2.5 Admins 314: 50 PBS TBS
A TV station struggles to retrieve its data from the data centre company that a defunct intermediary used, why we don’t want AI to man...
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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 two weeks we g...
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20 of 314 episodes2.5 Admins 313: Cooking with NVMe
Microsoft claims that Windows 11 will work well with 8GB of RAM, some of the innovations coming to high end SSDs, the arguments for TP-Link...
2.5 Admins 312: Bus Factor
In a world where photos can no longer be trusted, Jim argues that we should move to a default distrust model where images are signed at ever...
2.5 Admins 311: Couch Cushions
Microsoft restored an account including files that it initially claimed wasn’t possible, Apple might lock down phones if people don...
2.5 Admins 310: GPLFreeBSD
Google wants you to use a selfie video for account recovery, LG will stop apps turning their smart TVs into residential proxy nodes, we disa...
2.5 Admins 309: Orbital Sauron
A new HTTP caching standard looks promising but might struggle to get adopted, a terrible space mirror idea is actually happening, cars will...
2.5 Admins 308: Sloppy Shims
Microsoft really wants your Windows settings data, secure boot has been useless for a decade, our thoughts on (the idea of) Incus and IncusO...
2.5 Admins 307: One Big Pool
Follow-up on rebooting to update, portable power stations, glass storage, and objective news sources. Plus whether to use one ZFS pool per v...
2.5 Admins 306: WiFi Cable
Why setting up commercial email and VPN services is incredibly hard, avoiding TrueNAS’s move from FreeBSD to Linux, why we avoid virtu...
2.5 Admins 305: Short Two
The one tool in our IT tool belt that we value the most. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break. See our contact page...
2.5 Admins 304: Wiring a House
Wiring up a house for networking including cables, access points, connectors, and racks. Plus Google is found liable for what its AI overvie...
2.5 Admins 303: Denial of Secrets
People were locked out of their password managers to stop a brute force attack, Coreutils come to Windows, a FreeBSD PR effort backfires, an...
2.5 Admins 302: ClawPilot
Microsoft threatens a security researcher for disclosing vulnerabilities publicly, bricks old versions of Office, and announces their versio...
2.5 Admins 301: F(OSS) Consulting
It looks like Bitlocker had a back door in it, how a listener accidentally broke Gitea for users of the snap version, Google accidentally pu...
2.5 Admins 300: IPvWot?
Why a proposal for an alternative to IPv6 is unlikely to be viable, Microsoft really doesn’t want you to run Exchange Server on-prem,...
2.5 Admins 299: RMAggravation
People trying to return defective hard drives and RAM are finding out why consumer protection laws would be good, GoDaddy accidentally gave...
2.5 Admins 298: Windows Postdate
Microsoft is encouraging employees with the most experience to leave the company and letting users pause Windows updates forever, some of th...
2.5 Admins 297: Jraphics
Hitting the limit for hard links, a parent struggles to get back into their teen’s compromised Discord account, the demise of tower PC...
2.5 Admins 296: Beware of the Leopard
Microsoft locks devs out of important accounts, the foreign router ban exemptions make even less sense, Backblaze shows that “unlimite...
2.5 Admins 295: Orbital Meltdown
Why putting data center satellites in orbit is a terrible idea, Google might show people a made-up version of your website, and ZFS on reall...