S4E9: "Great Walls of Fire"

Posted 2019-06-24 03:59
Modified 2019-06-24 02:05
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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.

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Author r00t^2
Categories Season Four

S4E8: "I Am Such a Git"

Posted 2019-06-10 03:59
Modified 2019-06-09 02:37
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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.)

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Author r00t^2
Categories Season Four

S4E7: "Zany Miscellany"

Posted 2019-05-27 03:59
Modified 2019-05-25 14:06
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We cover several “mini-topics”; Paden talks about his IBM Tech U experience, he talks about switching distros from CentOS to Arch Linux on his laptop, and we talk about firewalld (and get a LOT of facts wrong; see the Errata).

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Author r00t^2
Categories Season Four

S4E6: "Be a Rancher, Not a Vet"

Posted 2019-05-13 05:21
Modified 2019-05-13 05:35
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Paden couldn’t join us, so myself and Jthan talk about enterprise desktop fleet management.

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Author r00t^2
Categories Season Four

S4E5: "Join the Borg? Restic is Futile"

Posted 2019-04-29 03:59
Modified 2019-08-18 13:48
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Borg vs. Restic for performing backups.

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Author r00t^2
Categories Season Four

Sysadministrivia

Linux, Lagers, and Late Nights

S4E9: "Great Walls of Fire"

S4E8: "I Am Such a Git"

S4E7: "Zany Miscellany"

S4E6: "Be a Rancher, Not a Vet"

S4E5: "Join the Borg? Restic is Futile"