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2.5 Admins

2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/edi

Episodes

Total: 222

2.5 Admins 22: Unexpected migrations
2021/1/21

Why Parler is unlikely to come back any time soon, free RHEL, and using a VPS to subvert VPN limits.

2.5 Admins 21: Reproducible errors
2021/1/14

The merits of ECC RAM, why reproducible builds are a good idea, and where to buy used equipment. &nb

2.5 Admins 20: Free money, claim it now!
2021/1/7

A cruel but necessary phishing test, ancient standards in brand new legislation, using Windows when

2.5 Admins 19: nOauth? No gmail!
2020/12/24

Why Google services like Gmail went down recently, the potentially promising future for RISC-V, and

2.5 Admins 18: False sense of privacy
2020/12/10

Potentially improving DNS privacy, the big new ZFS release, and the best way to automate Linux insta

2.5 Admins 17: CPU change
2020/11/26

How Intel and AMD have fought it out over the years, Apple changes the industry with their M1 SoC, a

2.5 Admins 16: TANSTAAFL
2020/11/12

Google proves that “unlimited” anything doesn’t exist, GitHub shenanigans, Apple&#

2.5 Admins 15: Fixed it for ya
2020/10/29

We wade through Cloudfare’s marketing fluff, forced WordPress plugin updates, a bunch of your

2.5 Admins 14: Not a database
2020/10/15

How not to store test results, AMD firmly on top of the desktop space, what moving to remote work me

2.5 Admins 13: bs=1mebibyte
2020/10/1

Intel almost catching up to AMD with Tiger Lake, the .uk fiasco, and why you shouldn’t be usin

2.5 Admins 12: 5400 cyber RPMs
2020/9/17

Cyber insurance for ransomware, more confusing WD specs, the truth behind the return of the Gateway

2.5 Admins 11: Monitoring the Internet
2020/9/3

How Internet standards are decided, what a new one means for the Web, a surprising “feature&#8

2.5 Admins 10: Mini-PCs and HDDs
2020/8/20

Low power x86 vs Arm boards, hard disk failure rates, and the intricacies of ZFS snapshots.   P

2.5 Admins 09: Horrible hosts
2020/8/6

Intel’s 7nm woes, hosts files, Mozilla’s VPN service, and automating ssh between remote

2.5 Admins 08: Energy assisted drive recovery
2020/7/23

New types of hard disks, recovering data from dying drives, AMD makes Jim reach for the calculator,

2.5 Admins 07: Fail dumpster fire
2020/7/9

Initial Arm Mac benchmarks are out and they aren’t terrible, getting the best transfer speeds

2.5 Admins 06: BFYTW
2020/6/25

Jim bought the worst laptop in the world, a quick update on SMR drives, learning the basics of ZFS,

2.5 Admins 05: IPv6 when?
2020/6/11

When the world will move to IPv6, WD SMR drives put to the test, raw vs qcow2 on ZFS, and erasing SS

2.5 Admins 04: Zooming from pets to cattle
2020/5/28

Zoom’s new encryption, podcasts in walled gardens, and servers as pets vs cattle.   Plug

2.5 Admins 03: Apache’s Btr than you think
2020/5/14

Why Apache is still relevant in 2020, and the differences between ZFS and Btrfs.   Plugs Allan&