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How to Fix Stuck or Broken Garage Doors Power outage locks door... Cold weather stiffness... Sagging door... Door won't lock... Driveway stains... etc. |
This Old House
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A Lock on Style Even in an age of motion detectors and hidden cameras, an entry lockset is still your first line of defense against intruders. |
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Lock on to an alternate synchronization mechanism How to create a reader/writer lock for multithreaded programming. That synchronization mechanism is useful if you don't want to prevent other threads from simultaneously reading a shared resource yet still want to allow only one thread to modify the resource... |
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Remember Pearl Harbor? This Lock Breaker Does Marc Weber Tobias is a lock breaker. It's what he does for a living, the way he makes some of his money and much of his name. |
This Old House
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Popular Mechanics
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PM Tips & Hints How to prevent jammed locks and open stuffy drains. |
Fast Company
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BusinessWeek
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PC Magazine
February 17, 2004
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More on Locking Windows XP Quickly The article "Quickly Lock the Computer" offers a workaround for the fact that you can no longer lock a Windows XP machine by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del followed by Enter. Quite a few puzzled readers wrote in, because they found this key combination still works for them. |
This Old House
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Keys? Who Needs 'Em! High-tech locks open with the touch of a button |
PC Magazine
March 16, 2004
Craig Ellison |
The Key to Family Protection You can lock down your family computer with the Griffin Parental Internet ControlKey, a USB dongle. You can lock your computer or have it log off, shut down, go to sleep, or block Internet access when the key is removed. |
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The Lock Busters They've never met a padlock - or six-pin paracentric cylinder - they couldn't crack. Live, from the lock-picking championship of the world. |
PC Magazine
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Audible Alert for Caps Lock Is there a way to set up a sound alert in Windows XP when the Caps Lock key is pressed? |
The Motley Fool
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Bic Conquers Kryptonite A surprising design flaw causes the bike lock company to issue replacement locks for its well-regarded U-lock. |
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Five-Minute Fixes Rapid relief for balky PCs, stuck Windows, stalled networks, recalcitrant printers, and your other everyday computing hassles. |
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December 2005
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April 1, 2008 |
Master Lock Recalls Lock and Leash(TM) Locks Due to Violation of Lead Paint Standard Red surface paint on the locks contains excessive levels of lead, violating the federal lead paint standard. |
PC Magazine
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Make Shift Turn Off Caps Lock Make a quick change to your Registry, and your keyboard will behave just like a typewriter. |
Information Today
May 16, 2011 |
Laplink Rolls Out New Data Protection Software Laplink Software, Inc. announced the release of PC Lock, data encryption software with cloud management and high security encryption to protect sensitive data from hackers and thieves. |
