Podcast Episodes

2.5 Admins 179: Y2K NotOK

Y2K was a pretty serious problem and 2038 is coming soon, work on Arm servers is improving the experience on the desktop, and what to do with an old unsupported Synology NAS.

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Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

2.5 Admins 178: LOTS of Storage

Hard drives are pretty much an enterprise product now, GitHub’s malware problem, and spreading services across different machines and VMs to keep downtime to a minimum.

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Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

2.5 Admins 177: Don’t Pay the Dane

Why the problems with open source licenses aren’t quite as easy to fix as some people think, the reasons you should never pay ransomware gangs, and running a Nagios distro on a Raspberry Pi.

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Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

2.5 Admins 176: Sudo Cognito

What does “incognito mode” in Chrome actually mean and whether documenting browser standards in code is a good idea, the serious implications of a fun story about messing with a ChatGPT instance, and…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

2.5 Admins 175: Guess Who’s Listening

Twitch pulls out of Korea thanks to the opposite of Net Neutrality, it’s not clear to what extent smart devices are listening to your conversations, more on water usage in data centers, and our thoug…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

2.5 Admins 174: Guess Who’s Watching

What you need to know about the recent SSH vulnerability, yet another privacy issue with cloud-connected security cameras, why it’s difficult to get to the bottom of an obscure ZFS encryption bug, an…

Published on 2 years ago

2.5 Admins 173: Ghost Files

Google Drive client users lost months of files, a feature of UEFI that has left millions of computers potentially vulnerable to persistent malware, and why you probably shouldn’t buy cheap resold vol…

Published on 2 years ago

2.5 Admins 172: HOLEy ZFS

Jim and Allan break down the details of the recent ZFS data corruption bug, and give their tips for managing a fleet of 40+ servers.

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Published on 2 years ago

2.5 Admins 171: RSA PSA

Why a small island nation’s top level domain ended up with such a terrible reputation, an ssh vulnerability that’s not as scary as it sounds, whether software can be “finished”, and using powerline o…

Published on 2 years ago

2.5 Admins 170: Uninterruptible WiFi

Why and how Allan installed a set of new Power over Ethernet wireless access points, and our hardware recommendations for a media server and NAS in one.

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Published on 2 years, 1 month ago