Podcasts by 2.5 Admins
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 week we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
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2.5 Admins 35: More free consulting from 2023-12-12T19:27:49.546144
We answer a bunch of your questions about server hardening, managing ZFS snapshots, Docusign, SSL certs in air-gapped networks, and automating updates. Plugs EuroBSDCon 2021 Call for Papers Suppo...
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2.5 Admins 172: HOLEy ZFS from 2023-12-07T20:25:27
Jim and Allan break down the details of the recent ZFS data corruption bug, and give their tips for managing a fleet of 40+ servers. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with ea...
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2.5 Admins 171: RSA PSA from 2023-11-30T17:56:22
Why a small island nation’s top level domain ended up with such a terrible reputation, an ssh vulnerability that’s not as scary as it sounds, whether software can be “finished”, and using powerline...
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2.5 Admins 170: Uninterruptible WiFi from 2023-11-23T17:56:38
Why and how Allan installed a set of new Power over Ethernet wireless access points, and our hardware recommendations for a media server and NAS in one. Allan’s new WiFi setup Access points Contr...
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2.5 Admins 169: SDCoF from 2023-11-16T17:56:22
A Cloudflare outage shines a light on sloppy data center practices, and why you shouldn’t run a mail server at home. Plus followup on the Android multi-user bug, package managers on Windows, and To...
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2.5 Admins 168: Do The Right Thing from 2023-11-09T21:54:47
Okta seems to not be taking its security seriously enough, crashing iPhones is far easier than it should be, Jim’s report from the Ubuntu Summit, and what to do when you find a company’s sensitive ...
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2.5 Admins 167: Delayed Flush from 2023-11-02T17:56:38
The large water consumption of AI and data centers in general, China’s big push towards IPv6, why we don’t talk about Toshiba hard drives very often, and the implications of poor Bluetooth security...
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2.5 Admins 166: 20 Second Cheque from 2023-10-26T20:21:53
What Google should do to prevent malware sites in their ads, why you might want to avoid using multiple profiles on Android devices, a speculative execution vulnerability in Apple Silicon, and the ...
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2.5 Admins 165: Big AI from 2023-10-19T16:56:09
The nuances of copyrighting AI-generated art, getting the best speeds with Samba, and building an SSD-only NAS. News/discussion Opinion: The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated a...
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2.5 Admins 164: Filthy Internet from 2023-10-12T16:56:01
Why enabling password autofill isn’t a great idea, Jim’s adventures in network repair, and setting up a home router/WiFi hotspot. Feedback Don’t use autofill on your password manager Story Time...
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2.5 Admins 163: Two Factors One SPOF from 2023-10-05T16:56:01
A network breach teaches us all a valuable lesson about threat models, Allan and Jim’s TV setups, and picking the right external storage solution. Plugs Support us on patreon News/discussion Ho...
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2.5 Admins 162: Irresponsible Disclosure from 2023-09-28T20:34:41
Google and Apple do a bad job of disclosing a pretty serious vulnerability, why hard drives aren’t physically bigger, and setting up a distributed backup system with a group of friends. Plugs Sup...
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2.5 Admins 161: 5PiB Coffee Mug from 2023-09-21T16:56:35
The future of archive storage using lasers and ceramics, self-hosting an Internet archive, more on Windows 11 Home, and setting up storage inside VMs. Plugs Support us on patreon Jim and Allan ho...
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2.5 Admins 160: Diss Unity from 2023-09-14T22:04:55
Unity causes a stink with its new pricing model, running out of disk space causes a very expensive problem, how one-off promotional domains can come back to bite you, and picking the hardware and s...
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2.5 Admins 159: Dirty Install from 2023-09-07T16:56:09
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 w...
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2.5 Admins 158: It Doesn’t Go to 10 from 2023-08-31T19:34:43
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 s...
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2.5 Admins 157: Lincoln’s HDD from 2023-08-24T16:56:57
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 u...
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2.5 Admins 156: SanDisk Extreme Fail from 2023-08-17T18:39:35
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 s...
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2.5 Admins 155: Dialup Memories from 2023-08-10T16:56:27
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 ann...
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2.5 Admins 154: 8.8.8.8.8.8 from 2023-08-03T20:13:07
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 bo...
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2.5 Admins 153: Robots.nope from 2023-07-27T16:56:48
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 ...
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2.5 Admins 152: AirTags Use CR2032 Batteries from 2023-07-20T19:51:05
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 o...
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2.5 Admins 151: Practical ZFS from 2023-07-13T16:56:16
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-replacea...
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2.5 Admins 150: Red Hate from 2023-07-06T19:45:43
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 doin...
