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2.5 Admins
2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every week we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
Episodes
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2.5 Admins 83: Solid State Bathtubs
SSD reliability, a huge potential amplification DDoS attack, and learning how a mail server works. Plugs Webinar: Improving Recovery Objectives with OpenZFS…
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2.5 Admins 82: Oil, Gold, and Firstborn
Our concerns about Google’s latest acquisition, the technical implications of the sanctions on Russia, more on VPNs and filesystem replacements, and…
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2.5 Admins 81: Don’t Pay
How not to solve some of the problems with filesystems, why backups are only part of defending your data, and Allan finally tells us the difference between…
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2.5 Admins 80: 100 Emoji
Browser version numbers might break websites, Samsung’s bad crypto implementation, more on Mazda and Caddy, the FreeBSD init system, and keeping VMs in…
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2.5 Admins 79: Flex your disks
Maintaining data long-term, Chrome OS comes to generic PCs, and how to detect intrusions and malware on servers and networks. Plugs The FreeBSD Boot Process…
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2.5 Admins 78: MAZDA~1.BMP
Why Arm was never likely to be acquired by Nvidia, an expensive bug in Mazda cars, and how there isn’t always a technical solution to a policy problem…
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2.5 Admins 77: The Joe Ressington Experience
What the recent Spotify controversy means for open podcasting standards, why young people increasingly don’t understand the concept of a hierarchical…
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2.5 Admins 76: Horses for Courses
The pain of updating Windows, FreeBSD vs Linux, and getting started with ZFS. Plugs FreeBSD Periodic Scripts Support us on patreon News/discussion Microsoft…
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2.5 Admins 75: Burning Fiber
Allan has a recent war story for us, Microsoft blocked email from Linode, maximizing performance in a large capacity storage server, and more. Plugs Cluster…
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2.5 Admins 74: Virtual Pointless Network
A potential new European recursive DNS, why VPNs aren’t the silver bullet some people think they are, and how we set up new systems from scratch. Plugs…
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2.5 Admins 73: QR Choad
A novel approach to an old scam, your feedback about web servers and ransomware, and maintaining old databases. Plugs Packet Scheduling with Dummynet and…
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2.5 Admins 72: Email Cartel
Microsoft suffers an embarrassment with Exchange, why it’s so hard to host your own email, and the easiest and safest way to manage your backups. Plugs…
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2.5 Admins 71: Recover Calmly
Why ransomware isn’t really an infosec problem, how some open source work Allan helped with saved a company millions of dollars, your feedback, and more…
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2.5 Admins 70: Xmas AMA
It’s our holiday AMA episode. We answered your questions about hobbies, TV resolutions, living in the moment, and the biggest screw-ups we’ve…
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2.5 Admins 69: Nice
A huge vulnerability in a Java logging library, ZFS on AWS disappoints, the fastest web servers for static sites, the importance of certs, and more. Plugs…
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2.5 Admins 68: Shuckchain
A mystery in the Tor network, whether blockchain has any real-world value, configuring passwords with Ansible, and burning in new disks. With guest host Gary…
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2.5 Admins 67: Haitch
An insight into the massive scale of Google’s infrastructure, Allan and Jim refuse to accept that crypto now means cryptocurrency (and confuse Latin and…
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2.5 Admins 66: Lack of Entropy
Tesla owners locked out of their cars, a Linux side-channel attack that enables DNS cache poisoning, why Jim doesn’t use Proxmox, and accessing KVM hosts…
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2.5 Admins 65: Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten
How some Swedish parents tried to take control of their kids’ education app, why you shouldn’t try to add magsafe to your phone, introducing the…
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2.5 Admins 64: Augmented Dystopia
Why the metaverse sounds terrible, Alder Lake benchmarks, revoking SSH keys, remote management of Windows machines, and more. Plugs Looking towards the future…
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2.5 Admins 63: Unlocking the Future
The Oculus Go is opened up, a potential addition to HTTPS, Intel’s new Alder Lake CPUs, testing ZFS backups, virtualising a firewall, and more. Plugs…
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2.5 Admins 62: Top Notch
The stupid notch on the new Macs, why Windows 11 had performance issues with AMD CPUs, why hibernation isn’t really a thing, and more. Plugs OpenZFS…
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2.5 Admins 61: Alice and Bob
How not to steal and sell sensitive information, why ISPs shouldn’t try to sue Netflix, and the best way to set up wireless access points. Plugs Webinar…
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2.5 Admins 60: Butter Fingers
How Facebook’s services managed to go down for 6 hours, Windows Subsystem for Linux is now easier than ever to set up, and expanding a large capacity…
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2.5 Admins 59: Megaphone in the Middle
Why RISC-V looks promising for the future, how the web switched to HTTPS by default, an interesting DoS method, and how mitigating ssh attacks has changed over…
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2.5 Admins 58: Autocompromised
A pretty serious flaw with Autodiscover that leaks email credentials, why Btrfs sucks for more than one disk, and the best hardware for a low-powered NAS…
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2.5 Admins 57: Spherical Chickens
What exactly constitutes WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption, your feedback about time-based YouTube blocking, Optane in servers, and what sysadmins…
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2.5 Admins 56: OMIGOD root
Yet another Azure vulnerability, Anonymous dumps a huge Epik leak, running a desktop in a VM, SSH keys on a Yubikey, and ZFS send to TrueNAS. Plugs…
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2.5 Admins 55: WiFi in the Woods
A surprisingly cheap and easy way to connect 2 buildings wirelessly, your feedback about Samba, and the realities of parental Internet controls. Plugs Choosing…
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2.5 Admins 54: Bait and Switch
