SysAdmin Weekly

Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron

Welcome to the SysAdmin Weekly Podcast, your go-to source for IT-related content tailored to busy system administrators in the trenches. Hosted by longtime sysadmins and Microsoft MVPs Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron, this show dives deep into the challenges and solutions that matter most to sysadmins on any given day. From technical know-how to real-world insights, SysAdmin Weekly is dedicated to those tireless professionals who keep our digital world running. Tune in for relevant topics, expert advice, and engaging discussions to make your busy schedule a little bit easier.

  1. 4 dni temu

    058 - What Tools Do SysAdmins Actually Use Every Day?

    The tools that stay in the kit for a decade are the ones that still work when the network, the domain, or the boot volume is the thing that broke. Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron open their real toolboxes and argue about what earns permanent residency. nmap and Wireshark for what is actually on the wire, Sysinternals for what a box is really doing, GParted and SystemRescue for the volume that will not mount, and the chkdsk, DISM, then SFC sequence Eric can run in his sleep. Andy's list skews hard toward triage because MSP work meant walking into a stranger's burning network every week. Remote access is missing on purpose; RDP, SSH, and overlay networks are getting their own episode. Chapters: 00:00:00 - Cold Open: The Tools That Save Your Bacon 00:01:13 - Welcome and Show Plugs 00:03:11 - News React: Anthropic's Enterprise Frontier Safeguards 00:07:01 - News React: The US Goes Openly Offensive in Cyber 00:12:57 - Nerd Hour: CC Top and a Pomodoro Timer That Remembers 00:15:53 - What Earns a Permanent Spot in the Toolbox 00:17:32 - Why MSP Years Produce a Triage Kit 00:20:13 - nmap, and the Licensed Cisco Utility Story 00:22:31 - Sysinternals and Process Monitor 00:23:16 - Wireshark Past the Basics 00:24:09 - netstat and nslookup Are Not Wizardry 00:25:12 - dig, and Why ping Is Not a DNS Tool 00:27:22 - Test-NetConnection Instead of ping 00:27:59 - Why Anyone Blocks ICMP in the First Place 00:30:11 - MXToolbox, PingPlotter, and the Neighbor's Air Conditioner 00:33:18 - GParted, SystemRescue, and the Live CD Shelf 00:35:58 - chkdsk, DISM, then SFC, in That Order 00:38:06 - DBAN and Decommissioning Disks 00:40:51 - The Multi-Pass Wipe Myth 00:43:25 - Greenshot and Capture Last Region 00:46:07 - Spectacle, Client Hypervisors, Docker and Podman 00:47:33 - Get-Help and man: Nobody Remembers Syntax 00:48:28 - OpenSSL, Qualys SSL Labs, and testssl.sh 00:50:13 - WSL as the Whole Toolbox 00:51:37 - The Everyday List: Vim, Bitwarden, Git, Package Managers 00:54:20 - Remote Access Gets Its Own Episode 00:55:30 - The Platform Tax After Leaving Windows 00:58:18 - Edge on WSL on Windows, for Certificate Chains 01:01:02 - Do This Monday 01:03:31 - Eric's Advice: Go Look for the Tool 01:04:37 - Wrap Up and Outro Resources / Show Notes: - Anthropic, Developing Enterprise Frontier Safeguards: https://www.anthropic.com/news/enterprise-frontier-safeguards - Nmap: https://nmap.org/ - Wireshark: https://www.wireshark.org/ - Microsoft Sysinternals, and Sysinternals Live: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ - MXToolbox, external DNS and blacklist checks: https://mxtoolbox.com/ - PingPlotter, latency and packet loss per hop: https://www.pingplotter.com/ - GParted, and the live image: https://gparted.org/ - SystemRescue: https://www.system-rescue.org/ - DBAN, still there, spinning disk era, not for SSDs: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/ - Greenshot, Windows only: https://getgreenshot.org/ - Qualys SSL Labs, tick the box to stay off the public board: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ - testssl.sh, for internal sites: https://testssl.sh/ - DevToys, clipboard certificate parser: https://devtoys.app/ - SysAdmin Weekly, all show links: https://www.sysadminweekly.com - SysAdmin Weekly Newsletter: https://newsletter.sysadminweekly.com - AndyOnTech: https://www.andyontech.com - Project Runspace: https://www.projectrunspace.org - GitHub Discussions, what is in your toolbox: https://github.com/ProjectRunspace/sysadmin-weekly/discussions

