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
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
Toshiba Consumer Internal Hard Disk Drives
Free Consulting
We were asked about running a mail server at home.
“Run Your Own Mail Server” chapter 0
HelloFresh
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Kolide
Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/25a
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