Sometimes you can find a good deal on used power supply from various vendors. In my case it was Cisco C3K-PWR-750WAC and RPS 2300. The problem is, that they don’t output any voltage until they are plugged into device. The question is, how to fool them into thinking they are plugged in.
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Chinese PoE extractor teardown
I needed to power some cameras using Power over Ethernet but they only supported 12V input, so I ordered some PoE extractors from ali. Here they are for your information.

Hacking Wowme U300Q Car Camera to Actually Work
I recently came across a Wowme U300Q car camera on an auction at aukro.cz . At first glance, it seemed like a promising piece of tech, but after trying to use it, I quickly realized there was a major flaw—it didn’t rotate recorded files and it was not just an issue with my piece, also reviews confirmed it as a global problem. For anyone familiar with dash cams, this is a critical issue because, without rotating files, the camera quickly runs out of storage and stops recording.
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Black thursday
Hi all!
Yesterday I suffered a great loss. All my data from this server went away… Unfortunately, I didn’t have recent full-backup of my blog so I needed to recreate some posts from WayBackMachine. That’s why most of pictures in posts from 2016 and 2017 is missing. Sorry for that. If you are interested in some exact pictures contact me, I can try to find them in my files.
I wish you more luck with your backups.
Bye!
ffmpeg compiled binaries for android
compiled from git master @28. 05. 2016: http://blog.danman.eu/wp-content/uploads/ffmpeg-android.tgz