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 60: Butter Fingers
How Facebook’s services managed to go down for 6 hours, Windows Subsystem for Linux is now easier than ever to set up, and expanding a large capacity storage server.
Plugs
Webinar: Enterprise Certificate Management on FreeBSD – October 28th @ 12:00 ET
Manipulating a ZFS Pool from the Rescue System
News
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we know
Update about the October 4th outage
Animated graphic of Facebook BGP routes disappearing
The best part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux
A preview of WSL in the Microsoft Store is now available
Free Consulting
We were asked about expanding the storage in large capacity server.
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CBT Nuggets
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