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 249: Octopodian Nightmare
Locating people with just a phone call, Google forces a change to Let’s Encrypt certificates, yet another example of a “lifetime” subscription being cut short, connecting drives to a small form factor machine, and managing ssh keys with LDAP.
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What We’ve Learned Supporting FreeBSD in Production (So You Don’t Have To)
News
O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call
Ending TLS Client Authentication Certificate Support in 2026 – Let’s Encrypt
VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them
Free consulting
We were asked about connecting drives to a small form factor machine, and managing ssh keys with LDAP.
SAS Expanders, Build Your Own JBOD DAS Enclosure and Save – Iteration 1
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