  2. 28 sie

    057 - Is Your Air Gap Actually an Air Gap? Port 22 Says No

    Somewhere inside that isolated network, port 22 is open, and it has been open since the outage six months ago that nobody wrote up. Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron take apart a term the industry uses constantly and almost never earns. They walk the management plane hole by hole: SSH and RDP so somebody can patch the thing, SMB for the files that have to move, DNS and NTP because nothing works without them, and the iDRAC, iLO, and IPMI boards that get parked on the management VLAN and then never patched at all. The argument they land on is not that a real air gap is impossible, it is that calling something an air gap ends the conversation, and a promise nobody re-verifies is worse than a risk everybody can see. Chapters: 00:00:00 - Cold Open: Your Air Gap Probably Is Not an Air Gap 00:01:12 - Welcome and Show Plugs 00:04:19 - News React: An AirTag, a Rare Book, and an Amazon Scanning Facility 00:10:10 - News React: Bill Gates Changes His Mind on AI and Jobs 00:13:03 - What the Entry Level Job Market Looks Like Right Now 00:15:05 - When Nobody Is Left Who Knows How to Program It 00:19:25 - Nerd Hour: Claude Code, Agents, and Building CC Top 00:23:54 - Nerd Hour: Moving Project Runspace to Hugo, JavaScript Free 00:28:22 - What an Air Gap Actually Means 00:31:22 - Logical, Network, Virtual: How the Word Got Laundered 00:32:36 - Every Hole You Poke Just to Manage the Thing 00:34:18 - The One Nobody Segments: iDRAC, iLO, and IPMI 00:36:26 - A Brief and Deserved Detour About Printers 00:37:23 - NTP, DNS, License Activation, and Telemetry 00:40:34 - Why Leaving Hyper-V Out of the Domain Is Not Security 00:43:16 - VLANs, Switch Fabric, and Breakout Attacks 00:44:40 - Assume Breach: Zero Trust, JIT, and JEA 00:50:36 - Sneaker Net and Poisoned USB Drives 00:52:20 - Stuxnet and the Gap That Was Real 00:54:59 - How Would You Even Safely Clean a USB Drive? 00:56:58 - Say What You Have, Then Defend It 00:57:29 - The Real Danger Is the False Sense of Security 01:00:23 - The Windows Firewall Lesson 01:03:11 - What a Genuine Air Gap Actually Costs 01:04:59 - Wrap Up and Outro Resources / Show Notes: - Symantec Security Response, W32.Stuxnet Dossier, the canonical technical analysis: https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/security-response-w32-stuxnet-dossier-11-en - Ralph Langner, To Kill a Centrifuge, on why post-Stuxnet air gap strategies miss the point: https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/jf/Langner.pdf - The 2008 USB breach of US military networks, Agent.btz and Operation Buckshot Yankee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_malware_infection_of_the_United_States_Department_of_Defense - Microsoft Security Advisory 967940, the update that killed USB AutoRun: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securityadvisories/2009/967940 - NIST SP 800-82 Rev. 3, Guide to Operational Technology Security, for naming what you actually have: https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/82/r3/final - 404 Media, tracking a shipment of rare books to an Amazon AI training facility: https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/ - Semafor, Bill Gates has changed his mind about AI and jobs: https://www.semafor.com/article/08/25/2026/this-is-crazy-this-is-insane-bill-gates-has-changed-his-mind-about-ai-and-jobs Gates Notes, the essay itself: The turbulent AI era is here: https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make - SysAdmin Weekly, all show links: https://www.sysadminweekly.com - SysAdmin Weekly Newsletter: https://newsletter.sysadminweekly.com - AndyOnTech: https://www.andyontech.com - Project Runspace: https://www.projectrunspace.org - GitHub Discussions, tell us about your air gap and why you have one: https://github.com/ProjectRunspace/sysadmin-weekly/discussions