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2.5 Admins 149: Three Year Warning from 2023-06-29T16:56:53
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, alterna...
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2.5 Admins 148: API Ultra 7 Pro for Workstations from 2023-06-22T16:56:44
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 th...
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2.5 Admins 147: EPYC Fail from 2023-06-15T16:56:07
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...
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2.5 Admins 146: VisionForge from 2023-06-08T20:03:39
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...
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2.5 Admins 145: Bad Standards from 2023-06-01T16:56:52
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...
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2.5 Admins 144: AMRadio.zip from 2023-05-25T18:48:08
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 f...
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2.5 Admins 143: Even Stars Die from 2023-05-18T16:56:53
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 keyfi...
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2.5 Admins 142: Intel Key Party from 2023-05-12T00:46:29
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 f...
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2.5 Admins 141: Sysadmin Hunt from 2023-05-04T16:56:39
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 powerc...
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2.5 Admins 140: /dev/nullvad from 2023-04-27T19:43:11
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. Pl...
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2.5 Admins 139: Just Abandon Twitter from 2023-04-20T16:56:16
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 ...
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2.5 Admins 138: Drive Failure from 2023-04-13T16:56:37
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...
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2.5 Admins 137: Schrodinger’s Backup from 2023-04-06T16:56:57
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 mana...
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2.5 Admins 136: Red Scare from 2023-03-30T19:01:23
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. ...
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2.5 Admins 135: Moonshots from 2023-03-23T16:56:29
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 S...
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2.5 Admins 134: 2guys1tesla from 2023-03-16T20:58:15
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: Tra...
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2.5 Admins 133: ElasticWallet from 2023-03-09T16:56
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 ...
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2.5 Admins 132: 1.5FA from 2023-03-02T20:30:05
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: ZF...
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2.5 Admins 131: At Least Try from 2023-02-23T16:56:40
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 patre...
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2.5 Admins 130: HotBot Topic from 2023-02-16T20:53:57
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. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara Live Webinar,...
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2.5 Admins 129: 2.5aDMiNs.cOm from 2023-02-09T16:56:23
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...
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2.5 Admins 128: Some Value from 2023-02-02T21:35:09
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 accoun...
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2.5 Admins 127: Public Why-Fi from 2023-01-26T16:56:25
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 ...
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2.5 Admins 126: Copy on Flight from 2023-01-19T23:03
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: P...
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2.5 Admins 125: Into Thin Eir from 2023-01-12T16:56:36
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 e...
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2.5 Admins 124: LastMigration from 2023-01-05T20:57:38
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 ...
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2.5 Admins 123: 4 from 2022-12-29T16:56:42
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 inf...
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2.5 Admins 122: PayAsYouPay from 2022-12-22T16:56:39
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 patr...
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2.5 Admins 121: 2PHA from 2022-12-15T16:56:27
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 u...
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2.5 Admins 120: Certified Malware from 2022-12-08T23:02:59
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 ...
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2.5 Admins 119: Six Month Scrub from 2022-12-01T16:56:44
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 Showdo...
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2.5 Admins 118: Chaos Emerald Wealth from 2022-11-24T21:15:59
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...
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2.5 Admins 117: Local Burner from 2022-11-17T16:56:22
Microsoft’s half-baked Arm machine, why it’s a bad idea to go to the World Cup in Qatar, using WireGuard to punch through double NAT, and the best filesystem for removable storage. With guest host ...
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2.5 Admins 116: Worst Billionaire from 2022-11-10T16:56:05
Android’s controversial VPN settings, the deepfake audio arms race, the Metaverse is even worse than we thought, and why you shouldn’t use external cables for server storage. With guest host Alex K...
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2.5 Admins 115: Key Party from 2022-11-03T16:56:10
Password spray attacks, the value of certifications vs actual experience, and the best VPN strategy. News/discussion Use Authentication Policies to Fight Password Spray Attacks Free Consulting ...
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2.5 Admins 114: RAID WTF from 2022-10-27T16:56:45
An impressive AI pretends to be Linux, Jim gets angry about a RAIDZ calculator, and using a laptop as a server. News/discussion We interviewed Linux OS through an AI bot to discover its secrets ...
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2.5 Admins 113: Eggs and Baskets from 2022-10-20T16:56:10
Traditional vs modern backup methods, hiding malware inside innocent-looking files, and power loss protection in SSDs. News/discussion Steganography alert: Backdoor spyware stashed in Microsoft l...
