Archive for April, 2006

The New “Your Copy of Windows is Not Genuine” Popup From Microsoft

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Is Bill Gates harassing you? Is he stalking you, inside your computer, telling you that “This copy of Windows is not genuine” with annoying little popup messages? Then you are not alone. This latest Microsoft stunt basically installs a virus, created by Microsoft, through Windows Auto Update. The WGA Virus will […]

PCI Express Replaces AGP 8X

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

PCI Express (not to be confused with PCI-X) is the replacement for both PCI and AGP. While the classic PCI Bus is based upon a parallel architecture, PCI Express is serial based, drastically reducing pin count. It is a point-to-point protocol much like AGP. Devices do not share bandwidth. PCI Express means X16 […]