2.5 Admins

2.5 Admins 324: Less Canadian

A bug in APT shines a light on a long-standing issue, backing up databases in containers, the pros and cons of using FreeBSD to host Linux VMs, network isolation for VMs,

2.5 Admins 323: No /boot For You

Why you should be watching for SSL certificates that you didn’t issue, Let’s Encrypt is shortening the length of certs to 64 days, Ubuntu tightens up GRUB with secure boo

2.5 Admins 322: Internet Defrigeration

Supermarkets found out why their fridges shouldn’t be on the Internet and Samsung smart fridges broke after a firmware update, why we don’t recommend MoCA, some tips for

2.5 Admins 321: Backup Strategy

Why batteries in homes could benefit everyone involved, why we didn’t bring up wake-on-LAN when someone asked about keeping a NAS powered on as little as possible, buildi

2.5 Admins 320: Dining on Goose

Google offers a few pennies to web publishers to make up for stealing their content and not sending them any traffic, the tech we’d try to use after the apocalypse, why J

2.5 Admins 319: Funding Open Source

The challenges of funding open source software projects, how Netflix uses FreeBSD in a positive way, why you shouldn’t try to complicate your monitoring, and running serv

2.5 Admins 318: End of Exchange

Microsoft really wants you to update your Exchange server, our thoughts on immutable distros, more on Jim’s approach to internet access for his kids, restricting access t

2.5 Admins 317: Need Less

Some of the ways you can mitigate the ridiculous hardware prices, and designing a small business LAN.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with so

2.5 Admins 316: BGP Clipboard Hijack

A BGP hijack involved some basic errors, Microsoft teaches people to ignore warnings in Windows, Zoom appears to be reading the clipboard on X11, why a non-US open certif

2.5 Admins 315: Hot Bus Adapter

What to read into a study of long-term Backblaze hard drive failure data, why the difference between TB and TiB matters, and what to do about an overheating host bus adap

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 manage our networks (even if Microsoft

2.5 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 Omada over Ubiquiti UniFi.  

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 every stage of the process of crea

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’t keep up their lease payments, ZFS sc

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 disagree about how serious OpenAI’

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 spy on us all, and picking a

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 IncusOS, and configuring ZFS for a L

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 vdev, or just one large pool.

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 virtualising storage systems, and bridgin

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 for w