Podcast Episodes

2.5 Admins 119: Six Month Scrub

The risks of taking your laptop to a repair shop, why DNS has become concentrated to just a few providers, and powering down drives periodically.

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Virtualization Showdown…

Published on 3 years ago

2.5 Admins 118: Chaos Emerald Wealth

Why the Twitter infrastructure is creaking, Jim’s experiences of the Ubuntu Summit, changing VM resources without rebooting, and more.

News/discussion

Why Twitter will fail shortly

Twitter mayhem, …

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

2.5 Admins 117: Local Burner

Microsoft’s half-baked Arm machine, why it’s a bad idea to go to the World Cup in Qatar, using WireGuard to punch through double NAT, and the best filesystem for removable storage. With guest host Al…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

2.5 Admins 116: Worst Billionaire

Android’s controversial VPN settings, the deepfake audio arms race, the Metaverse is even worse than we thought, and why you shouldn’t use external cables for server storage. With guest host Alex Kre…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

2.5 Admins 115: Key Party

Password spray attacks, the value of certifications vs actual experience, and the best VPN strategy.

News/discussion

Use Authentication Policies to Fight Password Spray Attacks

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Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

2.5 Admins 114: RAID WTF

An impressive AI pretends to be Linux, Jim gets angry about a RAIDZ calculator, and using a laptop as a server.

News/discussion

We interviewed Linux OS through an AI bot to discover its secrets

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Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

2.5 Admins 113: Eggs and Baskets

Traditional vs modern backup methods, hiding malware inside innocent-looking files, and power loss protection in SSDs.

News/discussion

Steganography alert: Backdoor spyware stashed in Microsoft log…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

2.5 Admins 112: Reuse > Recycle

A drone-delivered exploit system, why companies destroy perfectly good hardware, and pulling backups from a Windows machine.

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iX and Klara – The Open Source Era is Upon U…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

2.5 Admins 111: The Freezer Trick

SSDs are probably more reliable than spinning hard drives, how much RAM you actually need, Cloudflare alternatives, sudo password security, and more.

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the History of Pack…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

2.5 Admins 110: Border Gateway Currency

How a BGP hijack facilitated the theft of $235k worth of crypto, why we aren’t too excited about Cloudflare’s new CAPTCHA, and how to configure ZFS on Proxmox.

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Deploying…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago