2.5 Admins podcast

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.

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.

 

#286

2.5 Admins 286: Windows Crashed

Notepad++ falls victim to a state-sponsored attacker, AI agents talk nonsense to each othe... more

Yesterday

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25:41

Yesterday


#285

2.5 Admins 285: example.com.oops

Outlook’s autodiscover feature is leaking data again, our thoughts on the cycle of c... more

05 Feb 2026

27 MINS

27:41

05 Feb 2026


#284

2.5 Admins 284: BooTooth

Why you might not want your Windows encryption keys to be backed up to Microsoft, some Blu... more

29 Jan 2026

26 MINS

26:08

29 Jan 2026


#283

2.5 Admins 283: FSOD

The last method to activate Windows without the Internet has gone away, malware that trick... more

22 Jan 2026

25 MINS

25:10

22 Jan 2026


#282

2.5 Admins 282: Fragile DNS

Cisco network gear fell over when it shouldn’t have, yet another security flaw is fo... more

15 Jan 2026

28 MINS

28:51

15 Jan 2026


#281

2.5 Admins 281: Lead The Target

The many reasons why email shouldn’t be trusted. Plus how to stop your kids accessin... more

08 Jan 2026

26 MINS

26:37

08 Jan 2026


#280

2.5 Admins 280: Bad Parking

Why you should probably keep paying for your old domains, the perpetual problem of typo sq... more

01 Jan 2026

26 MINS

26:25

01 Jan 2026


#279

2.5 Admins 279: Short One

The one bit of advice we’d give to someone wanting to become a professional sysadmin... more

25 Dec 2025

07 MINS

07:21

25 Dec 2025


#278

2.5 Admins 278: XXXfil

Apple deletes a person’s entire digital life, PornHub Premium user data is leaked, M... more

18 Dec 2025

26 MINS

26:06

18 Dec 2025


#277

2.5 Admins 277: Battering RAM

The Crucial brand of consumer SSDs and RAM is going away, AMD and Intel memory encryption ... more

11 Dec 2025

28 MINS

28:34

11 Dec 2025


#276

2.5 Admins 276: Very Prudish Network

What a government crackdown on VPNs would look like, malware groups play the long game wit... more

04 Dec 2025

26 MINS

26:16

04 Dec 2025


#275

2.5 Admins 275: G-word

Google kept collecting sensor data even after bricking Nest thermostats, FreeBSD’s c... more

27 Nov 2025

25 MINS

25:51

27 Nov 2025


#274

2.5 Admins 274: Go Go Gadget Windows

Windows is becoming an “agentic OS”, some WD SMR drives are dying prematurely,... more

20 Nov 2025

27 MINS

27:15

20 Nov 2025


#273

2.5 Admins 273: Reliability Tracking

Allan tells us about the recent [OpenZFS Summit] (https://openzfs.org/wiki/OpenZFS_Develop... more

13 Nov 2025

25 MINS

25:58

13 Nov 2025


#272

2.5 Admins 272: NVMe Surprise

Why you should seriously consider buying refurbished hard drives, why drives might be last... more

06 Nov 2025

24 MINS

24:34

06 Nov 2025


#271

2.5 Admins 271: Dead Internet

Why you should keep your Baseboard Management Controller off the network, ZFS is hard to d... more

30 Oct 2025

27 MINS

27:54

30 Oct 2025


#270

2.5 Admins 270: Storage Shortage

It looks like the storage companies aren’t betting on the AI bubble lasting much lon... more

23 Oct 2025

27 MINS

27:46

23 Oct 2025


#269

2.5 Admins 269: End of 10?

Windows 10 is officially end of life but Microsoft extends free updates for Windows 10 in ... more

16 Oct 2025

25 MINS

25:27

16 Oct 2025


#268

2.5 Admins 268: The Salter Philosophy

A Red Hat breach leads to a leak of lots of sensitive customer data, Synology backs down o... more

09 Oct 2025

23 MINS

23:27

09 Oct 2025


#267

2.5 Admins 267: Hoarding Cache

The weird errors you see when your root partition is full, TikTok uses a lot of bandwidth ... more

02 Oct 2025

26 MINS

26:11

02 Oct 2025


#266

2.5 Admins 266: Jiggawatts of Hallucinations

Intel and Nvidia are teaming up for multiple reasons, Open AI are planning to build data c... more

25 Sep 2025

31 MINS

31:17

25 Sep 2025


#265

2.5 Admins 265: Storage Lies

Joe set up a FreeBSD box to serve as a replication target and it was surprisingly straight... more

18 Sep 2025

27 MINS

27:53

18 Sep 2025


#264

2.5 Admins 264: A Question of Trust

Matrix shows how painful enormous databases can be to restore, why the certificate authori... more

11 Sep 2025

30 MINS

30:27

11 Sep 2025


#263

2.5 Admins 263: Seagate RAID

McDonald’s IT systems seem to be riddled with 90s-style coding errors, we finally kn... more

04 Sep 2025

28 MINS

28:41

04 Sep 2025


#262

2.5 Admins 262: It’s About Control

Google is planning to assert even more control over which Android apps can be installed, t... more

28 Aug 2025

28 MINS

28:51

28 Aug 2025


#261

2.5 Admins 261: Worms and Baskets

Why you can’t rely on a single cloud provider, Jim discovers AI that spreads itself ... more

21 Aug 2025

24 MINS

24:01

21 Aug 2025