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2.5 Admins 76: Horses for Courses

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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 online to update reliably Why we’re migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD Counterpoint to “FreeBSD’s network stack is better” Free […]

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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 03: Apache’s Btr than you think: 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 Free Consulting Several people including Emil have a... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 62: Top Notch: 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 Understanding top(1) on FreeBSD Support us on patreon News AMD ... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 61: Alice and Bob: 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 FreeBSD – October 28th @ 12:00 ET FreeBSD Developer Worksta... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 02: Updating to Arm: 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 Homelab panel recording for BSDCan 2020 on May 5th, by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 04: Zooming from pets to cattle: 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 Keybase in early May Joe Rogan will move his podcast to Sp... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 05: IPv6 when?: 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 finally drags itself away from IPv4 We put Western Dig... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 01: ZFS love-fest: 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 planning drastic cuts to affiliate commission rates Buyer... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 72: Email Cartel: 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 19th Support us on patreon News/discussion Microsoft rel... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 57: Spherical Chickens: 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 stack Support us on patreon News/Discussion WhatsApp “en... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 06: BFYTW: 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 $140 laptop so you wouldn’t have to Lawsuit vs. by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 64: Augmented Dystopia: 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 patreon News Welcome to Meta Intel’s Alder Lake big. by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 63: Unlocking the Future by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 07: Fail dumpster fire: 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 News First benchmarks surface for Apple’s ARM-based De... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 56: OMIGOD root: 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 on patreon News Security researchers at Wiz discover a... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 58: Autocompromised: 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 available When to use a SLOG, by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 85: Textbook Scam: 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 cloak phishing page URLs in emails Jim gets mad about ... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 68: Shuckchain: 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 Allan was on Late Night Linux Extra talking about Free... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 78: MAZDA~1.BMP: 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 on patreon News Arm’s $66bn sale to Nvidia collapses I... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 65: Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten: 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 FreeBSD Papers We Love: Jails and Cloneable Network St... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 69: Nice: 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 known security issues Support us on patreon News/Dis... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 60: Butter Fingers: 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 Certificate Management on FreeBSD – October 28th @ 12:00 E... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 59: Megaphone in the Middle: 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 Architecture on the Block Support us on patreon News/Di... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 83: Solid State Bathtubs: 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 report finds SSDs as reliable as HDDs New method that ... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 66: Lack of Entropy: 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 Linux twice, as well as Late Night Linux Extra. by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 71: Recover Calmly: 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 us on patreon News/Discussion Kronos hack will likely... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 70: Xmas AMA: 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 with Ampere Support us on patreon Linode Simplify yo... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 87: Unplanned Obsolescence: 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 the Self-Hosted podcast. by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 80: 100 Emoji: 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 UNIX Philosophy: The ideas that made UNIX Improving Rec... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 77: The Joe Ressington Experience: 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 Modern inetd on FreeBSD Support us on patreon Discussi... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 67: Haitch: 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 testing network quality. by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 76: Horses for Courses

2.5 Admins 76: Horses for Courses

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