Podcast Episodes

2.5 Admins 19: nOauth? No gmail!

Why Google services like Gmail went down recently, the potentially promising future for RISC-V, and using ZFS for home and root.

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Google Mail outage

Google incident report

New RISC-V CPU claims…

Published on 5 years ago

2.5 Admins 18: False sense of privacy

Potentially improving DNS privacy, the big new ZFS release, and the best way to automate Linux installations.

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Webinar – Best Practices For Optimizing ZFS – Part 1

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Published on 5 years ago

2.5 Admins 17: CPU change

How Intel and AMD have fought it out over the years, Apple changes the industry with their M1 SoC, and we repeat the mantra that RAID is not a backup.

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Published on 5 years ago

2.5 Admins 16: TANSTAAFL

Google proves that “unlimited” anything doesn’t exist, GitHub shenanigans, Apple’s new Arm computers, and which distro to start with as a sysadmin.

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Allan’s ZFS Webinar – Nov 18th, signup soon…

Published on 5 years, 1 month ago

2.5 Admins 15: Fixed it for ya

We wade through Cloudfare’s marketing fluff, forced WordPress plugin updates, a bunch of your questions, and the shocking revelation that FreeBSD actually has graphics drivers.

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History of Fre…

Published on 5 years, 1 month ago

2.5 Admins 14: Not a database

How not to store test results, AMD firmly on top of the desktop space, what moving to remote work means for corporate networks, and deduplication of disorganized data.

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Allan’s summary of the …

Published on 5 years, 2 months ago

2.5 Admins 13: bs=1mebibyte

Intel almost catching up to AMD with Tiger Lake, the .uk fiasco, and why you shouldn’t be using dd.

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OpenZFS Developer Summit

All Things Open 2020

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Published on 5 years, 2 months ago

2.5 Admins 12: 5400 cyber RPMs

Cyber insurance for ransomware, more confusing WD specs, the truth behind the return of the Gateway brand, and managing config files.

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Ransomware accounted for 41% of all cyber insurance claims…

Published on 5 years, 3 months ago

2.5 Admins 11: Monitoring the Internet

How Internet standards are decided, what a new one means for the Web, a surprising “feature” of Chrome, and the best ways to monitor your systems.

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WebBundles Harmful to Content Blocking, Secur…

Published on 5 years, 3 months ago

2.5 Admins 10: Mini-PCs and HDDs

Low power x86 vs Arm boards, hard disk failure rates, and the intricacies of ZFS snapshots.

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OpenZFS Developer Summit

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Published on 5 years, 4 months ago