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 179: Y2K NotOK
Y2K was a pretty serious problem and 2038 is coming soon, work on Arm servers is improving the experience on the desktop, and what to do with an old unsupported Synology NAS.
Plugs
OpenZFS Best Practices: Part 2: File Serving and SANs
News/discussion
The ‘nothing-happened’ Y2K bug – and how IT squashed it
What I learned from using a Raspberry Pi 5 as my main computer for two weeks
Free Consulting
We were asked about what to do with an old unsupported Synology NAS.
How can I use a PC to recover data when my Synology NAS malfunctions?
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