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 263: Seagate RAID
McDonald’s IT systems seem to be riddled with 90s-style coding errors, we finally know where the fraudulent hard drives came from, when IT workers go rogue, and ZFS on root without using FreeBSD or Ubuntu.
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Seagate Uncovers Global Scheme That Sold 1 Million Used Drives as New
# smartctl -l farm /dev/sdx
Developer gets 4 years for activating network “kill switch” to avenge his firing
Woman gets 8 years for aiding North Koreans infiltrate 300 US firms
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