TestDisk is OpenSource software and is licensed under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).
TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.
TestDisk can
Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
Fix FAT tables
Rebuild NTFS boot sector
Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
Fix MFT using MFT mirror
Locate ext2/ext3 Backup SuperBlock
Undelete files from FAT filesystem
Copy files from deleted FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3 partitions.
TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery.
TestDisk can find lost partitions for all of these file systems:
BeFS ( BeOS )
BSD disklabel ( FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD )
CramFS, Compressed File System
DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
HFS, HFS+ and HFSX, Hierarchical File System
JFS, IBM's Journaled File System
Linux ext2 and ext3
Linux LUKS encrypted partition
Linux RAID md 0.9/1.0/1.1/1.2
RAID 1: mirroring
RAID 4: striped array with parity device
RAID 5: striped array with distributed parity information
RAID 6: striped array with distributed dual redundancy information
Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2)
LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager
Mac partition map
Novell Storage Services NSS
NTFS ( Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 )
ReiserFS 3.5, 3.6 and 4
Sun Solaris i386 disklabel
Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/...)
XFS, SGI's Journaled File System
Url:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
I am searching for hotmail pop3 access but found they have disabled it. :(
Only solution are to use OutLoook Connector with Outlook to browse your emails on hotmail.
Check out this url for more info:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102218231033.aspx?pid=CH100622151033
For those who are interested in open source development, there is a 5 day seminar at Portland, Oregon, USA. Join over 2,500 open source developers, hackers, experts, IT managers, and users at OSCON 2008. This year's convention will include 40 tutorials that go deep into open source technology and over 400 sessions focusing on Administration, Business, Databases, Emerging Topics, Java, Linux, Mobile, People, Perl, PHP, Programming, Python, Ruby, Security, Web Applications, and much more. This event is organised by Oreilly.
Here is the schedule.
http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/grid
Here is the official web site.
http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/content/home
I have been checking my emails lately after my NS reservist. Among one of my spam emails, I manage to find a useful url for optimising cursors within stored procedures in SQL Server.
Yes we all know that cursors is slow but this guy manage to optimise them.
Read more:
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/hugo_kornelis/archive/2007/11/21/curious-cursor-optimization-options.aspx
Amazon has come up with kindle , however, this set does not work in singapore becos the wireless book service is not available in singapore.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FI73MA/ref=sa_menu_kdp4?pf_rd_p=328655101&pf_rd_s=left-nav-1&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=507846&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0KXSN65GMW3H7FJJX4GC
Sony has come up with an e-reader for ebooks and this works in local context.
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?storeId=10151&mpe_id=1908904905&identifier=S_BrandShowcase_Reader
so what is next? A lot of similar products but belongs to different company.