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 147: EPYC Fail
Sloppy practises by Gigabyte reveal one of the problems with UEFI, why Slack refuses to implement end to end encryption, a familiar bug ruins people’s uptime, and XFS vs ext4. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD or Linux – A Choice Without OS Wars News/discussion Millions of Gigabyte Motherboards Were Sold With a […]
2.5 Admins 146: VisionForge
We are unimpressed by Apple’s new headset, a particularly bountiful watering hole attack, misdirection from the AI industry, and connecting hard disks via a PCIe card. Plugs Support us on patreon OpenZFS, Your Data and the Challenge of Ransomware News Apple Vision Pro Hololens dev Twitter thread (archived version) Some Curseforge accounts might […]
2.5 Admins 145: Bad Standards
An unfixable bug shines a light on a fundamental issue with Windows, why M.2 is a terrible connector for SSDs, the pros and cons of 2.4Ghz Wi-Fi, and the state of ZFS encryption. Plugs Support us on patreon OpenZFS For HPC Clusters News/discussion Windows 11 is so broken that even Microsoft can’t fix […]
2.5 Admins 144: AMRadio.zip
Google’s new TLDs are silly but not as dangerous as some people think, whether we should cling on to AM radio, Microsoft scans password-protected zip files, and how to assess open source software for its trustworthiness. Plug Support us on patreon News Google pushes .zip and .mov domains onto the Internet, and the […]
2.5 Admins 143: Even Stars Die
Adobe’s vague threats show why open source is often the pragmatic choice, Russians craft a poor man’s ransomware with WinRAR, Chrome drops the padlock icon, Amazon pulls a Google, and using a keyfile with a password manager. Plugs Support us on patreon Understanding ZFS vdev Types News/discussion Adobe Tells Users They Can Get […]
2.5 Admins 142: Intel Key Party
Google’s attempt to replace passwords with keys, why Jim thinks IBM is dragging Red Hat in the wrong direction, Intel’s rudimentary error that breaks a security feature, and protecting your files from other users on your system. Plugs Support us on patreon What Makes OpenZFS the Ideal Storage Solution for University Environments News […]
2.5 Admins 141: Sysadmin Hunt
What the challenge of building a web browser from scratch tells us about the state of the modern web, why some people are frying their AMD CPUs, more on basic password managers and regularly powerscyling network gear, moving from Mercurial to Git, running old applications on modern Ubuntu, and more. Plugs Support us on […]
2.5 Admins 140: /dev/nullvad
How not to practice responsible disclosure, Mulvad proves that its claims stand up, whether to be worried about public phone chargers, an “anti-ransomware” SSD, and monitoring ZFS with Zabbix. Plugs Support us on patreon Comparing Modern Open-Source Storage Solutions: OpenZFS vs. The Rest News Vague warning about an Amazon compromise Mullvad VPN was […]
2.5 Admins 139: Just Abandon Twitter
The new and up and coming tech that we’re excited about including RISC-V, hard drive innovation, Arm servers, and the Fediverse. Plus whether FreeBSD’s license has held it back, and generating SSL certificates on a router. Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and […]
2.5 Admins 138: Drive Failure
Google Drive’s arbitrary file limit, SMR disks probably die sooner, Western Digital’s My Cloud outage locks some people out of their data, why we don’t talk much about Veeam, and running containers as root. Plugs Support us on patreon Managing Disk Arrays on FreeBSD and TrueNAS News Google Drive quietly introduced (then pulled) […]
2.5 Admins 137: Schrodinger’s Backup
Yet another reason not to plug random USB drives into your laptop, how Reddit learned about the importance of testing your backups, and we brainstorm a sysadmin’s version of a minimal password manager. News/discussion Journalist plugs in unknown USB drive mailed to him—it exploded in his face You Broke Reddit: The Pi-Day Outage […]
2.5 Admins 136: Red Scare
Why the RESTRICT Act is about much more than banning Tik Tok, what recent Tesla hacks tell us about the way the security research community is changing, and what server manufacturers we recommend. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD or Linux – A Choice Without OS Wars News TikTok ban hearing: all the […]
2.5 Admins 135: Moonshots
Why the death of Reader 10 years ago might come back to haunt Google, Samsung’s AI moon photos raise a philosophical question, Jim’s frustrations with Ubuntu, and connecting a POS system. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD History: Understanding the origins of DTrace News/discussion Requiem for Google Reader, gone but not forgotten Samsung’s […]
2.5 Admins 134: 2guys1tesla
Our take on the collapse of Siicon Valley Bank, an odd case of 2 Teslas with the same key, filesystems in VMs, and self-hosted password managers. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD vs Linux: Tracing and Troubleshooting News Silicon Valley Bank collapses Common equity capital chart Man accidentally drove away in someone else’s […]
2.5 Admins 133: ElasticWallet
Saving millions of dollars by exiting the cloud, GoDaddy is compromised by a sophisticated attacker, why you really shouldn’t use a smart plug to powercycle your router, running SMB and NFS shares on the same host, why private keys should stay private, and using old hardware as a backup server. Plugs Support us on […]