hi there!
I see you've stumbled on to my humble home on the net, Drive:Activated. My name's Sam, I'm an ambitious and driven uni student, residing in Melbourne, Australia, wanting to make my mark on our world. This is my site, which is mainly just my blog and some other bits. There's no definite theme to my blog, just anything that interests me, and currently that's web trends, startups, ideas and cool stuff. Check it out, leave me a comment, click on 'Who is this?' to find out more about me, or drop me a line by clicking on 'Let's Talk'. Hope you enjoy it!

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I just had to fix a problem on a computer with Windows Live Messenger unexpectedly closing due to DEP violation, and guess what the problem was - Acer's eDataSecurity Management tool was doing something screwy with it. I gotta give them credit for providing a fix to the problem (problem and solution...
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Some TV station in the US (KCal 9 if that means anything to you) did a Today Tonight style investigation into computer repair fraud, segment below thanks to Youtube. All they did was unplug the IDE ribbon cable connecting the hard drive to your motherboard (the bit that co-ordinates all the functions...