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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

Nginx is forked, Broadcom/VMware kills ESXi, dedup is finally fixed in ZFS, using multiple network i

Trying to report a security issue lands a consultant in trouble, a new take on the drop shipping sca

Microsoft’s rudimentary error that allowed an attacker access to its executives’ emails,

2.5 Admins 179: Y2K NotOK

2024/1/25

Y2K was a pretty serious problem and 2038 is coming soon, work on Arm servers is improving the exper

Hard drives are pretty much an enterprise product now, GitHub’s malware problem, and spreading

Why the problems with open source licenses aren’t quite as easy to fix as some people think, t

What does “incognito mode” in Chrome actually mean and whether documenting browser stand

Twitch pulls out of Korea thanks to the opposite of Net Neutrality, it’s not clear to what ext

What you need to know about the recent SSH vulnerability, yet another privacy issue with cloud-conne

2.5 Admins 173: Ghost Files

2023/12/14

Google Drive client users lost months of files, a feature of UEFI that has left millions of computer

2.5 Admins 172: HOLEy ZFS

2023/12/7

Jim and Allan break down the details of the recent ZFS data corruption bug, and give their tips for

2.5 Admins 171: RSA PSA

2023/11/30

Why a small island nation’s top level domain ended up with such a terrible reputation, an ssh

Why and how Allan installed a set of new Power over Ethernet wireless access points, and our hardwar

2.5 Admins 169: SDCoF

2023/11/16

A Cloudflare outage shines a light on sloppy data center practices, and why you shouldn’t run

Okta seems to not be taking its security seriously enough, crashing iPhones is far easier than it sh

The large water consumption of AI and data centers in general, China’s big push towards IPv6,

What Google should do to prevent malware sites in their ads, why you might want to avoid using multi

2.5 Admins 165: Big AI

2023/10/19

The nuances of copyrighting AI-generated art, getting the best speeds with Samba, and building an SS

Why enabling password autofill isn’t a great idea, Jim’s adventures in network repair, a

A network breach teaches us all a valuable lesson about threat models, Allan and Jim’s TV setu