Archive for December, 2008

Deleting data before donating

Posted: December 24, 2008 in Technology

This was so easy I felt obliged to blog it. Under our house rule ‘not used it in a year, so it has to go’, our old P4 laptop is being donated. It held old tax records, Microsoft Money files etc which had to be deleted first. One free and simple technique is Boot and Nuke. I [...]

IIS7 Gotcha – COM Error 80040154

Posted: December 16, 2008 in ASP.Net MVC

We have all seen the 80040154 COM error. Normally the solution is to run regsvr32 on the com dll so it is registered on the machine. “System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0×80040154): Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {D1CB0D81-7D2B-4064-9AC7-D0D88DEC3D16} failed due to the following error: 80040154.” Of course regsvr32 was the first thing I did, but [...]