Podcast Episodes

2.5 Admins 79: Flex your disks

Maintaining data long-term, Chrome OS comes to generic PCs, and how to detect intrusions and malware on servers and networks.

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The FreeBSD Boot Process

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Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

2.5 Admins 78: MAZDA~1.BMP

Why Arm was never likely to be acquired by Nvidia, an expensive bug in Mazda cars, and how there isn’t always a technical solution to a policy problem.

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Unix: On the path to BSD

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Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

2.5 Admins 77: The Joe Ressington Experience

What the recent Spotify controversy means for open podcasting standards, why young people increasingly don’t understand the concept of a hierarchical filesystem, and our update practices.

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Mod…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

2.5 Admins 76: Horses for Courses

The pain of updating Windows, FreeBSD vs Linux, and getting started with ZFS.

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FreeBSD Periodic Scripts

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Microsoft: Windows needs at least 8 hours online…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

2.5 Admins 75: Burning Fiber

Allan has a recent war story for us, Microsoft blocked email from Linode, maximizing performance in a large capacity storage server, and more.

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Cluster Provisioning with Nomad and Pot

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Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

2.5 Admins 74: Virtual Pointless Network

A potential new European recursive DNS, why VPNs aren’t the silver bullet some people think they are, and how we set up new systems from scratch.

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The Birth of Unix

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Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

2.5 Admins 73: QR Choad

A novel approach to an old scam, your feedback about web servers and ransomware, and maintaining old databases.

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Packet Scheduling with Dummynet and FreeBSD

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Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

2.5 Admins 72: Email Cartel

Microsoft suffers an embarrassment with Exchange, why it’s so hard to host your own email, and the easiest and safest way to manage your backups.

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BSDCan 2022: June 1-4th. CFP Closes Jan 19th

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

2.5 Admins 71: Recover Calmly

Why ransomware isn’t really an infosec problem, how some open source work Allan helped with saved a company millions of dollars, your feedback, and more.

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OpenZFS: Native Encryption

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Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

2.5 Admins 70: Xmas AMA

It’s our holiday AMA episode. We answered your questions about hobbies, TV resolutions, living in the moment, and the biggest screw-ups we’ve witnessed.

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Panel: FreeBSD Arm64 Flexibility with…

Published on 4 years ago