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 135: Moonshots
Why the death of Reader 10 years ago might come back to haunt Google, Samsung’s AI moon photos raise a philosophical question, Jim’s frustrations with Ubuntu, and connecting a POS system.
Plugs
FreeBSD History: Understanding the origins of DTrace
News/discussion
Requiem for Google Reader, gone but not forgotten
Samsung’s Moon photos are fake — but so is a lot of mobile photography
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We were asked about connecting a POS system.
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