breaking my disk

ok
this week special is about bad luck!
what if my file system would corrupt and I forgot (or even worse did not schedule) a back up of my beloved data?
A good tool in such a case may be Testdisk, freeware able to recover lost partitions or file systems.
After downloading and running the program, by choosing Analyze you may select the partition no more recognized by the file system; then with the commands Proceed, Intel, Advanced, Boot and BackUp BS you will be able to recover the backup boot sector.
If also the Backup BS is corrupted you may try the command Rebuild Bs.
If also this case fails, well this other site offers a good choice of talismans against bad luck!

Other uses of TestDisk are described at this link: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Data_Recovery_Examples

free icons

ok. This is not much database or patent related... but who does not need some free icons for making nicer his beloved db oreinted applicantion?
Here you can find some good websites for downloading sets of icons for free...


http://www.freeiconsdownload.com/index.html  --> only PNG format
http://www.freeiconsweb.com/free_icons.html --> very very nice!
http://www.iconarchive.com/links/icon-tools.html --> icon tools (editors, creators, converters...)