2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
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2.5 Admins 111: The Freezer Trick
SSDs are probably more reliable than spinning hard drives, how much RAM you actually need, Cloudflare alternatives, sudo password security, and more. Plugs Support us on patreon the History of Package Management on FreeBSD News/discussion The SSD Edition: 2022 Drive Stats Mid-year Review How Much RAM Do You Need in 2022? Exploring Swap […]
2.5 Admins 110: Border Gateway Currency
How a BGP hijack facilitated the theft of $235k worth of crypto, why we aren’t too excited about Cloudflare’s new CAPTCHA, and how to configure ZFS on Proxmox. Plugs Support us on patreon Deploying FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud Allan and Wendell chat about ZFS data recovery News How 3 hours of inaction from […]
2.5 Admins 109: Selling Technical Debt
Why solving network congestion issues is so difficult, our thoughts on DNS privacy, an unwise use case for 32-bit Linux, and PoE injectors vs switches. Discussion The Math Proves It—Network Congestion Is Inevitable Free Consulting We were asked about Power over Ethernet injectors vs PoE switches. Tailscale Tailscale is […]
2.5 Admins 108: dQw4w9WgXcQ
Why modern interfaces suck, the reasons we don’t recommend Cloudflare, and backups for beginners. With guest host Gary from Linux Downtime (and Pidgin). News/discussion Blocking Kiwifarms The modern OS desktop is a crime against humanity Rick Astley has done more to prevent folks clicking on unknown links than all cyber security training combined […]
2.5 Admins 107: s/smart//g
Why the W3C is struggling to move to HTTPS by default and follow-up on Certbot, monitoring, and Silverlight. Plus buying enterprise switches. News/discussion W3C’s planned transition to HTTPS stymied by legacy laggards Free Consulting We were asked what switches we recommend for enterprise. Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service […]
2.5 Admins 106: Wrap Your Deenis
A big change is coming to Windows licensing for VMs, Google changes the rules around VPNs on Android, and solving a DoH problem. Plugs Support us on patreon EuroBSDCon Sept 15-18 Vienna, Austria – Allan will be speaking about making ZFS scale for NVMe News Microsoft adds virtual core licensing to Windows Server […]
2.5 Admins 105: Old Men Yell at Cloud
The pros and cons of using email aliases, an Internet hero scratches his own itch, Jim and Allan yell at the cloud, and choosing a firewall distro. News/discussion The Security Pros and Cons of Using Email Aliases Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes Feedback A […]
2.5 Admins 104: Bathtub Map
Amazon is acquiring lots of home floor plans, Google will let politicians spam its Gmail users, burning in new drives, and ZFS scrub best practises. Plugs Support us on patreon EuroBSDCon Sept 15-18 Vienna, Austria – Allan will be speaking about making ZFS scale for NVMe News Amazon to acquire Roomba robot vacuum […]
2.5 Admins 103: AAD the SQL
Good and bad from Meta/Facebook, data centres in London are hogging all the power, separating databases from applications, picking a DB, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark. Plugs Support us on patreon News It’s time to leave the leap second in the past Meta thinks Facebook may need more […]
2.5 Admins 102: Admins After Dark
The consequences of accrued technical debt and how to avoid it, a serious security issue in Confluence, Proxmox’s poor ZFS config, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark. Plugs Support us on patreon News Linux x86 32-bit Is Vulnerable To Retbleed But Don’t Expect It To Get Fixed Debian skip-skip-cross-up-grade […]
2.5 Admins 101: Atomic Database
Jim and Allan’s thoughts on GitHub Copilot, why you can’t take the bar exam on modern Intel hardware, and database VM snapshot consistency. Plugs Contributing to Open Source: Beyond Software Development Support us on patreon News/discussion GitHub Copilot Linux Downtime – Episode 51 Why can’t Intel’s 12th-gen CPUs pass the bar exam? Blame […]
2.5 Admins 100: 💯
More on abandoned hardware, central auth, Internet Explorer, Antivirus, monitoring, speed testing, and more. Plugs Watch Jim and Allan’s webinar: Getting started with bhyve Support us on patreon Things mentioned: End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers (selected models) Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers FreeIPA Sophos Icinga […]
2.5 Admins 99: 00000000
A PSA about cheap hard drives, a major Internet outage in Canada, Apple’s new Lockdown Mode, and hostnames and DNS. Plugs From 0 to Bhyve on FreeBSD 13.1 Support us on patreon News PSA: buyer beware on “WaterPanther” drives Canadian ISP Rogers falls over for hours, takes out broadband, cable, cellphones Rogers restores […]
2.5 Admins 98: Lemonade
Picking the right switch, clustering Raspberry Pis, dynamic DNS, replacing a desktop PC, work-life balance, and more. Kolide Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can help you securely scale your business. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3HB8xUv Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines […]
2.5 Admins 97: Gotta Go Fast
The best ways to test your Internet speed, more on filesystem caching, monitoring servers at scale, and more. Plugs ZFS Developer job description Webinar: Open-source Virtualization: Getting Started with Bhyve Support us on patreon Discussion Public iPerf3 servers DSLReports MTR fast.com Feedback OpenZFS on Windows Free Consulting We were asked about […]