Podcast Episodes

2.5 Admins 89: Warm Storage

How long optical disks last and why cold storage isn’t usually worth it, VM security, more thoughts on crypto nonsense, and more.

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Learning the Fundamentals of the FreeBSD Shell

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Published on 3 years, 7 months ago

2.5 Admins 88: Great Scott

Musk buys Twitter, Ubuntu’s ZFS on root snapshot tool is put on the back burner, and setting up your own apt mirror.

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Build your own NAS, Part 2: Tuning

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Published on 3 years, 7 months ago

2.5 Admins 87: Unplanned Obsolescence

Yet another IoT company abandons its customers, ridiculous “hard drives”, Postrges with containers, and cloud storage that isn’t quite as good as it sounds. With guest host Alex Kretzschmar from the …

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

2.5 Admins 86: Reluctant Sysadmin

The new features in OpenSSH, an embarrassing outage, the ugly side of Apple’s AirTags, and securing SSH keys when using Git. With guest host Dalton Durst from Linux After Dark.

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Improving Repl…

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

2.5 Admins 85: Textbook Scam

CAPTCHAs in phishing attacks, Jim gets angry about Bitcoin propaganda in schools, and packet loss with UDP.

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Tuning OpenZFS Record size

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Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

2.5 Admins 84: Open Source Sabotage

An open source dev goes rogue, a big single sign-on provider is compromised, self-hosting DNS, and more.

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Should I upgrade to OpenZFS 2.1?

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BIG sabotage: Famous npm…

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

2.5 Admins 83: Solid State Bathtubs

SSD reliability, a huge potential amplification DDoS attack, and learning how a mail server works.

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Webinar: Improving Recovery Objectives with OpenZFS

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Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

2.5 Admins 82: Oil, Gold, and Firstborn

Our concerns about Google’s latest acquisition, the technical implications of the sanctions on Russia, more on VPNs and filesystem replacements, and using Nagios with Sanoid.

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Controlling Reso…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

2.5 Admins 81: Don’t Pay

How not to solve some of the problems with filesystems, why backups are only part of defending your data, and Allan finally tells us the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

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NFS Sharing wi…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

2.5 Admins 80: 100 Emoji

Browser version numbers might break websites, Samsung’s bad crypto implementation, more on Mazda and Caddy, the FreeBSD init system, and keeping VMs in sync between the two physical hosts.

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Published on 3 years, 9 months ago