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 159: Dirty Install
The user experience on fresh installations of Windows and Edge is terrible and we get to the bottom of why. Unfortunately the reason isn’t exclusive to Microsoft’s offerings – it’s a pattern that we’ve seen from numerous companies, even Mozilla. Plus why it’s a bad idea to power your server on and off regularly. […]
2.5 Admins 158: It Doesn’t Go to 10
Dropbox once again proves that there is no such thing as “unlimited” anything, Intel isn’t going to support WiFi 7 on Windows 10 (but it doesn’t really matter), managing ssh keys, setting up data storage for containers, and more on IPMI for Raspberry Pis. Plugs Support us on patreon News Dropbox limits ‘all […]
2.5 Admins 157: Lincoln’s HDD
CNET’s SEO attempts once again show that nothing lasts forever, why the reports of the death of the mechanical hard drive are greatly exaggerated, and home-made IPMI on the cheap. Plugs Support us on Patreon News/discussion The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google Coughlin: SSDs will […]
2.5 Admins 156: SanDisk Extreme Fail
Why fully remote work is on the wane as Zoom drags employees back to the office and Bluejeans is shut down, the Sandisk SSDs that keep failing, and how and why you should use ECC RAM in your home server if you can. Plugs Support us on Patreon News Zoom has “Zoom fatigue,” […]
2.5 Admins 155: Dialup Memories
Allan and Jim reminisce about the early days of connecting to the Internet, and what inspired them to become sysadmins in the first place. Plus recovering old versions of files, and an exciting announcement about the show. Plugs 2.5 Admins is now part of the Late Night Linux Family. Support us on Patreon […]
2.5 Admins 154: 8.8.8.8.8.8
Why the increasing trend of charging for public IPv4 addresses won’t change much, Google trials restricting its employees’ Internet access, and operating systems uploading firmware to devices at boot. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara 2023 Recommended Summer Reads – FreeBSD and Linux News New – AWS Public IPv4 Address Charge + Public […]
2.5 Admins 153: Robots.nope
Updating the robots.txt standard for the AI era, the US government implements an IoT certification and labeling system, and the issues with fully encrypting a server. Plugs Support us on patreon 3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server Operating System News/discussion Google suggests updating the robots.txt standard Robots.txt is not the answer: […]
2.5 Admins 152: AirTags Use CR2032 Batteries
Intel is giving up on NUCs and Asus is taking over the line, millions of classified US military emails are going to a Russian ally thanks to a common typo, and monitoring SSDs. Plugs Support us on patreon Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls – Part 2 News Intel is quitting on its adorable, powerful, […]
2.5 Admins 151: Practical ZFS
Setting up a self-hosted alternative, what counts as a “removable” battery, and backing up a Windows machine to ZFS. News/discussion Practical ZFS Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries Free Consulting We were asked about backing up a Windows machine to ZFS. HelloFresh With HelloFresh, you […]
2.5 Admins 150: Red Hate
Red Hat wants to limit redistribution of RHEL source code. We discuss their history with CentOS and the likely knock-on effects of taking direct aim at its customers’ GPL rights. Plus browsers doing port scans, and OpenWrt vs OPNsense. News Red Hat’s new source code policy and the intense pushback, explained Brave aims to […]
2.5 Admins 149: Three Year Warning
WD disks “warning” that they have been running for 3 years, a modern replacement for IMAP that no one seems to be using, the potential issues that arise when PC games require an SSD to run, alternatives to VMware, and verifying your backups. News/discussion “Clearly predatory”: Western Digital sparks panic, anger for age-shaming HDDs […]
2.5 Admins 148: API Ultra 7 Pro for Workstations
Reddit fails to see where its true value lies, Intel makes its consumer CPU lines confusing, and Microsoft’s “next generation” filesystem. News What Reddit Got Wrong Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’ Intel has new labels for its next major CPU architecture Free Consulting We were asked about Microsoft’s “next […]
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 […]