With just a short time before Christmas, you may be wondering what little stocking stuffer you can get for your technically obsessed co-worker, computer savvy boss or geeky family member. It is not too late to pick out a gift that will stay out of the closet of useless gifts after the party's over. Timothy R. Butler looks at five gift ideas at OfB.biz. 
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While not a watershed technological advancement, Mandrake Move sounds interesting. Who carries a Live CD with him/herself everywhere, though? Good idea, but I don't think there's any market for them at USD 32.90. Also, how is this REALLY different from any other Live CD, except for maybe design focus?
Well Zambizzi, I kind of agree with you on why a pumpkin. If you look up the catagory in osnews you will find that the pumpkin relates to the "Humor" section. So, why humor.
3 of 5 links point to Radtech's website. Interesting.
To answer Dave, no, RadTech did not provide any financial support for this post nor are they a sponsor of OfB at all. Only two of the links should have gone there, the other was accidental -- I'm not sure how it ended up there.
I agree that a Christmas tree would be nice -- perhaps a whole Holiday category. Humor seems rather like an odd topic, although then again, this post didn't fit any particular category all that well. Maybe that has something to do with it.
I didn't know what icon to use. I guess we need a human interest/topical icon. Or at least a new humor icon. I'll work on it.
Well, you could have a pumpkin under a Christmas tree. :-)
I carry a bootable CD, but just for fun.
My data is WAY too big to fit into a USB keychain storage drive. Sure documents, spreadsheets, bookmarks, are OK and fit fine, but what about my MP3s, and larger documents.
The second thing is that live CDs are sloooooow. I've tried several distros (various KNOPPIX based distros, KNOPPIX itself, SLAX, and much more), but I've always been left needing more. IF you have a linux system at home which you can mirror on a CD and take it with you for those few times that you are on the road, then OK, but a fully featured system running off a CD at home and on the road, that is just not worth it.
I carry a recovery CD and a fully featured CD with me for repair/maintenance purposes as well (work related) and KNOPPIX (just for phun :-) )