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2.5 Admins 112: Reuse>Recycle from 2022-10-13T22:17:22
A drone-delivered exploit system, why companies destroy perfectly good hardware, and pulling backups from a Windows machine. Plugs Support us on patreon iX and Klara – The Open Source Era is Upon...
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2.5 Admins 111: The Freezer Trick from 2022-10-06T16:56:23
SSDs are probably more reliable than spinning hard drives, how much RAM you actually need, Cloudflare alternatives, sudo password security, and more. Plugs Support us on patreon the History of Pa...
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2.5 Admins 110: Border Gateway Currency from 2022-09-29T22:26:20
How a BGP hijack facilitated the theft of $235k worth of crypto, why we aren’t too excited about Cloudflare’s new CAPTCHA, and how to configure ZFS on Proxmox. Plugs Support us on patreon Deployi...
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2.5 Admins 109: Selling Technical Debt from 2022-09-22T16:56:55
Why solving network congestion issues is so difficult, our thoughts on DNS privacy, an unwise use case for 32-bit Linux, and PoE injectors vs switches. Discussion The Math Proves It—Network Conge...
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2.5 Admins 108: dQw4w9WgXcQ from 2022-09-15T22:47:41
Why modern interfaces suck, the reasons we don’t recommend Cloudflare, and backups for beginners. With guest host Gary from Linux Downtime (and Pidgin). News/discussion Blocking Kiwifarms The mod...
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2.5 Admins 107: s/smart//g from 2022-09-08T16:56:30
Why the W3C is struggling to move to HTTPS by default and follow-up on Certbot, monitoring, and Silverlight. Plus buying enterprise switches. News/discussion W3C’s planned transition to HTTPS sty...
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2.5 Admins 106: Wrap Your Deenis from 2022-09-01T20:32:15
A big change is coming to Windows licensing for VMs, Google changes the rules around VPNs on Android, and solving a DoH problem. Plugs Support us on patreon EuroBSDCon Sept 15-18 Vienna, Austria ...
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2.5 Admins 105: Old Men Yell at Cloud from 2022-08-25T16:56:37
The pros and cons of using email aliases, an Internet hero scratches his own itch, Jim and Allan yell at the cloud, and choosing a firewall distro. News/discussion The Security Pros and Cons of ...
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2.5 Admins 104: Bathtub Map from 2022-08-18T22:04:35
Amazon is acquiring lots of home floor plans, Google will let politicians spam its Gmail users, burning in new drives, and ZFS scrub best practises. Plugs Support us on patreon EuroBSDCon Sept 15...
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2.5 Admins 103: AAD the SQL from 2022-08-11T16:56:12
Good and bad from Meta/Facebook, data centres in London are hogging all the power, separating databases from applications, picking a DB, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark. Plug...
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2.5 Admins 102: Admins After Dark from 2022-08-04T18:45:52
The consequences of accrued technical debt and how to avoid it, a serious security issue in Confluence, Proxmox’s poor ZFS config, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark. Plugs Supp...
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2.5 Admins 101: Atomic Database from 2022-07-28T16:54:28
Jim and Allan’s thoughts on GitHub Copilot, why you can’t take the bar exam on modern Intel hardware, and database VM snapshot consistency. Plugs Contributing to Open Source: Beyond Software Deve...
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2.5 Admins 100: 💯 from 2022-07-21T23:36:40
More on abandoned hardware, central auth, Internet Explorer, Antivirus, monitoring, speed testing, and more. Plugs Watch Jim and Allan’s webinar: Getting started with bhyve Support us on patreon ...
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2.5 Admins 99: 00000000 from 2022-07-14T16:56:27
A PSA about cheap hard drives, a major Internet outage in Canada, Apple’s new Lockdown Mode, and hostnames and DNS. Plugs From 0 to Bhyve on FreeBSD 13.1 Support us on patreon News PSA: buyer ...
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2.5 Admins 98: Lemonade from 2022-07-07T16:56:10
Picking the right switch, clustering Raspberry Pis, dynamic DNS, replacing a desktop PC, work-life balance, and more. Kolide Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux ...
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2.5 Admins 97: Gotta Go Fast from 2022-06-30T16:58:31
The best ways to test your Internet speed, more on filesystem caching, monitoring servers at scale, and more. Plugs ZFS Developer job description Webinar: Open-source Virtualization: Getting Star...
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2.5 Admins 96: Skunky Routers from 2022-06-23T16:56:20
Internet Explorer is dead, Cisco small business routers that need to be junked, antivirus on Linux servers, and you’ll never guess what Jim and Allan recommend for easily rolling back updates. Pl...
