Test Center Tracker: Trick or Treat?

If you have never tried your hand at carving a pumpkin read How Stuff Works step by step instructions on how to make the best, I mean the scariest, Halloween pumpkin. I’m still trying to find instructions on how to make a presidential debate less scary but no luck so far.

Linux as a sidekick? Back to our track, er.. tracker, there is much to choose from and nothing scary in our Halloween-day produce.

Doug Dineley opens the candy bag with the review of an intriguing Linux gizmo with a funny name, Yoggie Pico Pro. However, there is nothing laughable about this USB key sized Linux machine that unloads the burden of virus scanning and firewalling from your laptop and also makes centralized management easier.

Why not use Linux directly on your laptop, you ask? We’ll save that question for another day, troublemaker!

Too good to let go? Yes that’s what Tom Yager is reporting while taking one of his infrequent breaks from a newly contracted addiction to Leopard.

Of course Tom is not at the zoo, instead he’s savoring Apple’s latest OS version in every detail. Better read his impressions now, because Tom is so captivated by his Leopard petting that we may not hear from him for a long time.

Watch your backup What a better day than Halloween to evoke the scary ghost of data loss? Sean Gallagher is quick to remind us that the antidote for that poison is plain simple backup. We know this already? Then, pray, why people still loose data, as Sean reports in Enterprise Windows?

That’s all the treats I have for today but if you, like me, can’t resist gulping “just one more candy” here is a a trick or two that could help keeping your post-Halloween sugar and chocolate intake low.