Anyone who plays video games knows that they are not cheap. To get around paying for them, many users take advantage of keygen software that is widely available for free on the Internet market and allows users to trick the game into thinking that they have the correct registration key. This type of theft does not stop at games and often extends to other types of software. Many people use these keygens but do not understand how they work. This article will explain what keygens are and how they work. Read More

The way that most services work under TCP/IP is that the server is configured to use a well known port number and the client connects from a random high port. Most of these well known ports are port numbers below 1,024. High ports are ports 1,024 or above. In the old days, ports below 1,024 were known as trusted ports. On Unix machines, only a user or process with root privileges is able to open an outgoing port below 1,024. With the proliferation of Windows and single-user Unix systems, the Read More

64-bit hardware is no longer the next, big thing coming to the computer industry. Over the past several years, the 64-bit hardware environment has seen significant penetration in the personal computer and server market as engineering challenges have been worked through to alleviate concerns by consumers and industry in having to spend significant monies to invest in the 64 bit hardware environment. When the first 64 bit computers were introduced, the common complaint was that there was little to no performance benefit seen by the end-user while the processors were Read More