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2.5 Admins 95: Opened in 45 Seconds from 2022-06-16T16:56:04
The finer points of allocating VM resources, Jim is annoyed with the browser situation on Ubuntu desktop, and when you should have passwords on your SSH keys. Plugs ZFS Developer job description ...
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2.5 Admins 94: Free IPv4s, Click Here! from 2022-06-09T20:04:42
Freeing up millions of IPv4 addresses, WSL 2 comes to Windows Server, why cert renewal should be automated, what to do with SMR drives, and more. Plugs ZFS Developer job description Support us on...
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2.5 Admins 93: Bhyve Mind from 2022-06-02T16:56:54
A Linux user tries out FreeBSD’s Bhyve hypervisor, choosing storage for a VMware ESXi server, and perfect use case for WireGuard. Discussion Jim has been testing Bhyve Free Consulting We were a...
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2.5 Admins 92: End to End to End from 2022-05-26T18:28:43
End-to-end encryption is under threat again, Broadcom is buying VMware, prison time for an angry DBA, and backing up your photos with encryption. Plugs Evaluating FreeBSD-CURRENT for Production U...
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2.5 Admins 91: The Deenis from 2022-05-19T16:56:36
More on Ubuntu mirrors and DNS, detecting advanced persistent threats, resilient backups, and open source Active Directory alternatives. Plugs bhyve: the BSD hypervisor Support us on patreon Fe...
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2.5 Admins 90: 2 Admins from 2022-05-12T19:56:35
Another attempt to replace passwords, trying to solve the problem of write-once storage, and the unusual ways we manage our invoices. Plugs EuroBSDCon CfP: September 15-18, 2022 in Vienna, Austri...
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2.5 Admins 89: Warm Storage from 2022-05-05T16:56:46
How long optical disks last and why cold storage isn’t usually worth it, VM security, more thoughts on crypto nonsense, and more. Plugs Learning the Fundamentals of the FreeBSD Shell Support us o...
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2.5 Admins 88: Great Scott from 2022-04-28T22:20:25
Musk buys Twitter, Ubuntu’s ZFS on root snapshot tool is put on the back burner, and setting up your own apt mirror. Plugs Build your own NAS, Part 2: Tuning Support us on patreon News Elon Mus...
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2.5 Admins 87: Unplanned Obsolescence from 2022-04-21T16:56:21
Yet another IoT company abandons its customers, ridiculous “hard drives”, Postrges with containers, and cloud storage that isn’t quite as good as it sounds. With guest host Alex Kretzschmar from th...
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2.5 Admins 86: Reluctant Sysadmin from 2022-04-14T20:21:04
The new features in OpenSSH, an embarrassing outage, the ugly side of Apple’s AirTags, and securing SSH keys when using Git. With guest host Dalton Durst from Linux After Dark. Plugs Improving Re...
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2.5 Admins 85: Textbook Scam from 2022-04-07T16:56:22
CAPTCHAs in phishing attacks, Jim gets angry about Bitcoin propaganda in schools, and packet loss with UDP. Plugs Tuning OpenZFS Record size Support us on patreon Discussion How CAPTCHA puzzles...
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2.5 Admins 84: Open Source Sabotage from 2022-03-31T19:27:32
An open source dev goes rogue, a big single sign-on provider is compromised, self-hosting DNS, and more. Plugs Should I upgrade to OpenZFS 2.1? Support us on patreon News BIG sabotage: Famous n...
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2.5 Admins 83: Solid State Bathtubs from 2022-03-24T17:56:57
SSD reliability, a huge potential amplification DDoS attack, and learning how a mail server works. Plugs Webinar: Improving Recovery Objectives with OpenZFS Support us on patreon News Backblaze...
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2.5 Admins 82: Oil, Gold, and Firstborn from 2022-03-17T23:46:56
Our concerns about Google’s latest acquisition, the technical implications of the sanctions on Russia, more on VPNs and filesystem replacements, and using Nagios with Sanoid. Plugs Controlling Re...
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2.5 Admins 81: Don’t Pay from 2022-03-10T17:56:31
How not to solve some of the problems with filesystems, why backups are only part of defending your data, and Allan finally tells us the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Plugs NFS Sharing ...
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2.5 Admins 80: 100 Emoji from 2022-03-03T23:53:04
Browser version numbers might break websites, Samsung’s bad crypto implementation, more on Mazda and Caddy, the FreeBSD init system, and keeping VMs in sync between the two physical hosts. Plugs ...
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2.5 Admins 79: Flex your disks from 2022-02-24T17:56:02
Maintaining data long-term, Chrome OS comes to generic PCs, and how to detect intrusions and malware on servers and networks. Plugs The FreeBSD Boot Process Support us on patreon News/discussio...
