Podcast Episodes

2.5 Admins 159: Dirty Install

The user experience on fresh installations of Windows and Edge is terrible and we get to the bottom of why. Unfortunately the reason isn’t exclusive to Microsoft’s offerings – it’s a pattern that we’…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

2.5 Admins 158: It Doesn’t Go to 10

Dropbox once again proves that there is no such thing as “unlimited” anything, Intel isn’t going to support WiFi 7 on Windows 10 (but it doesn’t really matter), managing ssh keys, setting up data sto…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

2.5 Admins 157: Lincoln’s HDD

CNET’s SEO attempts once again show that nothing lasts forever, why the reports of the death of the mechanical hard drive are greatly exaggerated, and home-made IPMI on the cheap.

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Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

2.5 Admins 156: SanDisk Extreme Fail

Why fully remote work is on the wane as Zoom drags employees back to the office and Bluejeans is shut down, the Sandisk SSDs that keep failing, and how and why you should use ECC RAM in your home ser…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

2.5 Admins 155: Dialup Memories

Allan and Jim reminisce about the early days of connecting to the Internet, and what inspired them to become sysadmins in the first place. Plus recovering old versions of files, and an exciting annou…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

2.5 Admins 154: 8.8.8.8.8.8

Why the increasing trend of charging for public IPv4 addresses won’t change much, Google trials restricting its employees’ Internet access, and operating systems uploading firmware to devices at boot…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

2.5 Admins 153: Robots.nope

Updating the robots.txt standard for the AI era, the US government implements an IoT certification and labeling system, and the issues with fully encrypting a server.

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Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

2.5 Admins 152: AirTags Use CR2032 Batteries

Intel is giving up on NUCs and Asus is taking over the line, millions of classified US military emails are going to a Russian ally thanks to a common typo, and monitoring SSDs.

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Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

2.5 Admins 151: Practical ZFS

Setting up a self-hosted alternative, what counts as a “removable” battery, and backing up a Windows machine to ZFS.

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Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceabl…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

2.5 Admins 150: Red Hate

Red Hat wants to limit redistribution of RHEL source code. We discuss their history with CentOS and the likely knock-on effects of taking direct aim at its customers’ GPL rights. Plus browsers doing …

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago