2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/edi
The finer points of allocating VM resources, Jim is annoyed with the browser situation on Ubuntu des
Freeing up millions of IPv4 addresses, WSL 2 comes to Windows Server, why cert renewal should be aut
A Linux user tries out FreeBSD’s Bhyve hypervisor, choosing storage for a VMware ESXi server,
End-to-end encryption is under threat again, Broadcom is buying VMware, prison time for an angry DBA
More on Ubuntu mirrors and DNS, detecting advanced persistent threats, resilient backups, and open s
Another attempt to replace passwords, trying to solve the problem of write-once storage, and the unu
How long optical disks last and why cold storage isn’t usually worth it, VM security, more tho
Musk buys Twitter, Ubuntu’s ZFS on root snapshot tool is put on the back burner, and setting u
Yet another IoT company abandons its customers, ridiculous “hard drives”, Postrges with
The new features in OpenSSH, an embarrassing outage, the ugly side of Apple’s AirTags, and sec
CAPTCHAs in phishing attacks, Jim gets angry about Bitcoin propaganda in schools, and packet loss wi
An open source dev goes rogue, a big single sign-on provider is compromised, self-hosting DNS, and m
SSD reliability, a huge potential amplification DDoS attack, and learning how a mail server works. &
Our concerns about Google’s latest acquisition, the technical implications of the sanctions on
How not to solve some of the problems with filesystems, why backups are only part of defending your
Browser version numbers might break websites, Samsung’s bad crypto implementation, more on Maz
Maintaining data long-term, Chrome OS comes to generic PCs, and how to detect intrusions and malware
Why Arm was never likely to be acquired by Nvidia, an expensive bug in Mazda cars, and how there isn
What the recent Spotify controversy means for open podcasting standards, why young people increasing
The pain of updating Windows, FreeBSD vs Linux, and getting started with ZFS. Plugs FreeBSD P