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2.5 Admins 78: MAZDA~1.BMP from 2022-02-18T00:45:49
Why Arm was never likely to be acquired by Nvidia, an expensive bug in Mazda cars, and how there isn’t always a technical solution to a policy problem. Plugs Unix: On the path to BSD Support us o...
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2.5 Admins 77: The Joe Ressington Experience from 2022-02-10T17:56:53
What the recent Spotify controversy means for open podcasting standards, why young people increasingly don’t understand the concept of a hierarchical filesystem, and our update practices. Plugs M...
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2.5 Admins 76: Horses for Courses from 2022-02-03T19:43:11
The pain of updating Windows, FreeBSD vs Linux, and getting started with ZFS. Plugs FreeBSD Periodic Scripts Support us on patreon News/discussion Microsoft: Windows needs at least 8 hours onli...
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2.5 Admins 75: Burning Fiber from 2022-01-27T17:56:45
Allan has a recent war story for us, Microsoft blocked email from Linode, maximizing performance in a large capacity storage server, and more. Plugs Cluster Provisioning with Nomad and Pot Suppor...
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2.5 Admins 74: Virtual Pointless Network from 2022-01-20T21:24:27
A potential new European recursive DNS, why VPNs aren’t the silver bullet some people think they are, and how we set up new systems from scratch. Plugs Support us on patreon The Birth of Unix N...
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2.5 Admins 73: QR Choad from 2022-01-13T17:56:03
A novel approach to an old scam, your feedback about web servers and ransomware, and maintaining old databases. Plugs Packet Scheduling with Dummynet and FreeBSD Support us on patreon News/Disc...
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2.5 Admins 72: Email Cartel from 2022-01-06T21:28:40
Microsoft suffers an embarrassment with Exchange, why it’s so hard to host your own email, and the easiest and safest way to manage your backups. Plugs BSDCan 2022: June 1-4th. CFP Closes Jan 19t...
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2.5 Admins 71: Recover Calmly from 2021-12-30T17:56:26
Why ransomware isn’t really an infosec problem, how some open source work Allan helped with saved a company millions of dollars, your feedback, and more. Plugs OpenZFS: Native Encryption Support ...
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2.5 Admins 70: Xmas AMA from 2021-12-23T17:56:42
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 wit...
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2.5 Admins 69: Nice from 2021-12-16T17:56:57
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...
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2.5 Admins 68: Shuckchain from 2021-12-09T23:50:16
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...
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2.5 Admins 67: Haitch from 2021-12-02T17:56
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...
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2.5 Admins 66: Lack of Entropy from 2021-11-26T00:13:38
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...
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2.5 Admins 65: Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten from 2021-11-18T17:56:58
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...
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2.5 Admins 64: Augmented Dystopia from 2021-11-11T20:10:41
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 pat...
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2.5 Admins 63: Unlocking the Future from 2021-11-04T17:56:56
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 A...
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2.5 Admins 62: Top Notch from 2021-10-28T20:50:14
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 Understand...
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2.5 Admins 61: Alice and Bob from 2021-10-21T16:54:02
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 Free...
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2.5 Admins 60: Butter Fingers from 2021-10-14T20:20:17
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 Cer...
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2.5 Admins 59: Megaphone in the Middle from 2021-10-07T16:56
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 Ar...
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2.5 Admins 58: Autocompromised from 2021-09-30T20:38:05
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 availab...
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2.5 Admins 57: Spherical Chickens from 2021-09-23T16:56:07
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 sta...
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2.5 Admins 56: OMIGOD root from 2021-09-16T19:14:01
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 o...
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2.5 Admins 55: WiFi in the Woods from 2021-09-09T16:56
A surprisingly cheap and easy way to connect 2 buildings wirelessly, your feedback about Samba, and the realities of parental Internet controls. Plugs Choosing the right ZFS pool layout Support u...
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2.5 Admins 54: Bait and Switch from 2021-09-02T20:52:36
SSD manufacturers quietly switching out components, 20TB non-SMR HDDs, the surprising side effects of killing the landline, ZFS snapshots when space is limited, and how Jim and Allan set up their s...
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2.5 Admins 53: Unexpected Root from 2021-08-26T16:56:05
How getting root might be easier for attackers than you think, what a new OS can teach us about open source development, and why you probably shouldn’t buy enterprise drives for your NAS. Plugs E...
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2.5 Admins 52: Notflix from 2021-08-19T19:17:15
Netflix blocking residential IPs, Intel’s upcoming discrete graphics cards, and the finer points of connecting disks to a RAID controller. Plugs Achieving RPO/RTO Objectives with ZFS – Part 2 Jim...
