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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 162: Irresponsible Disclosure
2023/9/28

Google and Apple do a bad job of disclosing a pretty serious vulnerability, why hard drives aren&#82

2.5 Admins 161: 5PiB Coffee Mug
2023/9/21

The future of archive storage using lasers and ceramics, self-hosting an Internet archive, more on W

2.5 Admins 160: Diss Unity
2023/9/14

Unity causes a stink with its new pricing model, running out of disk space causes a very expensive p

2.5 Admins 159: Dirty Install
2023/9/7

The user experience on fresh installations of Windows and Edge is terrible and we get to the bottom

2.5 Admins 158: It Doesn’t Go to 10
2023/8/31

Dropbox once again proves that there is no such thing as “unlimited” anything, Intel isn

2.5 Admins 157: Lincoln’s HDD
2023/8/24

CNET’s SEO attempts once again show that nothing lasts forever, why the reports of the death o

2.5 Admins 156: SanDisk Extreme Fail
2023/8/17

Why fully remote work is on the wane as Zoom drags employees back to the office and Bluejeans is shu

2.5 Admins 155: Dialup Memories
2023/8/10

Allan and Jim reminisce about the early days of connecting to the Internet, and what inspired them t

2.5 Admins 154: 8.8.8.8.8.8
2023/8/3

Why the increasing trend of charging for public IPv4 addresses won’t change much, Google trial

2.5 Admins 153: Robots.nope
2023/7/27

Updating the robots.txt standard for the AI era, the US government implements an IoT certification a

2.5 Admins 152: AirTags Use CR2032 Batteries
2023/7/20

Intel is giving up on NUCs and Asus is taking over the line, millions of classified US military emai

2.5 Admins 151: Practical ZFS
2023/7/13

Setting up a self-hosted alternative, what counts as a “removable” battery, and backing

2.5 Admins 150: Red Hate
2023/7/6

Red Hat wants to limit redistribution of RHEL source code. We discuss their history with CentOS and

2.5 Admins 149: Three Year Warning
2023/6/29

WD disks “warning” that they have been running for 3 years, a modern replacement for IMA

2.5 Admins 148: API Ultra 7 Pro for Workstations
2023/6/22

Reddit fails to see where its true value lies, Intel makes its consumer CPU lines confusing, and Mic

2.5 Admins 147: EPYC Fail
2023/6/15

Sloppy practises by Gigabyte reveal one of the problems with UEFI, why Slack refuses to implement en

2.5 Admins 146: VisionForge
2023/6/8

We are unimpressed by Apple’s new headset, a particularly bountiful watering hole attack, misd

2.5 Admins 145: Bad Standards
2023/6/1

An unfixable bug shines a light on a fundamental issue with Windows, why M.2 is a terrible connector

2.5 Admins 144: AMRadio.zip
2023/5/25

Google’s new TLDs are silly but not as dangerous as some people think, whether we should cling on to

2.5 Admins 143: Even Stars Die
2023/5/18

Adobe’s vague threats show why open source is often the pragmatic choice, Russians craft a poor man’