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Modifying Welding Pedal for a Miller 6-Pin Connector (ArcCaptain Pedal)

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 02:45:53 +0000

I bought a Miller 161 STH welder which has a little hand remote control included, and found it was more difficult to use. I wanted to try a welding pedal but the miller ones are much more expensive than other brands, like ArcCaptain, and I found the ArcCaptain one sturdy enough. This post is how you can adapt other welding pedals to the Miller 6-pin connector. I made a video about the process, this post has the reference material:

Fixing Ubiquiti Dream Machine (UDM) SE Hard Drive Not Detected Errors

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 02:34:43 +0000

My UDM SE can fit various hard drives. Ubiquiti have decided to have a cool tray the hard drive snaps into & slides into the UDM, which also means you have to have a very good fit. As it turns out, the fit may not be good enough without shimming the drive out!

I used a Seagate Skyhawk 4TB Video 3.5 Inch SATA (ST4000VXZ16/ST4000VX016) drive, which is reported as being compatible. In sliding the drive in there was no spin-up sound. I then tried rebooting it & repositioning the drive several times, it wasn’t clear if the hot-swap should work or not. But there was never a spin-up sound or a LED flashing on. Very annoying, especially if you are rebooting your houses internet for a “5 min project”!

Nova Scotia Embarrassment -

Tue, 17 Apr 2018 15:51:08 +0000

Just a quick post to have someone with the text. In case you aren’t aware, Nova Scotia’s “Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy” (FOIPOP) system allows you to request various information from the government, including information about yourself. When you request information about yourself it’s not redacted (i.e., your SIN and other information they have would be in the document), but when you request it about someone/something else information is redacted to protect their privacy. They were serving these documents using a system with URLs like “https://foipop.novascotia.ca/foia/views/_AttachmentDownload.jsp?attachmentRSN=1234”, where the last number was the document. Which is fine until they decided to use this for both the sensitive and non-sensitive one, with no log-in or password checks. To a point, these documents were automatically indexed by Google and other services, as they didn’t even put a ROBOTS.txt is seems. Evan D’Entremont has a great write-up, so I’ll just refer you there for details. While somebody downloaded documents they “weren’t supposed to”, and they are now claiming he is a hacker. Note most of the documents accessed were public, and there was no way to tell them apart based on URL (so it’s not even an attempt at hacking). The following is my open letter to the province regarding this silliness:

New Site Layout Live

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 01:24:26 +0000

For some time I’ve been planning on updating my website design. Ultimately I want to move towards more blog posts and less static pages, this is the result. This should help showing some of my projects and videos off a little easier. The old site will remain accessible at https://colinoflynn.com/oldsite as I haven’t migrated everything. In addition this means old links can easily be fixed by inserting ‘oldsite’ into them! I.e. if you have a link to https://colinoflynn.com/tiki-index.php?page=15dot4tools, just change it to https://colinoflynn.com/oldsite/tiki-index.php?page=15dot4tools and everything works! Let me know if anything breaks though, but in the mean-time I’ll be slowly trying to migrate additional content.

Splitting of NewAE & ColinOflynn.com

Tue, 28 Jan 2014 01:35:00 +0000

Since 2001 I’ve used NewAE.com as my personal domain. I’ve decided to instead move my personal content (blog, various wiki articles, etc) to ColinOFlynn.com. Any old links to NewAE.com will work by simply replacing ’newae.com’ with ‘colinoflynn.com’, as I’ve mirrored all (I think) the content. In the mean-time there will be a redirection page to inform you that NewAE.com will contain mostly some products I’m involved with, and instead you should head to ColinOFlynn.com for the old content.

Meet me Live, Site Updates, and Book Updates

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 23:05:00 +0000

If you will be in San Diego this coming Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday I encourage you to attend Smart Grid Security West (http://www.smartgridsecuritysummit.com/), where I’ll be discussing some of my work in wireless security. Hope to meet you there!

I added a link to one of my big new projects, a book about all these wireless networks. It’s called “IPv6 for the (Wireless) Masses”, and I hope the playful title will make you to believe that perhaps it will offer more than just regurgitated standards and information you can find elsewhere with a bit of Googling.

TikiWiki Upgrade

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:44:00 +0000

TikiWiki has just been upgraded, which might break a few things… let me know if you find any of those!

Articles Posted

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:45:35 +0000

As you may have noticed, some small changes to the site! Including this new blog as the main page I’m testing.

The ‘articles’ section of the site has finally been uploaded. This also includes my new article in this August’s Circuit Cellar.