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2.5 Admins 51: Goodbye LISA from 2021-08-12T16:56:43
Why a large sysadmin conference shut down and what it means, roaming between multiple wireless access points, sending ZFS snapshots to the cloud, best practice for tunnelling between home and the c...
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2.5 Admins 50: Optimal Airtime from 2021-08-05T20:03:35
Huge improvements for WireGuard on Windows, and a brief update on the Framework Laptop. Plus why RAID is not a backup, when to use bare metal vs VMs, choosing database types, and more. Plugs Let’...
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2.5 Admins 49: Cuddle the Pegasus from 2021-07-29T16:56:39
Why the Pegasus spyware isn’t really anything new, a Windows vulnerability sends Jim and Allan down memory lane, what to do with old hard disks, your feedback, and more. Plugs FreeBSD TCP perform...
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2.5 Admins 48: PR Problem from 2021-07-22T20:14:20
Jim’s hands-on with the modular and upgradeable Framework laptop, the details of Muse Group’s latest controversy, and when backing up to a Pi in your friend’s basement sometimes makes sense. Plug...
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2.5 Admins 47: ZFS Rules, LTO Drools from 2021-07-15T16:56:54
The current and future states of system performance across the whole stack, and backing up to tapes. Plus your feedback about clustered filesystems, a ZFS success story, and IPv6 devices. News/Di...
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2.5 Admins 46: Not Actively Supported from 2021-07-08T20:28:29
Windows 11 has been announced but some key details are still unknown, why you shouldn’t connect consumer-grade network storage devices to the Internet, optimizing Windows guests on KVM hosts, and h...
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2.5 Admins 45: Weapons grade insecurity from 2021-07-01T16:56:51
Potentially serious vulnerabilities in military systems, a new ZFS feature that’s mostly for home users, and IPv6 on your LAN. Plugs FreeBSD Performance Observability Support us on patreon News...
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2.5 Admins 44: ZF yes! from 2021-06-24T19:53:55
Supply chain problems causing a rise in counterfeit chips, busting the myth about ZFS and RAM, gold VM images, and x86 routers. Plugs Introduction to ZFS replication Support us on patreon News ...
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2.5 Admins 43: Find my bandwidth from 2021-06-17T16:56:53
A potential order of magnitude increase in HDD sizes, Amazon Sidewalk, dying SSDs, planning new systems, ssh vs VPN logins, and more. Plugs History of ZFS: Part 2: Exploding in Popularity Support...
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2.5 Admins 42: Guru Medication from 2021-06-10T19:33:53
Fastly’s recent outage, how attackers probably breached the Colonial Pipeline’s network, crypto mining in anti-virus software, and setting up a box at your friend’s house to watch Netflix while abr...
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2.5 Admins 41: Swiss cheese security from 2021-06-03T16:56:49
Synology and Btrfs, backing up low-end Linux laptops, vulnerability management, FreeBSD hypervisors, and more. Plugs Building Customized FreeBSD Images Support us on patreon Feedback Things we ...
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2.5 Admins 40: Crown Prince of Freenode from 2021-05-27T19:42:58
The complex tale of the recent IRC drama, Microsoft kills Windows 10X, and why we think a WordPress site was pwned. News Microsoft puts Windows 10X variant on the back burner Freenode IRC staff r...
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2.5 Admins 39: Cacophony of starts from 2021-05-20T16:54:13
Testing failing disks and why they don’t work over a certain altitude, and your feedback about ZFS snapshots, authentication, community discussion platforms, Docker and ZFS, and more. Plugs Basic...
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2.5 Admins 38: Wires FTW from 2021-05-13T19:21:16
The importance of VPNs when using Wi-Fi, the complexities of chip node size, and whether appliance NAS devices make any sense. Plugs Getting the most out of ARM64 Support us on patreon News Fra...
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2.5 Admins 37: Exchanging shells from 2021-05-06T16:56:57
Authorities trying to remove malware from people’s servers, turning your sysadmin hobby into a career, cloud backups, config management, and more. Plugs Why you should consider the BSD license Su...
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2.5 Admins 36: Minnesota shower from 2021-04-29T19:39:39
GUI Linux apps on Windows, Linux kernel development is pen-tested, ZFS and Docker, and converting a Windows installation to a VM. Plugs FreeBSD IOStat EuroBSDCon 2021 CfP Support us on patreon ...
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2.5 Admins 34: Free consulting from 2021-04-15T19:37:41
We answer a bunch of your questions about firewalls, best practices for backups, learning ZFS, QoS, SSH key management, backing up Google Drive, and more. Links to things mentioned Unix Haters Ha...
