2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/edi
RISC-V is on the rise in China, why Power CPUs aren’t as promising, the dystopian nightmare of
Ten-year-old Chromecasts stop working, movie DVDs start rotting, Skype is finally dying, using ZFS o
HP was forcing people to wait on hold for 15 minutes to get support, the DOGE site was embarrassingl
Arm is going to make its own server chips, WordPress is selling “100 year” domain regist
Google found a way to run unofficial microcode on AMD CPUs, whether software should get a CVE when i
Used Seagate drives are being sold as “new”, another reminder not to hack Windows 11 ont
We appreciate the elegance of subnets as well as the power of custom benchmarking, Xboxes will suppo
An embarrassing typo suggests that MasterCard’s monitoring isn’t as good as it should be
Microsoft didn’t control an important domain that it was using and end up red-faced, the dange
A new version of ZFS is out and we go over the great new features. Plus recovering data after accide
Jim and Allan explain the benefits of a lithium iron phosphate “UPS”, whether it’s
What it would take to reliably store data for a hundred years including Institutional funding and or
Windows ssh is sending more telemetry than you might think, Let’s Encrypt will offer 6 days ce
Chinese researchers are making progress with quantum computing but they haven’t broken modern
The US government tells people to use encrypted messaging, mandated MFA in healthcare raises a scary
Intel’s CEO departs but replacing him won’t magically solve its serious problems, Zipcar
Equinix is shutting down its bare metal service, D-Link advises people to dump old vulnerable router
Windows server unexpectedly upgrades major versions, Microsoft reinvents the idea of a thin client,
Jim and Allan discover modern charging tech and marvel at what’s possible in the USB-C era, mo
How using a copy-on-write filesystem like ZFS can get systems back online within seconds after ranso
