Shacking up with Leopard: Apple's OS X Leopard hit the North American market one week ago this evening, prompting Tom Yager to swing by the Apple store, MacBook Pro in hand, then make a beeline for an isolation chamber (the local Holiday Inn) for an intensive evaluation. (Nothing gets between Yager and a new Mac OS.) While we wait for the resulting review, you can track his progress on Enterprise Mac. For the qu Shacking up with Leopard: Apple’s OS X Leopard hit the North American market one week ago this evening, prompting Tom Yager to swing by the Apple store, MacBook Pro in hand, then make a beeline for an isolation chamber (the local Holiday Inn) for an intensive evaluation. (Nothing gets between Yager and a new Mac OS.) While we wait for the resulting review, you can track his progress on Enterprise Mac. For the quick-and-dirty on what Leopard will mean to users, the best places to start are two of Tom’s recent posts to Ahead of the Curve, “Apple OS X Leopard: A beautiful upgrad” and Tom’s “Leopard: Not an OS, but a system you operate”. Small (and cheap) project management: If Microsoft Project is more than enough, free and open source OpenProj might be just enough. Curt “Dr. Gantt” Franklin takes the tidy project manager for a spin in SMB IT. Help your datacenter help itself: The self-checking and “phone home” features in many server and storage systems use the Axeda ServiceLink service-monitoring system. A new offering from Axeda, called ServiceLink for Datacenters, brings these remote access links under a central management portal — reducing the risk of data exposure, reports Storage Insider Mario Apicella. Welcome to Estonia: If you think your business is immune to the kind of massive distributed denial of service attack that shoved Estonia off of the Internet, think again, advises our Security Advisor, Roger Grimes. Technology Industry