SSD manufacturers quietly switching out components, 20TB non-SMR HDDs, the surprising side effects of killing the landline, ZFS snapshots when space is…
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2.5 Admins 53: Unexpected Root
How getting root might be easier for attackers than you think, what a new OS can teach us about open source development, and why you probably shouldn’t…
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2.5 Admins 52: Notflix
Netflix blocking residential IPs, Intel’s upcoming discrete graphics cards, and the finer points of connecting disks to a RAID controller. Plugs…
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2.5 Admins 51: Goodbye LISA
Why a large sysadmin conference shut down and what it means, roaming between multiple wireless access points, sending ZFS snapshots to the cloud, best practice…
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2.5 Admins 50: Optimal Airtime
Huge improvements for WireGuard on Windows, and a brief update on the Framework Laptop. Plus why RAID is not a backup, when to use bare metal vs VMs, choosing…
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2.5 Admins 49: Cuddle the Pegasus
Why the Pegasus spyware isn’t really anything new, a Windows vulnerability sends Jim and Allan down memory lane, what to do with old hard disks, your…
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2.5 Admins 48: PR Problem
Jim’s hands-on with the modular and upgradeable Framework laptop, the details of Muse Group’s latest controversy, and when backing up to a Pi in…
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2.5 Admins 47: ZFS Rules, LTO Drools
The current and future states of system performance across the whole stack, and backing up to tapes. Plus your feedback about clustered filesystems, a ZFS…
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2.5 Admins 46: Not Actively Supported
Windows 11 has been announced but some key details are still unknown, why you shouldn’t connect consumer-grade network storage devices to the Internet…
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2.5 Admins 45: Weapons grade insecurity
Potentially serious vulnerabilities in military systems, a new ZFS feature that’s mostly for home users, and IPv6 on your LAN. Plugs FreeBSD Performance…
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2.5 Admins 44: ZF yes!
Supply chain problems causing a rise in counterfeit chips, busting the myth about ZFS and RAM, gold VM images, and x86 routers. Plugs Introduction to ZFS…
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2.5 Admins 43: Find my bandwidth
A potential order of magnitude increase in HDD sizes, Amazon Sidewalk, dying SSDs, planning new systems, ssh vs VPN logins, and more. Plugs History of ZFS…
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2.5 Admins 42: Guru Medication
Fastly’s recent outage, how attackers probably breached the Colonial Pipeline’s network, crypto mining in anti-virus software, and setting up a box…
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2.5 Admins 41: Swiss cheese security
Synology and Btrfs, backing up low-end Linux laptops, vulnerability management, FreeBSD hypervisors, and more. Plugs Building Customized FreeBSD Images Support…
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2.5 Admins 40: Crown Prince of Freenode
The complex tale of the recent IRC drama, Microsoft kills Windows 10X, and why we think a WordPress site was pwned. News Microsoft puts Windows 10X variant on…
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2.5 Admins 39: Cacophony of starts
Testing failing disks and why they don’t work over a certain altitude, and your feedback about ZFS snapshots, authentication, community discussion…
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2.5 Admins 38: Wires FTW
The importance of VPNs when using Wi-Fi, the complexities of chip node size, and whether appliance NAS devices make any sense. Plugs Getting the most out of…
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2.5 Admins 37: Exchanging shells
Authorities trying to remove malware from people’s servers, turning your sysadmin hobby into a career, cloud backups, config management, and more. Plugs…
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2.5 Admins 36: Minnesota shower
GUI Linux apps on Windows, Linux kernel development is pen-tested, ZFS and Docker, and converting a Windows installation to a VM. Plugs FreeBSD IOStat…
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2.5 Admins 35: More free consulting
We answer a bunch of your questions about server hardening, managing ZFS snapshots, Docusign, SSL certs in air-gapped networks, and automating updates. Plugs…
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2.5 Admins 34: Free consulting
We answer a bunch of your questions about firewalls, best practices for backups, learning ZFS, QoS, SSH key management, backing up Google Drive, and more…
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2.5 Admins 33: Delete C:
Thousands of students learn about backups the hard way, why securing all of DNS isn’t practical, and how to protect Internet-facing services running at…
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2.5 Admins 32: Unifail
Our first look at the next generation of Arm, alarming claims about a recent Ubiquiti breach, and setting up a FreeBSD file server. Plugs Customizing the…
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2.5 Admins 31: HD bit flips
How we’ll get to 100TB hard disks by the end of the decade, the potential dangers of flipped bits in network traffic, how to organize multiple copies of…
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2.5 Admins 30: Hot storage
The OVH data center fire and related tales, drama with WireGuard in FreeBSD, why you should plug your flash drives in regularly, and more. News OVH data centre…
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2.5 Admins 29: Supply pain
Why it’s so hard to build a PC these days, finding help for ZFS issues, getting started with a homebrew router, and more. Plugs The history of ARM and…
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2.5 Admins 28: Cluster fsck
Why hard disks will be around for ever, bad news for VR, slowdown from disk I/O, and when clustering isn’t necessarily the best solution. Plugs Register…
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2.5 Admins 27: Learning to say no
Where we draw the line when supporting friends and family, monitoring SSL certs, ZFS on single drives, Chromium finally cleans up its act, and more in this…
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2.5 Admins 26: RISCy acquisition
Bad news for LastPass users, why Nvidia probably won’t buy Arm, what happens to our servers if we disappear, and using the cloud to avoid bottlenecks…
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2.5 Admins 25: Fiat gaming
Stadia and game streaming, Bitcoin and Linux quirks in your feedback, and building a home server for more than just storage. Plugs Simple and Secure VPN in…
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2.5 Admins 24: Stonk amplification
Reddit trolls Wall Street, bad news for Parler’s new host, why you should learn iptables, and backing up S3-compatible buckets. Plugs History of FreeBSD…