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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 week we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.

Website ↗ Last published 29 October 2026 316 posts collected by Sputnik

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“if you have to replace the certificate every 64 days or something, you're definitely going to want to automate that. You're not doing that by hand every 60 days or you're going to screw up frequently.” — Allan Jude, 2.5 Admins
Allan Jude · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“people's reaction of just disable IPv6 is exactly why IPv6 has not gotten very far. I had hoped that it was getting better when everybody's phone was kind of depending on it to avoid carrier grade NAT, but it seems like we only care about it on the phone and we've not applied any of those lessons to the rest of the internet.” — Allan Jude, 2.5 Admins
Allan Jude · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“For so long, my policy has been it is cheaper to just buy more hard drives than to figure out what it is safe to delete, but the math may have flipped on that one.” — Allan Jude, 2.5 Admins
Allan Jude · 17 Sep 2026 Listen →
“If there's one thing reading something like a decade's worth of Backblaze's failure reports has taught me, it's that Backblaze buys as much of whatever they can that's as cheap as possible.” — Jim Salter, 2.5 Admins
Jim Salter · 3 Sep 2026 Listen →
“…By comparison, modern Ubiquiti access points, while they do have a standalone mode, they are dumber than the absolute stupidest Linksys router from the year 2000 if they're running standalone mode without the controller.” — Jim Salter, 2.5 Admins
Jim Salter · 20 Aug 2026 Listen →

Hosts

2.5 Admins is hosted by Allan Jude , Jim Salter and Joe Ressington .

Recent Episodes

  1. 29 Oct 2026

    2.5 Admins 323: No /boot For You

  2. 22 Oct 2026

    2.5 Admins 322: Internet Defrigeration

  3. 15 Oct 2026

    2.5 Admins 321: Backup Strategy

  4. 8 Oct 2026

    2.5 Admins 320: Dining on Goose

  5. 1 Oct 2026

    2.5 Admins 319: Funding Open Source

  6. 24 Sep 2026

    2.5 Admins 318: End of Exchange

  7. 17 Sep 2026

    2.5 Admins 317: Need Less

  8. 10 Sep 2026

    2.5 Admins 316: BGP Clipboard Hijack

  9. 3 Sep 2026

    2.5 Admins 315: Hot Bus Adapter

  10. 27 Aug 2026

    2.5 Admins 314: 50 PBS TBS

    With Gordon Tetlow

  11. 20 Aug 2026

    2.5 Admins 313: Cooking with NVMe

  12. 13 Aug 2026

    2.5 Admins 312: Bus Factor

Guests

Alex Kretzschmar (3 episodes), Gary Williams (2 episodes), Gordon Tetlow , Dalton Durst .