Podcast Episodes

2.5 Admins 219: Spooky Stories

It’s Halloween so Jim and Allan share horrific and spooky stories from their sysadmin careers. Plus picking a UPS for a homelab.

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Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

2.5 Admins 218: TLS TTL

SSL certificates are likely going to last less time, the latest Windows 11 update leaves a huge chunk of data behind and doesn’t play nicely with some SSDs, picking a modern dhcp server on a homebrew…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

2.5 Admins 217: Drive Scavenging

The difference between monitoring and metrics analysis, the security pros and cons of cloud vs on-prem, why Jim and Allan don’t use Unraid, and cloud storage and email for a small company.

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Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

2.5 Admins 216: Pa55w0rd%

NIST has finally proposed some sensible password standards, why server CPUs with high core counts make sense in a lot of deployments, the .io TLD is probably sticking around, and the best options for…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

2.5 Admins 215: Still no VLANs

Why cold storage is never as good as keeping your data warm and regularly tested, how the American air traffic control system became so outdated, and isolating your devices from a roommate’s shenanig…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

2.5 Admins 214: No VLANs

A proposed solution to the WHOIS TLS verification problem gets a surprising amount of pushback. Plus isolating IoT devices, our thoughts on Ubiquiti gear, setting up WiFi in a new house, remote acces…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

2.5 Admins 213: Photo Philosophy

The Malaysian government’s misguided plan to control its citizens’ DNS, the wrong way to deploy underwater servers, a philosophical question about how long a person’s photos will exist, and how we ma…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

2.5 Admins 212: WHODIS

A surprising way to exploit the WHOIS system, Microsoft will force old versions of Windows 11 to update, and the simple way to set up TP-Link Omada gear.

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Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

2.5 Admins 211: Open Sourceless

Another example of the downsides of abstraction, whether AI can ever be truly “open source”, and the security benefits and drawbacks of different types of VPN.

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2.5 Admins 210: Ryzen Up

AMD will patch some old Ryzens against SinkClose now, but their benchmarking methods for newer CPUs didn’t live up to everyday reality. Plus Bcachefs devs annoy Linus Torvalds, the US government sues…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago