http://www.gangxinfc.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:45:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The $379 unit includes 512MB of RAM, an 8GB solid-state hard drive, a 3-cell battery, and Linpus Linux Lite OS. A $399 model bumps you up to 1GB of RAM, turns the SSD drive into a 120GB spinning hard drive, and switches the OS to Windows XP Home. Lastly, the ... http://www.gangxinfc.com/index.php/2010/09/04/aspire-one-netbook-acer-says-come-and-get-it/ Folks who are tapping into their tunes via the Yahoo Music Jukebox music player may find themselves at risk of allowing a malicious attacker into their computer, according to a security advisory issued Monday by Secunia. The "extremely critical" security vulnerabilities are found in Yahoo Music Jukebox version 2.2.2.056 ... http://www.gangxinfc.com/index.php/2010/08/30/security-flaws-found-in-yahoo-music-jukebox/ (Credit: Chord Electronics) (Credit: Chord Electronics) But that's not to say Chord doesn't also cater to the consumer high-end market. The CPA 3000 preamplifier and SPM 1050 power amplifier are the latest designs. When I was an audio salesman I sold Chord and I can tell you that even before I played the ... http://www.gangxinfc.com/index.php/2010/08/24/chord-electronics-heavy-metal-amplifiers-sound-as/ Coordinatr is a new events communication service that's been designed for creating spontaneous get-togethers among tight knit groups of friends. The setup is similar to MyPunchbowl and Crusher, with just a few form fields that need to be filled out to create an event. What makes the service particularly useful ... http://www.gangxinfc.com/index.php/2010/08/21/coordinatr-turns-small-parties-into-small-effort/ As Apple celebrated, Microsoft canceled the company picnic. As Apple announced results that beat expectations, Microsoft had its first ever year-over-year dip in sales . As Apple announced a billion app downloads, Microsoft gritted its molars with a view to finally shaking a little of the smugness from Apple's chops. So you ... http://www.gangxinfc.com/index.php/2010/08/21/are-apples-ads-really-better-than-microsofts/ commentary As I'm occasionally reminded, MySQL didn't start out as open source. In fact, MySQL's original license was very similar to what it is trying to achieve today: Free for noncommercial use, but not-so-free for commercial use. It didn't decide to go open source (GPL) until 1999. So for those of us ... http://www.gangxinfc.com/index.php/2010/08/21/back-to-the-future-for-mysql/ Research firm eMarketer has lowered its forecast for online ad spending due to the "foundering" economy and problems social networks are having attracting ad dollars. The firm now projects that 2008 online ad spending in the U.S. will be $25.8 billion, down slightly from the $27.5 billion it had forecast for ... http://www.gangxinfc.com/index.php/2010/08/21/emarketer-lowers-online-ad-spend-forecast/ Nikon D80(Credit: CNET Networks) Photography Bay seems to be cranking on its reputation as rumor central for the photography community. In addition to today's intimations about new Canon dSLRs, and a suggestion that Sony is discontinuing the DSLR-A700, the blog deconstructed a post on DPReview to hint at a new midrage ... http://www.gangxinfc.com/index.php/2010/08/21/new-nikon-dslrs-near/ 'Spore,' the new evolution game from Electronic Arts and 'SimCity' and 'The Sims' creator Will Wright, started with a series of small prototyping systems. (Credit: Electronic Arts/Maxis) Electronic Arts' much anticipated evolution game, Spore hits store shelves Sunday in North America, and for those that have been on the project since the ... http://www.gangxinfc.com/index.php/2010/08/21/behind-the-prototyping-of-spore/ I like long songs, but As Eliot Van Buskirk over on Listening Post reports, at least two separate writers have come to the conclusion that the perfect song is short. Two minutes and 42 seconds, to be exact--the length of "There She Goes" by The La's. Personally, I think "La La ... http://www.gangxinfc.com/index.php/2010/08/21/my-2-42-playlist/