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 169: SDCoF

November 16, 2023 31:12 26.55 MB Downloads: 0

A Cloudflare outage shines a light on sloppy data center practices, and why you shouldn’t run a mail server at home. Plus followup on the Android multi-user bug, package managers on Windows, and Toshiba hard drives.

 

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News/discussion

Cloudflare claims Flexential data center outage was behind service disruption – DCD

Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage

Android 14’s storage disaster gets patched, but your data might be gone

 

Feedback

winget

Toshiba Consumer Internal Hard Disk Drives

 

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We were asked about running a mail server at home.

“Run Your Own Mail Server” chapter 0

 

 

 

 

 

 

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