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 13: bs=1mebibyte
Intel almost catching up to AMD with Tiger Lake, the .uk fiasco, and why you shouldn’t be using dd.
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News
Hands-on with Intel’s i7-1185G7 Tiger Lake prototype laptop
Intel’s run at the GPU market begins with Tiger Lake onboard graphics
What the hell is going on with .uk?
.uk registry operator Nominet responds to renewed criticism – by silencing its critics
Free consulting
We were asked about block size while using dd. Jim mentioned his blog post about iostat.
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