Here in europe VW’s are perceived as being reliable thanks to good advertising, but for anyone who has owned a VW they will know they are far from it.

I always think of this when I see this car:

I remember reading something about this on Brian May’s website (yes, the lead guitaist from Queen!), back in 2009. A fan of his has said something very similar about collecting space dust from his swimming pool cover!

What’s the options available to delete data from a disk removed from a PC? I’ve a disk I removed from an old laptop that was then trashed, with a view of getting rid of the data at some point before disposing of. I don’t have the means to connect this drive up to another computer to erase. Can I do something to the…