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 132: 1.5FA
Twitter are going to charge for bad 2 factor authentication, new alarming details about the recent LastPass breach, and setting up a DNS server in the cloud. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara Webinar: Deploying a Successful Performance Audit News An update on two-factor authentication using SMS on Twitter LastPass says employee’s home […]
2.5 Admins 131: At Least Try
Google is getting paid to advertise malware sites, Comcast’s false map data, more on private TLDs, why we don’t use Btrfs, and getting notifications for your monitoring. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara Sysadmin Series: How to catch a bitcoin miner News/discussion Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software […]
2.5 Admins 130: HotBot Topic
Microsoft and Google seem to think that chatbots are the future of search, the problem of filtering spam, and organising data with backups in mind. News Bing is having bizarre emotional breakdowns and there’s a subreddit with examples Alphabet stock price drops after Google Bard launch blunder Microsoft classifies own emails as junk […]
2.5 Admins 129: 2.5aDMiNs.cOm
A “smart” lighting system goes wrong, mitigating a DNS attack, an unsatisfying update about Eufy cameras, why Jim and Allan won’t be active on Mastodon any time soon, and how we set up servers in a few minutes. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara Live Webinar, Feb 23rd: Deploying a Successful Performance Audit […]
2.5 Admins 128: Some Value
Yet another reason to disable voicemail, why so many recent Macs end up as scrap, and setting up a mail server. Plugs Support us on patreon Auditing for Storage Performance News WhatsApp accounts takeover Perfectly Good MacBooks From 2020 Are Being Sold for Scrap Because of Activation Lock Free Consulting We were […]
2.5 Admins 127: Public Why-Fi
Why you should still use a VPN with public WiFi, who the new Xeons are aimed at, follow-up on trying to be your own bank, and separating legacy WiFi devices from modern ones. Plugs Support us on patreon OpenZFS: Data Security vs Integrity News/discussion Why Public Wi-Fi is a Lot Safer Than You […]
2.5 Admins 126: Copy on Flight
A recent outage that grounded thousands of planes, correcting ZFS misreporting, the problem of fake SSDs on Amazon, and IP schemes vs internal DNS. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD vs Linux: Package Management News FAA outage that grounded flights blamed on old tech and damaged database file The Future of ZFS on […]
2.5 Admins 125: Into Thin Eir
Two recent examples of backups not being properly tested, why the term “edge” is meaningless, we try not to laugh at the Bitcoin dev who lost all his magic beans, and directory services for mixed environments. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara’s best articles from 2022 News/discussion Eir says thousands of customer emails […]
2.5 Admins 124: LastMigration
LastPass vaults are leaked, ChatGPT is coming to Bing, live migrations, and SSD vs spinning disk power usage. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara is looking for sysadmins with ZFS experience, join Allan’s team News LastPass – Notice of Recent Security Incident The LastPass disclosure of leaked password vaults is being torn apart […]
2.5 Admins 123: 4
It’s the last episode of the year so we look back at a couple of 2022 trends: the explosion of AI/ML, and big social media changes. Plus a quick-fire ZFS FAQ. Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and […]
2.5 Admins 122: PayAsYouPay
Buying and renting features in Intel hardware that you’ve already bought, killer robots, a huge nuclear fusion breakthrough, and the pros and cons of parallel rsync jobs. Plugs Support us on patreon OpenZFS: Choosing between FreeBSD and Linux News/discussion Intel On Demand Driver Ready To Activate Your Licensed CPU Features With Linux 6.2 […]
2.5 Admins 121: 2PHA
Saving money by changing the CPU frequency governor on servers, Making unphishable 2FA phishable, phishing with Google Docs, monitoring at scale, and using ZFS with a single disk. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD vs Linux – Networking Discussion Can You Save Money By Changing the CPU Frequency Governor on Your Servers? Making […]
2.5 Admins 120: Certified Malware
Security cameras that aren’t quite as secure as they claim, why it’s difficult to trust software “from Samsung”, getting started with offsite backups, and ZFS on root on Ubuntu. Plugs Support us on patreon the Role of Operating Systems in IoT News Anker’s Eufy lied to us about the security of its security […]
2.5 Admins 119: Six Month Scrub
The risks of taking your laptop to a repair shop, why DNS has become concentrated to just a few providers, and powering down drives periodically. Plugs Support us on patreon Virtualization Showdown: FreeBSD bhyve vs Linux KVM Discussion Thinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be very afraid DNS concentration […]
2.5 Admins 118: Chaos Emerald Wealth
Why the Twitter infrastructure is creaking, Jim’s experiences of the Ubuntu Summit, changing VM resources without rebooting, and more. News/discussion Why Twitter will fail shortly Twitter mayhem, staff cuts have advertisers bailing on the platform Jim tells us about his experiences at the Ubuntu Summit Free Consulting We were asked about WireGuard on […]