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.

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Unix: On the path to BSD

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Arm’s $66bn sale to Nvidia collapses

Intel’s strategy for outflanking Arm takes shape with bet on RISC-V

Radio station snafu in Seattle bricks some Mazda infotainment systems

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We were asked about solving a policy problem with a technical solution.

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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.

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Modern inetd on FreeBSD

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Joe Rogan Podcast is staying on Spotify says boss

Students who grew up with search engines might change STEM education forever

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We were asked about our update practices.

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The pain of updating Windows, FreeBSD vs Linux, and getting started with ZFS.

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FreeBSD Periodic Scripts

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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”

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We were asked about getting started with ZFS.

What Makes a Good Time to Use OpenZFS Slog and When Should You Avoid It

Choosing the right ZFS pool layout

OpenZFS: All about the cache vdev or L2ARC

ZFS 101—Understanding ZFS storage and performance

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love RAIDZ

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Allan has a recent war story for us, Microsoft blocked email from Linode, maximizing performance in a large capacity storage server, and more.

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Cluster Provisioning with Nomad and Pot

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Register article about Microsoft blocking email from Linode

Allan’s recent war story

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We were asked about maximizing performance in a large capacity storage server.

ZFS RAIDZ stripe width, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love RAIDZ

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A potential new European recursive DNS, why VPNs aren’t the silver bullet some people think they are, and how we set up new systems from scratch.

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The Birth of Unix

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EU wants to build its own DNS infrastructure with built-in filtering capabilities

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We were asked about how we set up machines from scratch.

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A novel approach to an old scam, your feedback about web servers and ransomware, and maintaining old databases.

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Packet Scheduling with Dummynet and FreeBSD

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Pay to park scam

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Jim’s review of the Caddy web server

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We were asked about optimising and maintaining an old database.

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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.

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BSDCan 2022: June 1-4th. CFP Closes Jan 19th

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News/discussion

Microsoft releases emergency fix for Exchange year 2022 bug

Gloomy sysadmin take on running your own email infrastructure

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We were asked about using Syncoid for backups.

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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.

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OpenZFS: Native Encryption

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Kronos hack will likely affect how employers issue paychecks and track hours

How We Saved Millions in SSD Costs by Upgrading Our Filesystem

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SpinRite

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We were asked about moving a QNAP NAS out of an office.

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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.

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Panel: FreeBSD Arm64 Flexibility with Ampere

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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.

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Using FreeBSD’s pkg audit to investigate known security issues

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Log4Shell: RCE 0-day exploit found in log4j 2, a popular Java logging package

The Internet’s biggest players are all affected by critical Log4Shell 0-day

Canada Revenue Agency and other government departments take some services offline due to security vulnerability

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

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We were asked about web servers for static sites, VLANS and interfaces, and certifications.

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