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2.5 Admins 33: Delete C: from 2021-04-08T16:54:37
Thousands of students learn about backups the hard way, whysecuring all of DNS isn’t practical, and how to protect Internet-facing services running at home. News Victoria University of Wellington...
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2.5 Admins 32: Unifail from 2021-04-01T18:21:51
Our first look at the next generation of Arm, alarming claims about a recent Ubiquiti breach, and setting up a FreeBSD file server. Plugs Customizing the FreeBSD Kernel Check out Joe’s albums Sup...
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2.5 Admins 31: HD bit flips from 2021-03-25T17:56:40
How we’ll get to 100TB hard disks by the end of the decade, the potential dangers of flipped bits in network traffic, how to organize multiple copies of your backups, and managing dynamic DNS. Pl...
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2.5 Admins 30: Hot storage from 2021-03-18T19:49:04
The OVH data center fire and related tales, drama with WireGuard in FreeBSD, why you should plug your flash drives in regularly, and more. News OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg OVH...
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2.5 Admins 29: Supply pain from 2021-03-11T17:56:06
Why it’s so hard to build a PC these days, finding help for ZFS issues, getting started with a homebrew router, and more. Plugs The history of ARM and FreeBSD Support us on patreon Discussion W...
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2.5 Admins 28: Cluster fsck from 2021-03-04T20:00:57
Why hard disks will be around for ever, bad news for VR, slowdown from disk I/O, and when clustering isn’t necessarily the best solution. Plugs Register for Open Source 101 OpenZFS: dRAID is comi...
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2.5 Admins 27: Learning to say no from 2021-02-25T17:56:23
Where we draw the line when supporting friends and family, monitoring SSL certs, ZFS on single drives, Chromium finally cleans up its act, and more in this feedback-filled episode. Feedback Chrom...
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2.5 Admins 26: RISCy acquisition from 2021-02-18T20:08:17
Bad news for LastPass users, why Nvidia probably won’t buy Arm, what happens to our servers if we disappear, and using the cloud to avoid bottlenecks. Plugs FreeBSD Jails – The beginning of Conta...
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2.5 Admins 25: Fiat gaming from 2021-02-11T17:56:11
Stadia and game streaming, Bitcoin and Linux quirks in your feedback, and building a home server for more than just storage. Plugs Simple and Secure VPN in FreeBSD – Introducing WireGuard Support...
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2.5 Admins 24: Stonk amplification from 2021-02-04T20:16:59
Reddit trolls Wall Street, bad news for Parler’s new host, why you should learn iptables, and backing up S3-compatible buckets. Plugs History of FreeBSD Part 4: BSD and TCP/IP Support us on patre...
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2.5 Admins 23: Bitcoin hundredaire from 2021-01-28T17:56:31
The Bitcoin price is booming again so we take the chance to laugh at Allan for selling too early, then we discuss some of your emails including Arm/x86 combos, switching to Ubuntu, and the importan...
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2.5 Admins 22: Unexpected migrations from 2021-01-21T21:00:19
Why Parler is unlikely to come back any time soon, free RHEL, and using a VPS to subvert VPN limits. Plugs Exploring Swap on FreeBSD Support us on patreon News Amazon cuts off Parler’s Web host...
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2.5 Admins 21: Reproducible errors from 2021-01-14T11:56:03
The merits of ECC RAM, why reproducible builds are a good idea, and where to buy used equipment. Plugs Webinar: Introducing OpenZFS 2.0 Support us on patreon News/Discussion Linus Torvalds rail...
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2.5 Admins 20: Free money, claim it now! from 2021-01-07T21:28:43
A cruel but necessary phishing test, ancient standards in brand new legislation, using Windows when it makes sense, and commissioning and decommissioning servers. Plugs Webinar: Introducing OpenZ...
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2.5 Admins 19: nOauth? No gmail! from 2020-12-24T03:25
Why Google services like Gmail went down recently, the potentially promising future for RISC-V, and using ZFS for home and root. News Google Mail outage Google incident report New RISC-V CPU clai...
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2.5 Admins 18: False sense of privacy from 2020-12-10T20:57:49
Potentially improving DNS privacy, the big new ZFS release, and the best way to automate Linux installations. Plugs Webinar – Best Practices For Optimizing ZFS – Part 1 Support us on patreon Ne...
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2.5 Admins 17: CPU change from 2020-11-26T19:09:28
How Intel and AMD have fought it out over the years, Apple changes the industry with their M1 SoC, and we repeat the mantra that RAID is not a backup. Plugs Support us on patreon. If enough peopl...