  3. 22 sie

    056 - How People Actually Get Into SysAdmin Work

    Two careers, two completely different entry points, and the exact same first catastrophe: data gone, no idea if it was coming back. Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron trade full origin stories, from the 486 and the VIC-20 through the first paid tech jobs neither of them was qualified for. They get specific about the failures that rewired how they work, the mentor advice that still holds up decades later, the advice that aged badly, and the question underneath all of it: the on-ramp that produced both of them was cheap hardware, full access, and time to break things, and most of that is gone. Whether that actually matters for anyone starting in 2026 is the argument they finish on. Chapters: 00:00:00 - Cold Open: How We Actually Got Into IT 00:01:01 - Welcome, Show Plugs, and Why There Was a Gap 00:05:03 - News React: Meta Goes Open Source Again With Muse Glimmer 00:07:55 - News React: Lithium Battery Farms, Data Centers, and Zoning Boards 00:16:39 - Nerd Hour: A Black Hat Demo on Local LLMs and M365 Spear Phishing 00:19:34 - Nerd Hour: Fish Tape, a Whole House Vacuum, and a 160 Degree Attic 00:24:51 - The Stuff We Broke Before Anyone Paid Us 00:26:31 - Andy: The 486, the Matrix Boot Screen, and Getting Told to Change It Back 00:30:41 - Eric: The VIC-20, a Xerox 286, and Overclocking With a Box Fan 00:37:53 - Andy's First IT Job: A K-12 Summer Gig and 30 Cables a Foot Short 00:44:05 - Eric's First IT Job: Freight Dock to Phone Support 00:49:14 - Would Either of These Paths Still Get You Hired Today? 00:56:02 - Andy Nukes the Application Share and Prays at a Tape Drive 01:00:11 - Eric's Version: Dad, I Deleted All Your Files 01:02:46 - Why Almost Every SysAdmin's First Disaster Involves Data 01:04:21 - Advice That Held Up: The Key to IT Is Laziness 01:10:06 - Being Decent Beats Being Smart, and Learning to Say I Don't Know 01:15:01 - Advice That Aged Badly: Always, Never, and Best Practice 01:17:31 - Nobody Ever Got Fired for Buying IBM 01:23:02 - Does This On-Ramp Still Exist in 2026? 01:26:07 - You Do Not Need Commercial Gear to Learn This 01:27:56 - Wrap Up and Outro Resources / Show Notes: - VentureBeat - Meta returns to open source with Muse Glimmer: https://venturebeat.com/technology/meta-returns-to-open-source-with-muse-glimmer-an-apache-2-0-licensed-30b-parameter-ai-model-optimized-for-agents-available-now - MultiState - Federal AI data center policy meets resistance from state lawmakers: https://www.multistate.us/insider/2026/4/14/federal-ai-data-center-policy-meets-resistance-from-state-lawmakers - Black Hat official YouTube, where the USA 2026 Briefings recordings post: https://www.youtube.com/@BlackHatOfficialYT - SysAdmin Weekly, all show links: https://www.sysadminweekly.com - SysAdmin Weekly Newsletter: https://newsletter.sysadminweekly.com - AndyOnTech: https://www.andyontech.com - Project Runspace: https://www.projectrunspace.org - GitHub Discussions, tell us your first broke something moment: https://github.com/ProjectRunspace/sysadmin-weekly/discussions

  4. 14 sie

    055 - How Do You Run IT With No Budget?

