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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2.5 Admins 70: Xmas AMA
It’s our holiday AMA episode. We answered your questions about hobbies, TV resolutions, living in the moment, and the biggest screw-ups we’ve witnessed. Plugs Panel: FreeBSD Arm64 Flexibility with Ampere Support us on patreon Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern […]
2.5 Admins 69: Nice
A huge vulnerability in a Java logging library, ZFS on AWS disappoints, the fastest web servers for static sites, the importance of certs, and more. Plugs Using FreeBSD’s pkg audit to investigate known security issues Support us on patreon News/Discussion Log4Shell: RCE 0-day exploit found in log4j 2, a popular Java logging package […]
2.5 Admins 68: Shuckchain
A mystery in the Tor network, whether blockchain has any real-world value, configuring passwords with Ansible, and burning in new disks. With guest host Gary Williams from Linux After Dark. Plugs Allan was on Late Night Linux Extra talking about FreeBSD. BSDCan 2022 – Call for papers Support us on patreon News It’s […]
2.5 Admins 67: Haitch
An insight into the massive scale of Google’s infrastructure, Allan and Jim refuse to accept that crypto now means cryptocurrency (and confuse Latin and Greek), multi-factor auth and WireGuard, and testing network quality. Plugs Demystifying OpenZFS 2.0 Support us on patreon News/Discussion Google’s server life extension delivers $1.7bn revenue boost in nine months […]
2.5 Admins 66: Lack of Entropy
Tesla owners locked out of their cars, a Linux side-channel attack that enables DNS cache poisoning, why Jim doesn’t use Proxmox, and accessing KVM hosts from Windows. Plugs Jim was on Late Night Linux twice, as well as Late Night Linux Extra. Support us on patreon News Tesla drivers left unable to start […]
2.5 Admins 65: Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten
How some Swedish parents tried to take control of their kids’ education app, why you shouldn’t try to add magsafe to your phone, introducing the new shiny at work, Samba security, and more. Plugs FreeBSD Papers We Love: Jails and Cloneable Network Stacks Support us on patreon News/Discussion These Parents Built a School […]
2.5 Admins 64: Augmented Dystopia
Why the metaverse sounds terrible, Alder Lake benchmarks, revoking SSH keys, remote management of Windows machines, and more. Plugs Looking towards the future: FreeBSD on RISC-V Support us on patreon News Welcome to Meta Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: It’s a barn burner OpenZFS Developer Summit Free Consulting We were […]
2.5 Admins 63: Unlocking the Future
The Oculus Go is opened up, a potential addition to HTTPS, Intel’s new Alder Lake CPUs, testing ZFS backups, virtualising a firewall, and more. Plugs OpenZFS Developer Summit – Nov 8-9th Online Advanced ZFS Snapshots – Holds and Clones Support us on patreon News/Discussion John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus […]
2.5 Admins 62: Top Notch
The stupid notch on the new Macs, why Windows 11 had performance issues with AMD CPUs, why hibernation isn’t really a thing, and more. Plugs OpenZFS Developer Summit – Nov 8-9th Online Understanding top(1) on FreeBSD Support us on patreon News AMD and Microsoft release fixes for Ryzen slowdowns in Windows 11 Apple’s […]
2.5 Admins 61: Alice and Bob
How not to steal and sell sensitive information, why ISPs shouldn’t try to sue Netflix, and the best way to set up wireless access points. Plugs Webinar: Enterprise Certificate Management on FreeBSD – October 28th @ 12:00 ET FreeBSD Developer Workstation Setup Support us on patreon News/Discussion FBI Arrests Navy Nuclear Engineer, Wife […]
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 All Things Open Manipulating a ZFS Pool from the Rescue System Support […]
2.5 Admins 59: Megaphone in the Middle
Why RISC-V looks promising for the future, how the web switched to HTTPS by default, an interesting DoS method, and how mitigating ssh attacks has changed over the years. Plugs RISC-V: The New Architecture on the Block Support us on patreon News/Discussion Weaponizing Middleboxes for TCP Reflected Amplification Electronic Frontier Foundation will deprecate […]
2.5 Admins 58: Autocompromised
A pretty serious flaw with Autodiscover that leaks email credentials, why Btrfs sucks for more than one disk, and the best hardware for a low-powered NAS. Plugs EuroBSDCon 2021 videos are available When to use a SLOG, and when not to Support us on patreon News Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover bug leaks hundreds of […]
2.5 Admins 57: Spherical Chickens
What exactly constitutes WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption, your feedback about time-based YouTube blocking, Optane in servers, and what sysadmins actually do. Plugs Using the FreeBSD RACK TCP stack Support us on patreon News/Discussion WhatsApp “end-to-end encrypted” messages aren’t that private after all Free Consulting We were asked about Optane in servers, and what […]
2.5 Admins 56: OMIGOD root
Yet another Azure vulnerability, Anonymous dumps a huge Epik leak, running a desktop in a VM, SSH keys on a Yubikey, and ZFS send to TrueNAS. Plugs Understanding ZFS Channel Programs Support us on patreon News Security researchers at Wiz discover another major Azure vulnerability Timeline Anonymous leaks gigabytes of data from alt-right […]