Podcast Episodes

2.5 Admins 149: Three Year Warning

WD disks “warning” that they have been running for 3 years, a modern replacement for IMAP that no one seems to be using, the potential issues that arise when PC games require an SSD to run, alternati…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

2.5 Admins 148: API Ultra 7 Pro for Workstations

Reddit fails to see where its true value lies, Intel makes its consumer CPU lines confusing, and Microsoft’s “next generation” filesystem.

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Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

2.5 Admins 147: EPYC Fail

Sloppy practises by Gigabyte reveal one of the problems with UEFI, why Slack refuses to implement end to end encryption, a familiar bug ruins people’s uptime, and XFS vs ext4.

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Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

2.5 Admins 146: VisionForge

We are unimpressed by Apple’s new headset, a particularly bountiful watering hole attack, misdirection from the AI industry, and connecting hard disks via a PCIe card.

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Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

2.5 Admins 145: Bad Standards

An unfixable bug shines a light on a fundamental issue with Windows, why M.2 is a terrible connector for SSDs, the pros and cons of 2.4Ghz Wi-Fi, and the state of ZFS encryption.

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Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

2.5 Admins 144: AMRadio.zip

Google’s new TLDs are silly but not as dangerous as some people think, whether we should cling on to AM radio, Microsoft scans password-protected zip files, and how to assess open source software for…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

2.5 Admins 143: Even Stars Die

Adobe’s vague threats show why open source is often the pragmatic choice, Russians craft a poor man’s ransomware with WinRAR, Chrome drops the padlock icon, Amazon pulls a Google, and using a keyfile…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

2.5 Admins 142: Intel Key Party

Google’s attempt to replace passwords with keys, why Jim thinks IBM is dragging Red Hat in the wrong direction, Intel’s rudimentary error that breaks a security feature, and protecting your files fro…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

2.5 Admins 141: Sysadmin Hunt

What the challenge of building a web browser from scratch tells us about the state of the modern web, why some people are frying their AMD CPUs, more on basic password managers and regularly powercyl…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

2.5 Admins 140: /dev/nullvad

How not to practice responsible disclosure, Mulvad proves that its claims stand up, whether to be worried about public phone chargers, an “anti-ransomware” SSD, and monitoring ZFS with Zabbix.

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Published on 2 years, 7 months ago