Sysadministrivia

We talk about the (software) tools we tend to use in our everyday roles. (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S4E17)

We talk about diagramming systems/networks/etc. for documentation purposes. Jthan’s 15 clams is a really useful one on methods for remotely decrypting FDE. (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S4E16)

We talk about “soft skills” – are they REALLY necessary for Operations? (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S4E15)

In this episode, we go into our specific areas of focus (our “roles”), what we would be interested in pursuing given the chance, etc.

Paden is now known as “Patches”. (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S4E14)

We have Johnny Xmas on to talk about WAFs, why they suck, why they don’t work, and why Kasada does.

Yes, I choked on my vape. (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S4E13)

We dig into ways to deal with terrible consumer routers. (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S4E12)

Subtitle: “But it is an ICS”.

In this episode, we have Kate (from S3 shitshow) on to introduce us to ICS/SCADA systems.

We also have a “Jthan typing noise” at 1h02m41s. (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S4E11)

We talk about load balancing, and just how impossible it is to do right. (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S4E10)

In this episode, we have a weird spliced-in Jthan and we talk about some neat firewall tricks you can do to make firewalling a little easier. (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S4E9)

I did a big oopsie on this, so it’s a little…. unconventional. We talk about keeping configuration files in git (both /etc and your user’s dotfiles/dotdirs) and about designing “static systems” (live CDs, PXE/iPXE boot filesystems, etc.) (Full shownotes at https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S4E8)