2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/edi
SSD manufacturers quietly switching out components, 20TB non-SMR HDDs, the surprising side effects o
How getting root might be easier for attackers than you think, what a new OS can teach us about open
Netflix blocking residential IPs, Intel’s upcoming discrete graphics cards, and the finer poin
Why a large sysadmin conference shut down and what it means, roaming between multiple wireless acces
Huge improvements for WireGuard on Windows, and a brief update on the Framework Laptop. Plus why RAI
Why the Pegasus spyware isn’t really anything new, a Windows vulnerability sends Jim and Allan
Jim’s hands-on with the modular and upgradeable Framework laptop, the details of Muse Group
The current and future states of system performance across the whole stack, and backing up to tapes.
Windows 11 has been announced but some key details are still unknown, why you shouldn’t connec
Potentially serious vulnerabilities in military systems, a new ZFS feature that’s mostly for h
Supply chain problems causing a rise in counterfeit chips, busting the myth about ZFS and RAM, gold
A potential order of magnitude increase in HDD sizes, Amazon Sidewalk, dying SSDs, planning new syst
Fastly’s recent outage, how attackers probably breached the Colonial Pipeline’s network,
Synology and Btrfs, backing up low-end Linux laptops, vulnerability management, FreeBSD hypervisors,
The complex tale of the recent IRC drama, Microsoft kills Windows 10X, and why we think a WordPress
Testing failing disks and why they don’t work over a certain altitude, and your feedback about
The importance of VPNs when using Wi-Fi, the complexities of chip node size, and whether appliance N
Authorities trying to remove malware from people’s servers, turning your sysadmin hobby into a
GUI Linux apps on Windows, Linux kernel development is pen-tested, ZFS and Docker, and converting a
We answer a bunch of your questions about server hardening, managing ZFS snapshots, Docusign, SSL ce