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2.5 Admins 16: TANSTAAFL from 2020-11-12T20:48:46
Google proves that “unlimited” anything doesn’t exist, GitHub shenanigans, Apple’s new Arm computers, and which distro to start with as a sysadmin. Plugs Allan’s ZFS Webinar – Nov 18th, signup so...
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2.5 Admins 15: Fixed it for ya from 2020-10-29T19:30:42
We wade through Cloudfare’s marketing fluff, forced WordPress plugin updates, a bunch of your questions, and the shocking revelation that FreeBSD actually has graphics drivers. Plugs History of F...
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2.5 Admins 14: Not a database from 2020-10-15T20:10:40
How not to store test results, AMD firmly on top of the desktop space, what moving to remote work means for corporate networks, and deduplication of disorganized data. Plugs Allan’s summary of th...
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2.5 Admins 13: bs=1mebibyte from 2020-10-01T20:25:20
Intel almost catching up to AMD with Tiger Lake, the .uk fiasco, and why you shouldn’t be using dd. Plugs OpenZFS Developer Summit All Things Open 2020 Support us on patreon. If enough people do,...
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2.5 Admins 12: 5400 cyber RPMs from 2020-09-17T19:13:57
Cyber insurance for ransomware, more confusing WD specs, the truth behind the return of the Gateway brand, and managing config files. News Ransomware accounted for 41% of all cyber insurance clai...
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2.5 Admins 11: Monitoring the Internet from 2020-09-03T18:52:28
How Internet standards are decided, what a new one means for the Web, a surprising “feature” of Chrome, and the best ways to monitor your systems. News WebBundles Harmful to Content Blocking, Sec...
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2.5 Admins 10: Mini-PCs and HDDs from 2020-08-20T17:10:56
Low power x86 vs Arm boards, hard disk failure rates, and the intricacies of ZFS snapshots. Plugs OpenZFS Developer Summit Support the podcast on Patreon News Seeed Studio’s Odyssey is a mini-P...
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2.5 Admins 09: Horrible hosts from 2020-08-06T19:02
Intel’s 7nm woes, hosts files, Mozilla’s VPN service, and automating ssh between remote hosts. News Heads roll at Intel after 7nm delay Intel’s 7nm is busted, chips delayed, may have to use rival...
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2.5 Admins 08: Energy assisted drive recovery from 2020-07-23T17:52:56
New types of hard disks, recovering data from dying drives, AMD makes Jim reach for the calculator, and what to do with obscure software that you need. Plugs FreeBSD Fridays: A Series of 101 Clas...
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2.5 Admins 07: Fail dumpster fire from 2020-07-09T20:03:25
Initial Arm Mac benchmarks are out and they aren’t terrible, getting the best transfer speeds over USB, and rolling our own home routers. Plugs FreeBSD Bug Squash Support the podcast on Patreon ...
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2.5 Admins 06: BFYTW from 2020-06-25T19:47:56
Jim bought the worst laptop in the world, a quick update on SMR drives, learning the basics of ZFS, and updating air-gapped servers. Plug Support the podcast on Patreon News We bought Walmart’s...
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2.5 Admins 05: IPv6 when? from 2020-06-11T18:22:14
When the world will move to IPv6, WD SMR drives put to the test, raw vs qcow2 on ZFS, and erasing SSDs. Plug Support the podcast on Patreon News It could be ‘five to ten years’ before the world...
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2.5 Admins 04: Zooming from pets to cattle from 2020-05-28T19:12:21
Zoom’s new encryption, podcasts in walled gardens, and servers as pets vs cattle. Plug Support the podcast on Patreon News Zoom to require users to upgrade to 5.0 after May 30th Zoom bought Key...
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2.5 Admins 03: Apache’s Btr than you think from 2020-05-14T18:49:06
Why Apache is still relevant in 2020, and the differences between ZFS and Btrfs. Plugs Allan’s BSDCan Homelab panel Allan on setns.live Support the podcast on Patreon Apache vs Nginx Apache 101...
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2.5 Admins 02: Updating to Arm from 2020-05-01T00:27:31
Our thoughts on DNS-over-HTTPS, whether Arm is about to take over, HDD advice, and automatic updates and reboots. Plugs Help us keep the lights on by supporting us on Patreon. Watch Allan’s Homel...
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2.5 Admins 01: ZFS love-fest from 2020-04-24T02:04:02
In our first episode, Allan Jude, Jim Salter, and Joe Ressington discuss Amazon cutting affiliate rates, SMR hard drives, and setting up off-site backups on the cheap. News Amazon reportedly plan...
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