Podcast Episodes

2.5 Admins 229: LiFePo4Life

Jim and Allan explain the benefits of a lithium iron phosphate “UPS”, whether it’s possible to delete every single copy of a file, and using Bluetooth in a Windows 11 VM.

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Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 228: Century-Scale Storage

What it would take to reliably store data for a hundred years including Institutional funding and organization, decade-proof redundancy, multiple hot and cold copies,hedging your bets against multipl…

Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 227: Six Day Certs

Windows ssh is sending more telemetry than you might think, Let’s Encrypt will offer 6 days certificates, a PSA about domains that don’t send emails, and performance issues in a Synology NAS.

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Published on 11 months, 4 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 226: Quantum Toddle

Chinese researchers are making progress with quantum computing but they haven’t broken modern RSA or AES encryption, Russian attackers compromised a business via a nearby building’s WiFi, a startup r…

Published on 1 year ago

2.5 Admins 225: Kinetic Response

The US government tells people to use encrypted messaging, mandated MFA in healthcare raises a scary geopolitical question, QNAP bungles a firmware update, and securing access to self hosted applicat…

Published on 1 year ago

2.5 Admins 224: ZipLocked

Intel’s CEO departs but replacing him won’t magically solve its serious problems, Zipcar wasn’t prepared for an outage and handled it really badly, moving to an email provider that supports DMARC, an…

Published on 1 year ago

2.5 Admins 223: Google Juice Abuse

Equinix is shutting down its bare metal service, D-Link advises people to dump old vulnerable routers, Google makes changes to how it ranks some affiliate-driven “reviews”, and data caps seem to be s…

Published on 1 year ago

2.5 Admins 222: Surprise Upgrade

Windows server unexpectedly upgrades major versions, Microsoft reinvents the idea of a thin client, restricting a friend’s access to just their backups, and the importance of warranties when buying h…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

2.5 Admins 221: Two Firewalls

Jim and Allan discover modern charging tech and marvel at what’s possible in the USB-C era, more on IPv6 firewalls, using ZFS like Git, and running your own authoritative DNS server.

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Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

2.5 Admins 220: Get a Job

How using a copy-on-write filesystem like ZFS can get systems back online within seconds after ransomeware encrypts all your data, and even warn you more quickly that it’s happening. Plus Jim and All…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago