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Non-locking (top) and locking (bottom) carabiners. Carabiners are closed metal clips with spring-loaded gates that are used as connectors between the rope and various devices. Modern carabiners are made from a lightweight but strong aluminum alloy that can withstand the load of a fall. Carabiners come in various shapes, with the asymmetric ...
PeerGuardian is a free and open source program developed by Phoenix Labs (software).It is capable of blocking incoming and outgoing connections based on IP blacklists.The aim of its use was to block peers on the same torrent download from any visibility of your own peer connection using IP lists.
Center is a standard carabiner rating. Using a carabiner to connect to a rope. A carabiner or karabiner (/ ˌ k ær ə ˈ b iː n ər /), [1] often shortened to biner or to crab, colloquially known as a (climbing) clip, is a specialized type of shackle, a metal loop with a spring-loaded gate [2] used to quickly and reversibly connect components, most notably in safety-critical systems.
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A carabinier (also sometimes spelled carabineer or carbineer) is in principle a soldier armed with a carbine, musket, or rifle, which became commonplace by the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe. [1] The word is derived from the identical French word carabinier. Historically, carabiniers were generally (but not always) horse soldiers.
The friction of the rope against the screw on the carabiner can cause the screw to undo and the carabiner to open, potentially weakening the strength of the carabiner, or allowing the rope to escape the carabiner completely. Therefore the hitch has to be tied correctly with the braking end on the opposite side of the carabiner than the gate is.
A maillon with the gate open and closed. A maillon, maillon rapide or quick link is a metal link, similar to a carabiner. [1] Maillons have a threaded sleeve which tightens over a thread, as opposed to a hinged gate like a carabiner, making them stronger, but more difficult to use. [1]
PeerBlock is a free and open-source personal firewall that blocks packets coming from, or going to, a maintained list of blacklisted hosts. [2] PeerBlock is the Windows successor to the software PeerGuardian (which is currently maintained only for Linux ). [ 3 ]