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Popular Mechanics February 3, 2009 |
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How To: Pick A Lock We're not advocating picking locks for nefarious purposes, but if you ever find yourself locked out of your house, here's what you need to know to get back in. |
Wired February 2005 Charles Graeber |
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 February 17, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking |
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. |
Popular Mechanics October 2004 |
PM Tips & Hints How to prevent jammed locks and open stuffy drains. |
JavaWorld July 2000 Tarak Modi |
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... |