    "No budget" is almost never no budget. It is no budget yet, and the thing that closes the gap is your ability to put a real dollar figure on the risk you are carrying. Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron have both run IT for organizations where getting the credit card out meant you had done something wrong. They walk through what that actually looks like: a PC DOS 4 machine still passing parts in a quality lab, an end of life Cisco ASA swapped for an open source firewall on scavenged workstations, NetGear ReadyNAS units kept on a shelf for SAN emergencies, and the iSCSI arguments that never die. Then the harder part: where the first dollar goes when budget finally shows up, and how to translate aging gear into risk language that a business owner will actually fund. Chapters: 00:00:00 - Cold Open: Keeping the Lights On With No Budget 00:01:00 - Welcome and Show Plugs 00:03:32 - News React: 25 Companies Sign On for Open Weight Models 00:07:51 - News React: OpenAI, Profitability, and the Missing CFO 00:12:56 - Nerd Hour: A Baldur's Gate Randomizer on GitHub Pages 00:16:02 - Nerd Hour: Unicode, MiniForge, and Why the Human Said No 00:20:51 - Community Comments: Cable Pulls and Fat WIM Files 00:24:34 - The Reality of the Zero Budget Shop 00:29:56 - End of Life Cisco ASA to an Open Source Firewall 00:34:04 - You Do Not Have to Buy Cisco 00:40:00 - Where Open Source Wins: Monitoring, Logging, Nmap 00:43:35 - Budget Storage: NAS Stopgaps and the iSCSI Argument 00:51:31 - Spending the First Dollar on Maximum Risk Reduction 00:52:44 - Backups: The One Place Not to Go Free 00:57:02 - No Budget Usually Means No Budget Yet 01:01:40 - Document the Risk, Get the Decision in Writing 01:03:40 - Wrap Up and Outro Resources / Show Notes: - Microsoft - Open Weights and American AI Leadership, the letter itself: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/topics/open-weight/ - TechCrunch - Industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/as-us-weighs-response-to-chinese-ai-industry-urges-against-broad-open-weight-restrictions/ - Fortune - OpenAI CFO reportedly at odds with Altman over spending: https://fortune.com/2026/04/28/openai-cfo-sam-altman-missed-revenue-target/ - Andy's Infinity Engine party randomizer, the Nerd Hour web app: https://asyrewicze.github.io/infinity-engine-randomizers/ - PomoCLI, Andy's terminal Pomodoro timer: https://github.com/asyrewicze/pomocli - Miniforge, the package manager Andy declined to add as a dependency: https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge - OPNsense, open source firewall: https://opnsense.org/ - pfSense, open source firewall: https://www.pfsense.org/ - Nagios, open source monitoring: https://www.nagios.org/ - Nmap, free network scanner: https://nmap.org/ - Restic, fast secure backup program: https://restic.net/ - SysAdmin Weekly, all show links: https://www.sysadminweekly.com - SysAdmin Weekly Newsletter: https://newsletter.sysadminweekly.com - AndyOnTech: https://www.andyontech.com - Project Runspace: https://www.projectrunspace.org - GitHub Discussions, share your no budget stories: https://github.com/ProjectRunspace/sysadmin-weekly/discussions Sources and clarifications (News React): - The open weights letter had 25 signatories on July 24, 2026. OpenAI and Google were absent that day and signed by July 26; the list has since passed 270. Anthropic has not signed. - Eric flagged the Sam Altman "no path to profitability" clip as possibly a deep fake, and we could not verify that specific video. The underlying reporting on OpenAI's CFO and spending tension is real; see the Fortune link above.

  5. 24 lip

    054 - Windows Admin Center in 2026: Good Tool, Broken On-Ramp?

    Windows Admin Center is a genuinely useful tool wrapped in an on-ramp so rough it took Andy four hours, a from-scratch certificate authority, and a pile of misleading error messages just to reach the login screen. Andy rebuilt his lab on an all-Core Windows Server 2025 fleet, set out to manage it from a browser the way Microsoft keeps telling us to, and hit a certificate wall that most SysAdmins would never fight through. He and Eric Siron walk the full gauntlet: the 60-day self-signed cert trap, an ERROR_DS_RANGE_CONSTRAINT that pointed the wrong way, a web server template that blocks computer requests, a silent blank SAN that kills the HTTPS binding, and the bigger question of whether a web tool is even the right way to manage Windows. Along the way: a News React on open-source AI, China, and a possible federal clampdown, plus the domain-join debate that never dies. Chapters: 00:00:00 - Cold Open: Four Hours to Install a Free Tool 00:01:15 - Welcome and Show Plugs 00:03:52 - News React: Apple, the EU, and the Walled Garden 00:08:55 - News React: Open-Source AI, China, and a Possible Federal Clampdown 00:16:00 - Nerd Hour: Ripping Out KVM, Putting Hyper-V Back 00:18:55 - Setting the Scene: An All-Core Lab and the Certificate Wall 00:30:08 - The Four-Hour Gauntlet: A Sequence of Failures 00:44:00 - What WAC Gets Right, and Where It Falls Down 00:59:24 - Azure Arc and the Real Agenda 01:07:45 - Does WAC Move the Needle? The Verdict Resources / Show Notes: - Microsoft - Windows Admin Center overview: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/windows-admin-center/overview - Hornetsecurity (Eric Siron) - Public Key Infrastructure explained, including why to stop using self-signed certificates: https://www.hornetsecurity.com/en/blog/public-key-infrastructure/ Sources and clarifications (News React / AI segment): We referenced several press claims from memory during the AI segment. The claims hold up, but a few were under-attributed on air, so here is the precise record. - Moonshot AI - Kimi K3, the open-weight model released the week before we recorded that benchmarks near frontier US models. The whole news cycle is downstream of it: https://venturebeat.com/technology/chinas-moonshot-ai-releases-kimi-k3-the-largest-open-source-model-ever-rivaling-top-u-s-systems - Dean Ball, OpenAI's Head of Strategic Futures and a former senior AI adviser in the Trump administration, is the source of the "AI communism" line, in a post on X. On air Andy first said "CEO of Claude" and "CEO of Anthropic," then corrected to "someone from OpenAI." The correct attribution is Ball at OpenAI, NOT Anthropic. Naming note: Claude is the model, Anthropic is the company: https://x.com/deanwball/status/2078133895766114412 - Dean Ball - follow-up clarifying he was predicting that outcome, not advocating for it: https://x.com/deanwball/status/2078619513575137330 - Axios (July 20, 2026) - the federal-action angle. Frame it as reportedly under consideration; no formal policy has been proposed. Mechanisms discussed include Commerce Entity List additions, security advisories, and federal procurement rules: https://www.axios.com/2026/07/20/ai-us-china-open-source-kimi - David Sacks, former White House AI adviser, publicly argued that closed labs want the government to eliminate their open-source competition, in a post on X: https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2078826291638522127 - Dario Amodei has called open-source AI a dangerous path; the source quotes are collected in this r/Anthropic thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1ui759l/amodei_says_open_source_is_dangerous/

