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So the problem is to restore the mbr without having a windows xp cd. It is also possible that you windows xp cd has a problem with your sata device ;-).

What you need to do?

1. Download gparted: link
2. Put gparted on a usb stick, cdrom, whatever you prefer
3. Start the geparted and start "TestDisk"

Another month, another book, but still an apress one ;-).

This time, my eyes were focused on the operation system side. It is sad but after reading this book, i can still feel and see the echo of the wounded heart that oracle made by stopping the open solaris development in 2010.
This os reads and feals really well structured and "like a fresh breeze".

But back to the book. If have already index the book with my sticky markers and from now on i have quick access to the following content.

• CLI
• SMF
• ZFS
• Zones
• AMP
• SVN
• DTrace
• Links

The book contains 240 pages, so can not bring you in that deep. But it at least it tries, or tries to show you the great world of this operation system.
While playing around in a VM, it still feals that fresh and easy way. The os is well structured and by scratching at the top, all works well. And of course, just for DTrace, SMF and ZFS ... you should give open solaris a try.

The book itselfs is short and well written and shows you the represents you the main benefits of this os.
Because of the fact that open solaris is currently not in well progress, the price is more than cheap. And if not using open solaris, it is good to read about the concepts and the way the os is structured.

Owncloud wurde im Januar 2010 von KDE-Entwickler Frank Karlitschek beim Camp KDE 2010 initiiert. Er stellte fest, dass die meisten Anwender einen einfachen Zugang zu Anwendungen, eine Anbindung an soziale Netze und einen standortunabhängigen Zugriff auf Daten wünschen. Die Tradition, in der ein Anwender an lokale Daten gebunden ist, unterliegt mittlerweile einem Wandel, denn die Zahl der Rechner, die ein Anwender einsetzt, wird immer größer, auch durch Tablets, Netbooks und Mobiltelefone. [...] Kalender und Kontakte kann man im Web verwalten und mit Anwendungen wie Thunderbird, Kontact und Evolution nutzen. Außerdem kann Owncloud Speicher für andere Webanwendungen bereitstellen, wofür das Protokoll von unhosted.org verwendet wird. Mehrere Anwendungen können dieses Protokoll bereits nutzen, damit kann man auf proprietäre Anbieter von Web-Speicherplatz verzichten oder problemlos von diesen zu Owncloud wechseln.

Quelle

Nach einem kurzen Test wird ein erweiterter Test folgen. Wenn man auch nicht alles benötigt hat es einige grundlegende Funktionen, die interessant sind. Daneben scheint die PlugIn-Entwicklung einfach zu sein.

Try to mess around with the open solaris environment but don't want to boot up (or download) a fully fledged openindiana? A answer could be MilaX.

MilaX is a small size Live CD distribution which runs completely off a CD or a USB pendrive. It is based on OpenSolaris and includes its basic features.

Whats on wikipedia about MilaX?

MilaX is an OpenSolaris Live CD distro designed to fit on a business-card sized miniCD. x86 and SPARC versions are downloadable in bootable ISO 9660 and USB disk images. The Live CD can also be used to install the operating system to a hard disk through with ZFS-boot support. MilaX can be successfully loaded in Vmware, Qemu and VirtualBox. Still small, it features light applications such as JWM, Beaver, Urxvt, Vim, Sylpheed, Midnight Commander, Midori, XMMS, ePDFView, VNC viewer, Rdesktop, Conky. By installing the SVR4 and IPS add-ons, you can basically convert MilaX into OpenSolaris. MilaX booted into JWM Desktop in about ~14 seconds on SSD drive.

The whole cool stuff is include like:

• DTrace
• IPMP
• SMF
• snoop
• Crossbow
• Solaris Cluster
• ZFS
• and more...