2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
2.5 Admins 119: Six Month Scrub
The risks of taking your laptop to a repair shop, why DNS has become concentrated to just a few providers, and powering down drives periodically.
Plugs
Virtualization Showdown: FreeBSD bhyve vs Linux KVM
Discussion
Thinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be very afraid
Free Consulting
We were asked about periodically shutting down a server.
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