The merits of ECC RAM, why reproducible builds are a good idea, and where to buy used equipment.

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Webinar: Introducing OpenZFS 2.0

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Linus Torvalds rails at Intel for ‘killing’ the ECC industry

Why don’t PCs use error correcting RAM? “Because Intel,” says Linus

You don’t need reproducible builds

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We were asked about the best places to buy used equipment.

Linode

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Datadog

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A cruel but necessary phishing test, ancient standards in brand new legislation, using Windows when it makes sense, and commissioning and decommissioning servers.

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Webinar: Introducing OpenZFS 2.0

Klara: Routing and Firewalling VLANS with FreeBSD

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News

GoDaddy Employees Were Told They Were Getting a Holiday Bonus. It Was Actually a Phishing Test

Brexit trade deal advises governments to use Netscape Communicator and SHA-1. Why? It’s all in the DNA

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We were asked about Active Directory solutions, and the server commissioning and decommissioning process.

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Datadog

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TrueNAS from iXsystems

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Why Google services like Gmail went down recently, the potentially promising future for RISC-V, and using ZFS for home and root.

News

Google Mail outage

Google incident report

New RISC-V CPU claims record breaking performance per watt

Seagate working on RISC-V SoCs

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We were asked about using ZFS for root and home partitions.

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Lernard

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Potentially improving DNS privacy, the big new ZFS release, and the best way to automate Linux installations.

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Webinar – Best Practices For Optimizing ZFS – Part 1

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News

Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH in 1.1.1.1

OpenZFS 2.0 release unifies Linux, BSD and adds tons of new features

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We were asked about the best way to automate Linux installations.

TrueNAS from iXsystems

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Linode

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How Intel and AMD have fought it out over the years, Apple changes the industry with their M1 SoC, and we repeat the mantra that RAID is not a backup.

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News

A history of Intel vs. AMD desktop performance, with CPU charts galore

Hands-on with the Apple M1—a seriously fast x86 competitor

Intel’s Disruption is Now Complete

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A question about drive failures is answered with a basic lesson in backups.

We mentioned this article.

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Datadog

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Google proves that “unlimited” anything doesn’t exist, GitHub shenanigans, Apple’s new Arm computers, and which distro to start with as a sysadmin.

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Allan’s ZFS Webinar – Nov 18th, signup soon

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News

Arm Macs announced

Google Photos is the latest “Unlimited” plan to impose hard limits

GitHub’s source code was leaked on GitHub last night… sort of

Allan trolls Greg K-H

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We were asked whether someone starting out as a sysadmin should master Debian or CentOS.

Datadog

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TrueNAS from iXsystems

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We wade through Cloudfare’s marketing fluff, forced WordPress plugin updates, a bunch of your questions, and the shocking revelation that FreeBSD actually has graphics drivers.

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History of FreeBSD, Part 2

News

Introducing Cloudflare One

Introducing Cloudflare Browser Isolation beta

WordPress deploys forced security update for dangerous bug in popular plugin

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We answered a big batch of questions about managing bandwidth quotas, tape backups, preventing users from rebooting, and DKMS issues.

We mentioned Firehol, ntopng, and Bacula.

Datadog

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Lernard

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How not to store test results, AMD firmly on top of the desktop space, what moving to remote work means for corporate networks, and deduplication of disorganized data.

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Allan’s summary of the OpenZFS Devsummit 2020

All Things Open

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News

Why using Microsoft’s tool caused Covid-19 results to be lost

AMD’s new Zen 3 Ryzen desktop CPUs arrive November 5

Yesterday’s corporate network design isn’t working for working from home

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Joe asked for advice on deduplicating some old disorganized data.

Datadog

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TrueNAS from iXsystems

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Intel almost catching up to AMD with Tiger Lake, the .uk fiasco, and why you shouldn’t be using dd.

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OpenZFS Developer Summit

All Things Open 2020

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News

Hands-on with Intel’s i7-1185G7 Tiger Lake prototype laptop

Intel’s run at the GPU market begins with Tiger Lake onboard graphics

What the hell is going on with .uk?

.uk registry operator Nominet responds to renewed criticism – by silencing its critics

.uk overlord Nominet tells everyone not to worry about ‘distorted’ vote allocations in its board elections

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We were asked about block size while using dd. Jim mentioned his blog post about iostat.

Datadog

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Cyber insurance for ransomware, more confusing WD specs, the truth behind the return of the Gateway brand, and managing config files.

News

Ransomware accounted for 41% of all cyber insurance claims in H1 2020

Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM”

We found out who makes Walmart’s new Gateway laptops, and it’s bad news

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We were asked about managing config files when updating.

TrueNAS from iXsystems

This episode is sponsored by TrueNAS from iXsystems, the number one Open Storage OS. See how TrueNAS can support your next storage project, whether it’s just a few terabytes, all the way up to multiple petabytes.

Datadog

This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/25admins, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.

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