I am a Radio Frequency (RF) LabVIEW/Software engineer with over 10 years of LabVIEW application and software development. I focus on both software and hardware with a bit of a talent in software. I have worked at a variety of companies in a variety of locations as both a full-time employee and a contractor. This website is a portfolio of my work and various other things I’ve collected over the years. I hope you will find it interesting.
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The disposable “survival” laptop
I’m in a program right now for therapy for my health, and I thought I would write about laptops today. In particular, nobody really talks much about cheap technology except for nostalgia purposes or because they need to for a logistics reason (so to speak) because of legacy hardware that needs to be supported for… Read more…
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A note on securing Webmin
Webmin by default allows root access to a system, and by default allows terminal access to the root user. Care should be taken to properly setup Webmin to disable the root user. Enable Two-Factor Authentication TOTP authentication can be enabled without installing any extra modules. Enable it by allowing TOTP Authentication in the Webmin configuration.… Read more…
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Removing index.php from WordPress URLs with nginx
Since I use nginx and varnish with WordPress (and lighttpd as the webserver), I was interested in using nginx to remove the index.php “directory” that is added to WordPress URLs. Perhaps this can be disabled with a more appropriate WordPress configuration, however since I didn’t want to mess with that, I did it myself. The… Read more…