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.
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A cruel but necessary phishing test, ancient standards in brand new legislation, using Windows when it makes sense, and commissioning and decommissioning servers.
Plugs
Webinar: Introducing OpenZFS 2.0
Klara: Routing and Firewalling VLANS with FreeBSD
News
GoDaddy Employees Were Told They Were Getting a Holiday Bonus. It Was Actually a Phishing Test
Free consulting
We were asked about Active Directory solutions, and the server commissioning and decommissioning process.
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Datadog
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TrueNAS from iXsystems
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