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 141: Sysadmin Hunt
What the challenge of building a web browser from scratch tells us about the state of the modern web, why some people are frying their AMD CPUs, more on basic password managers and regularly powerscyling network gear, moving from Mercurial to Git, running old applications on modern Ubuntu, and more.
Plugs
Leveraging OpenZFS to Build Your Own Storage Appliance
News/discussion
How we’re building a browser when it’s supposed to be impossible
New BIOS updates attempt to keep Ryzen 7000X3D processors from frying themselves
Feedback
Free Consulting
We were asked about moving from Mercurial to Git, and running old applications on modern Ubuntu.
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