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Date Title & Description Contributors
2020-05-29

  430: All Good Things

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.
  Jupiter Broadcasting author
2020-05-15

  429: Curious About Caddy

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.
  Jupiter Broadcasting author
2020-05-01

  428: RAID Reality Check

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.
  Jupiter Broadcasting author
2020-04-17

  427: Gigahertz Games

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 ...
  Jupiter Broadcasting author
2020-04-03

  426: Storage Stories

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 L...
  Jupiter Broadcasting author
2020-03-20

  425: Ryzen Gets Real

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.
  Jupiter Broadcasting author
2020-03-06

  424: AMD Inside

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 h...
  Jupiter Broadcasting author
2020-02-21

  423: Hopeful for HAMR

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.
  Jupiter Broadcasting author
2020-02-07

  422: Multipath Musings

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.
  Jupiter Broadcasting author
2020-01-24

  421: Firewall Fun

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.
  Jupiter Broadcasting author