Podcast Episodes

2.5 Admins 109: Selling Technical Debt

Why solving network congestion issues is so difficult, our thoughts on DNS privacy, an unwise use case for 32-bit Linux, and PoE injectors vs switches.

Discussion

The Math Proves It—Network Congest…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

2.5 Admins 108: dQw4w9WgXcQ

Why modern interfaces suck, the reasons we don’t recommend Cloudflare, and backups for beginners.

With guest host Gary from Linux Downtime (and Pidgin).

News/discussion

Blocking Kiwifarms

The moder…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

2.5 Admins 107: s/smart//g

Why the W3C is struggling to move to HTTPS by default and follow-up on Certbot, monitoring, and Silverlight. Plus buying enterprise switches.

News/discussion

W3C’s planned transition to HTTPS stymi…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

2.5 Admins 106: Wrap Your Deenis

A big change is coming to Windows licensing for VMs, Google changes the rules around VPNs on Android, and solving a DoH problem.

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EuroBSDCon Sept 15-18 Vienna, Austria – …

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

2.5 Admins 105: Old Men Yell at Cloud

The pros and cons of  using email aliases, an Internet hero scratches his own itch, Jim and Allan yell at the cloud, and choosing a firewall distro.

News/discussion

The Security Pros and Cons of Us…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

2.5 Admins 104: Bathtub Map

Amazon is acquiring lots of home floor plans, Google will let politicians spam its Gmail users, burning in new drives, and ZFS scrub best practises.

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Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

2.5 Admins 103: AAD the SQL

Good and bad from Meta/Facebook, data centres in London are hogging all the power, separating databases from applications, picking a DB, and more.

With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.

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Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

2.5 Admins 102: Admins After Dark

The consequences of accrued technical debt and how to avoid it, a serious security issue in Confluence, Proxmox’s poor ZFS config, and more.

With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.

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Suppor…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

2.5 Admins 101: Atomic Database

Jim and Allan’s thoughts on GitHub Copilot, why you can’t take the bar exam on modern Intel hardware, and database VM snapshot consistency.

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Contributing to Open Source: Beyond Software Develo…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

2.5 Admins 100: 💯

More on abandoned hardware, central auth, Internet Explorer, Antivirus, monitoring, speed testing, and more.

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Published on 3 years, 5 months ago