Podcast Episodes

2.5 Admins 99: 00000000

A PSA about cheap hard drives, a major Internet outage in Canada, Apple’s new Lockdown Mode, and hostnames and DNS.

Plugs

From 0 to Bhyve on FreeBSD 13.1 

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PSA: buyer be…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

2.5 Admins 98: Lemonade

Picking the right switch, clustering Raspberry Pis, dynamic DNS, replacing a desktop PC, work-life balance, and more.

Kolide

Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux th…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

2.5 Admins 97: Gotta Go Fast

The best ways to test your Internet speed, more on filesystem caching, monitoring servers at scale, and more.

Plugs

ZFS Developer job description

Webinar: Open-source Virtualization: Getting Starte…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

2.5 Admins 96: Skunky Routers

Internet Explorer is dead, Cisco small business routers that need to be junked, antivirus on Linux servers, and you’ll never guess what Jim and Allan recommend for easily rolling back updates.

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Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

2.5 Admins 95: Opened in 45 Seconds

The finer points of allocating VM resources, Jim is annoyed with the browser situation on Ubuntu desktop, and when you should have passwords on your SSH keys.

Plugs

ZFS Developer job description

Su…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

2.5 Admins 94: Free IPv4s, Click Here!

Freeing up millions of IPv4 addresses, WSL 2 comes to Windows Server, why cert renewal should be automated, what to do with SMR drives, and more.

Plugs

ZFS Developer job description

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Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

2.5 Admins 93: Bhyve Mind

A Linux user tries out FreeBSD’s Bhyve hypervisor, choosing storage for a VMware ESXi server, and perfect use case for WireGuard.

Discussion

Jim has been testing Bhyve

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Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

2.5 Admins 92: End to End to End

End-to-end encryption is under threat again, Broadcom is buying VMware, prison time for an angry DBA, and backing up your photos with encryption.

Plugs

Evaluating FreeBSD-CURRENT for Production Use…

Published on 3 years, 7 months ago

2.5 Admins 91: The Deenis

More on Ubuntu mirrors and DNS, detecting advanced persistent threats, resilient backups, and open source Active Directory alternatives.

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bhyve: the BSD hypervisor

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Published on 3 years, 7 months ago

2.5 Admins 90: 2 Admins

Another attempt to replace passwords, trying to solve the problem of write-once storage, and the unusual ways we manage our invoices.

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EuroBSDCon CfP: September 15-18, 2022 in Vienna, Austria.…

Published on 3 years, 7 months ago