Write zeroes to drive

If you have to send a hard drive somewhere for repair or dispose of it and you can still access it is sometimes needed to quickly clear off the data on the drive. One way to do this is format a drive and writing zeroes to it. In Vista or Windows 7 this is now…

Access 2010 SP1 crashes

This problem hit me today on my main working database after upgrading to Office 2010 SP1. To help out others I have post the text of a solution below as well as the link. Access 2010 SP1 – You receive random crashes in certain database or when opening the VBA window in those databases after…

EEEPC 701 issue with dcopserver

My wife has a original 4Gb Asus EEEPC. It has an issue periodically where it refuses to connect to our wireless network. It is an EEPC 701 running the original software and operating system. Its symptoms are not being able to do anything especially connect to a ethernet or wireless connection. It comes up with…