app_store_button

google_play_button

Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Step into an infinite world of stories

Listen and read

Jupiter Broadcasting

TechSNAP

It's a storage showdown as Jim and Wes bust some performance myths about RAID and ZFS.
Plus our favorite features from Fedora 32, and why Wes loves DNF.

430: All Good Things

Jim and Wes take the latest release of the Caddy web server for a spin, investigate Intel's Comet Lake desktop CPUs, and explore the fight over 5G between the US Military and the FCC.

429: Curious About Caddy

We dive deep into the world of RAID, and discuss how to choose the right topology to optimize performance and resilience.
Plus Cloudflare steps up its campaign to secure BGP, and why you might want to trade in cron for systemd timers.

428: RAID Reality Check

Jim finally gets his hands on an AMD Ryzen 9 laptop, some great news about Wi-Fi 6e, and our take on FreeBSD on the desktop.
Plus Intel's surprisingly overclockable laptop CPU, why you shouldn't freak out about 5G, and the incredible creativity of the Demoscene.

427: Gigahertz Games

We take a look at Cloudflare's impressive Linux disk encryption speed-ups, and explore how zoned storage tools like dm-zoned and zonefs might help mitigate the downsides of Shingled Magnetic Recording. 
Plus we celebrate WireGuard's inclusion in the Linux 5.6 kernel, and fight some exFAT FUD.

426: Storage Stories

We take a look at AMD's upcoming line of Ryzen 4000 mobile CPUs, and share our first impressions of Ubuntu 20.04's approach to ZFS on root. 
Plus Let's Encrypt's certificate validation mix-up, Intel's questionable new power supply design, and more.

425: Ryzen Gets Real

Cloudflare recently embarked on an epic quest to choose a CPU for its next-generation server build, so we explore the importance of requests per watt, the benefits of full memory encryption, and why AMD won. 
Plus Mozilla's rollout of DNS over HTTPS has begun, a big milestone for Let's Encrypt, and more.

424: AMD Inside

We explore the potential of heat-assisted magnetic recording and get excited about a possibly persistent L2ARC. 
Plus Jim's journeys with Clear Linux, and why Ubuntu 18.04.4 is a maintenance release worth talking about.

423: Hopeful for HAMR

We take a look at a few exciting features coming to Linux kernel 5.6, including the first steps to multipath TCP. 
Plus the latest Intel speculative execution vulnerability, and Microsoft's troubled history with certificate renewal.

422: Multipath Musings

We explore the latest round of Windows vulnerabilities and Jim shares his journey adding OPNsense to his firewall family. 
Plus a look back at Apollo-era audio that's still relevant today with the surprising story of the Quindar tones.

421: Firewall Fun

We turn our eye to web server best practices, from the basics of CDNs to the importance of choosing the right multi-processing module.
Plus the right way to setup PHP, the trouble with benchmarking, and when to choose NGiNX.

404: Prefork Pitfalls

Listen and read

Other podcasts you might like ...