2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/edi
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,
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
Google Drive client users lost months of files, a feature of UEFI that has left millions of computer
Jim and Allan break down the details of the recent ZFS data corruption bug, and give their tips for
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
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
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