Podcast Episodes

2.5 Admins 69: Nice

A huge vulnerability in a Java logging library, ZFS on AWS disappoints, the fastest web servers for static sites, the importance of certs, and more.

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Using FreeBSD’s pkg audit to investigate k…

Published on 4 years ago

2.5 Admins 68: Shuckchain

A mystery in the Tor network, whether blockchain has any real-world value, configuring passwords with Ansible, and burning in new disks. With guest host Gary Williams from Linux After Dark.

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A…

Published on 4 years ago

2.5 Admins 67: Haitch

An insight into the massive scale of Google’s infrastructure, Allan and Jim refuse to accept that crypto now means cryptocurrency (and confuse Latin and Greek), multi-factor auth and WireGuard, and t…

Published on 4 years ago

2.5 Admins 66: Lack of Entropy

Tesla owners locked out of their cars, a Linux side-channel attack that enables DNS cache poisoning, why Jim doesn’t use Proxmox, and accessing KVM hosts from Windows.

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Jim was on Late Night L…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

2.5 Admins 65: Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten

How some Swedish parents tried to take control of their kids’ education app, why you shouldn’t try to add magsafe to your phone, introducing the new shiny at work, Samba security, and more.

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F…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

2.5 Admins 64: Augmented Dystopia

Why the metaverse sounds terrible, Alder Lake benchmarks, revoking SSH keys, remote management of Windows machines, and more.

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Looking towards the future: FreeBSD on RISC-V

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Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

2.5 Admins 63: Unlocking the Future

The Oculus Go is opened up, a potential addition to HTTPS, Intel’s new Alder Lake CPUs, testing ZFS backups, virtualising a firewall, and more.

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OpenZFS Developer Summit – Nov 8-9th Online

Adv…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

2.5 Admins 62: Top Notch

The stupid notch on the new Macs, why Windows 11 had performance issues with AMD CPUs, why hibernation isn’t really a thing, and more.

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OpenZFS Developer Summit – Nov 8-9th Online

Understandin…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

2.5 Admins 61: Alice and Bob

How not to steal and sell sensitive information, why ISPs shouldn’t try to sue Netflix, and the best way to set up wireless access points.

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Webinar: Enterprise Certificate Management on FreeBS…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

2.5 Admins 60: Butter Fingers

How Facebook’s services managed to go down for 6 hours, Windows Subsystem for Linux is now easier than ever to set up, and expanding a large capacity storage server.

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Webinar: Enterprise Certi…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago