Podcast Episodes

2.5 Admins 129: 2.5aDMiNs.cOm

A “smart” lighting system goes wrong, mitigating a DNS attack, an unsatisfying update about Eufy cameras, why Jim and Allan won’t be active on Mastodon any time soon, and how we set up servers in a f…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

2.5 Admins 128: Some Value

Yet another reason to disable voicemail, why so many recent Macs end up as scrap, and setting up a mail server.

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Auditing for Storage Performance

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Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

2.5 Admins 127: Public Why-Fi

Why you should still use a VPN with public WiFi, who the new Xeons are aimed at, follow-up on trying to be your own bank, and separating legacy WiFi devices from modern ones.

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Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

2.5 Admins 126: Copy on Flight

A recent outage that grounded thousands of planes, correcting ZFS misreporting, the problem of fake SSDs on Amazon, and IP schemes vs internal DNS.

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FreeBSD vs Linux: Pac…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

2.5 Admins 125: Into Thin Eir

Two recent examples of backups not being properly tested, why the term “edge” is meaningless, we try not to laugh at the Bitcoin dev who lost all his magic beans, and directory services for mixed env…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

2.5 Admins 124: LastMigration

LastPass vaults are leaked, ChatGPT is coming to Bing, live migrations, and SSD vs spinning disk power usage.

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Klara is looking for sysadmins with ZFS experience, join Al…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

2.5 Admins 123: 4

It’s the last episode of the year so we look back at a couple of 2022 trends: the explosion of AI/ML, and big social media changes. Plus a quick-fire ZFS FAQ.

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Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

2.5 Admins 122: PayAsYouPay

Buying and renting features in Intel hardware that you’ve already bought, killer robots, a huge nuclear fusion breakthrough, and the pros and cons of parallel rsync jobs.

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Published on 3 years ago

2.5 Admins 121: 2PHA

Saving money by changing the CPU frequency governor on servers, Making unphishable 2FA phishable, phishing with Google Docs, monitoring at scale, and using ZFS with a single disk.

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Published on 3 years ago

2.5 Admins 120: Certified Malware

Security cameras that aren’t quite as secure as they claim, why it’s difficult to trust software “from Samsung”, getting started with offsite backups, and ZFS on root on Ubuntu.

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Published on 3 years ago