Podcast Episodes

2.5 Admins 269: End of 10?

Windows 10 is officially end of life but Microsoft extends free updates for Windows 10 in Europe, it gets even harder to use a local account in Windows 11, and whether repurposing old server hardware…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

2.5 Admins 268: The Salter Philosophy

A Red Hat breach leads to a leak of lots of sensitive customer data, Synology backs down on allowing third-party drives but they are removing features, and managing ZFS properties during replication.…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 267: Hoarding Cache

The weird errors you see when your root partition is full, TikTok uses a lot of bandwidth by preloading videos, and dealing with a ZFS pool that won’t import.

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Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 266: Jiggawatts of Hallucinations

Intel and Nvidia are teaming up for multiple reasons, Open AI are planning to build data centers and use a ludicrous amount of power, LLM hallucinations aren’t going away, and how long we keep server…

Published on 3 months ago

2.5 Admins 265: Storage Lies

Joe set up a FreeBSD box to serve as a replication target and it was surprisingly straightforward, if rather different from Linux. Plus the lies that storage tells us.

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Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

2.5 Admins 264: A Question of Trust

Matrix shows how painful enormous databases can be to restore, why the certificate authority system doesn’t seem to make sense in 2025, a hosting provider thinks they are better than Cloudflare at bl…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 263: Seagate RAID

McDonald’s IT systems seem to be riddled with 90s-style coding errors, we finally know where the fraudulent hard drives came from, when IT workers go rogue, and ZFS on root without using FreeBSD or U…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 262: It’s About Control

Google is planning to assert even more control over which Android apps can be installed, the US government takes a 10% stake in Intel, and minimum networking speeds in homes and offices.

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Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 261: Worms and Baskets

Why you can’t rely on a single cloud provider, Jim discovers AI that spreads itself like a worm, and configuring all-flash arrays.

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Published on 4 months ago

2.5 Admins 260: Watery Email

AMD’s recent mobile-class processors impress us with their power to performance ratio, the UK government suggests a preposterous way to save water, setting up verified boot with snapshots, and the be…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago