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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 62: Top Notch

2021/10/28

The stupid notch on the new Macs, why Windows 11 had performance issues with AMD CPUs, why hibernati

How not to steal and sell sensitive information, why ISPs shouldn’t try to sue Netflix, and th

How Facebook’s services managed to go down for 6 hours, Windows Subsystem for Linux is now eas

Why RISC-V looks promising for the future, how the web switched to HTTPS by default, an interesting

A pretty serious flaw with Autodiscover that leaks email credentials, why Btrfs sucks for more than

What exactly constitutes WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption, your feedback about time-based YouT

Yet another Azure vulnerability, Anonymous dumps a huge Epik leak, running a desktop in a VM, SSH ke

A surprisingly cheap and easy way to connect 2 buildings wirelessly, your feedback about Samba, and

SSD manufacturers quietly switching out components, 20TB non-SMR HDDs, the surprising side effects o

How getting root might be easier for attackers than you think, what a new OS can teach us about open

2.5 Admins 52: Notflix

2021/8/19

Netflix blocking residential IPs, Intel’s upcoming discrete graphics cards, and the finer poin

Why a large sysadmin conference shut down and what it means, roaming between multiple wireless acces

Huge improvements for WireGuard on Windows, and a brief update on the Framework Laptop. Plus why RAI

Why the Pegasus spyware isn’t really anything new, a Windows vulnerability sends Jim and Allan

2.5 Admins 48: PR Problem

2021/7/22

Jim’s hands-on with the modular and upgradeable Framework laptop, the details of Muse Group&#8

The current and future states of system performance across the whole stack, and backing up to tapes.

Windows 11 has been announced but some key details are still unknown, why you shouldn’t connec

Potentially serious vulnerabilities in military systems, a new ZFS feature that’s mostly for h

2.5 Admins 44: ZF yes!

2021/6/24

Supply chain problems causing a rise in counterfeit chips, busting the myth about ZFS and RAM, gold

A potential order of magnitude increase in HDD sizes, Amazon Sidewalk, dying SSDs, planning new syst