Sysadministrivia

S3E1’s release will be delayed by several hours. (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/s3e1-delay)

In this episode, we talk about our personal, professional, and podcast plans for 2018. We also talk about some basic bird’s-eye-view performance tuning.

As a bonus, you get some Jthan story time, too. (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S3E0)

The Season 2 Shitshow! (Shitshows are our finale for each season in which we invite listeners to join in with us and we don’t really have a real topic.) As per tradition of our shitshows, this is unedited so it sounds a bit rough (sorry about that). We talk about ducks way too much during the second half.

Sorry for the delay! (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S2E22)

The Season 2 Shitshow! (Shitshows are our finale for each season in which we invite listeners to join in with us and we don’t really have a real topic.) As per tradition of our shitshows, this is unedited so it sounds a bit rough (sorry about that). We talk about ducks way too much during the second half.

Sorry for the delay! (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S2E22)

In this episode, we talk about installation preconfiguration (via e.g. Kickstart, etc.) vs. configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, etc.) for baremetal turnups. We also answer an email from a listener!

“May many portable gloryholes descend upon you and surround you and make you feel wildly uncomfortable.” – Jthan (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S2E21)

We talk about clever deployment options for SSH, both for auth and for hostkeys. We also yammer a bit about the embedded Minix system discovered in Intel chips and the concept of a city-run ISP. (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S2E20)

In which we talk about KRACK (and ROCA, the RSA flaw in some TPM chips), and how to perhaps move forward/past the “unpatchable/limited patching in prod” scenario. (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S2E19)

In this episode we have two guests involved in the InfoSec industry, Johnny Xmas, who is with The Faction and Uptake, and Daryl Kellison (who didn’t give us any contact info to release). (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S2E18)

We talk about Glances (which we mentioned in S2E16), Samba, and opensourcing company code. (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S2E17)

In this episode we discuss some LinkedIn open-source software, a TON of system metrics tools, and the huge Equifax fail. The birth of the “Amir” inside joke. (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S2E16)