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2.5 Admins 219: Spooky Stories

2024/10/31
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Jim and Allan recount spooky and horrific experiences from their sysadmin careers, starting with a data center migration gone wrong due to a power outage and corroded cables. Allan shares a story about a company with wide-open public IPs, leading to rampant security issues. The hosts also discuss challenges with legacy systems and limited technology in earlier times.
  • Data center migration complicated by power failure and corroded cables.
  • Company with all machines on public IPs and no firewall.
  • Challenges with legacy systems, limited technology, and blind troubleshooting in the 80s and 90s.

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It’s Halloween so Jim and Allan share horrific and spooky stories from their sysadmin careers. Plus picking a UPS for a homelab.

 

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