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Abloy lockpicking tool called vempele

My friend send me a link to shop which sold lockpicks for Abloy locks and it looked so familiar that I had to go thru my archive and found dravings about 20 years old lockpick for Abloy locks.

Abloy lockpicking tool called vempele

It’s strange that this tool isn’t familiar to every hacker who is interested [...]

Problems with TimeMachine and Airport Extreme with USB harddrive

I had iomega’s 2 terabyte external USB harddrive and I wanted to use that as a disk for my timemachine backups. When I plugged it in to my iMac it showed up to my desktop and I could do my timemachine backups to it like a dream.

Then I wanted to get rid of useless stuff [...]

NENGSHOU NS-468 Network and Phone Cable Tester

This time I’m testing NENGSHOU NS-468 from DealExtreme.

Nengshou ns-468

It feels and looks cheap. I guess that it’s not that bad since the tester is cheap (about $6.41 which is about 5 EUR).
Power/mode switch is probably cheapest possible switch what you can find.

However, the battery place is much bigger than normal 9V battery and [...]

Ventus GPS Route Logger G730 on Linux

You need one tool if you want to use Ventus GPS Logger G730 with Linux but if you want to get more out of your logger you might want to use gpsbabel too.
Most important one is skytraq-datalogger you can find on it’s website and second one is gpsbabel which you should example find using apt-get. [...]