Sysadministrivia

In this episode, we catch up on personal projects. (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S5E14)

We talk about the issues present in trying to keep security, privacy, and integrity for data-at-rest on hardware that you don’t own. (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S5E13)

We talk about really bad things developers use and why you oughtn’t use them. (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S5E12)

We talk about QoS (Quality of Service)/rate-limiting and optimizing your network traffic before it hits The Tubes™. (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S5E11)

We talk about things we didn’t know we needed in our industry.

I could just use any given phrase Jthan opens with and it has enough entropy to be a good passphrase. (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S5E10)

We have a guest on to talk about chaos engineering. Fighting “Schrödinger’s failover”! (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S5E9)

We talk about vulnerability scanners/virus scanners that run on, and for, Linux. (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S5E8)

In this episode, we talk a LOT about IPv6 and, primarily, Hurricane Electric’s tunnelbroker service. We go off the rails/off-topic a LOT in this one, though. I think the ‘rona lockdowns are giving us all cabin fever. (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S5E7)

We talk about WebMD- I mean PacketFence, a captive portal/802.1X/RADIUS/etc. turnkey solution. (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S5E6)

In this episode we talk about complaints a user has about their IT department.

We also talk about desk/office equipment and the Raspberry Pi 4B far too much (despite not being sponsored for either). (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S5E5)