  6. 17 lip

    053 - How to Survive as a Solo SysAdmin: Where to Start When You're the Only One

    When you are the only person standing between a working business and total collapse, the job stops being about doing everything and starts being about deciding what not to do this week. Andy and Eric Siron tackle a listener-requested topic: you just became the solo SysAdmin, whether by hire, downsizing, or promotion, and now you own the firewall, the servers, the backups, and the printer nobody wants to replace. This one is heavy on the career and survival skills that keep a team of one sane: triage before projects, documentation as an insurance policy, buying time back through automation and managed services, and speaking business value instead of acronyms to leadership. Plus a News React on Windows Server hot patching and 1Password for Claude, and a Nerd Hour on Debian 13.6 Secure Boot certs and SAML auth for Nagios. Chapters: 00:00:00 - You're the Only SysAdmin. Now What? 00:01:02 - Welcome and Show Plugs 00:05:13 - News React: Windows Server Hot Patching via Azure Arc 00:11:00 - News React: 1Password for Claude and AI Guardrails 00:13:50 - Nerd Hour: Debian 13.6 and Secure Boot Certificate Updates 00:16:33 - Nerd Hour: SAML Auth for Nagios via ADFS 00:23:20 - Main Topic: The Case of the Solo SysAdmin 00:28:23 - Triage Before Projects 00:30:57 - Note-Taking Systems: ARC, Bullet Journal, Rocketbook 00:46:40 - Documentation Is Survival and the Hit-By-A-Bus List 00:50:25 - Greenshot and Fast Screenshot Documentation 00:54:14 - Buying Time Back: Automation 00:58:16 - Buying Time Back: Managed Services 01:03:44 - Communicating Business Value to Leadership 01:09:09 - Managing and Documenting Risk 01:10:17 - Wrap-Up Resources / Show Notes: - MacRumors - 1Password for Claude lets AI log in without seeing your passwords: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/16/1password-claude-integration/ - Microsoft Learn - Enable Hotpatch for Azure Arc-enabled servers (now free for Windows Server 2025): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/enable-hotpatch-azure-arc-enabled-servers - Debian - 13.6 release notes and Secure Boot CA guidance: https://www.debian.org/News/2026/20260711 - Greenshot, free open-source screenshot tool: https://getgreenshot.org/ - Rocketbook, reusable notebook: https://getrocketbook.com/ - Bullet Journal method: https://bulletjournal.com/ - SysAdmin Weekly, all show links: https://www.sysadminweekly.com - SysAdmin Weekly Newsletter: https://newsletter.sysadminweekly.com - SysAdmin Weekly GitHub Discussions: https://github.com/ProjectRunspace/sysadmin-weekly/discussions - Andy on Tech: https://www.andyontech.com - Project Runspace: https://www.projectrunspace.org

  7. 10 lip

    052 - Why is Homelab Hardware So Expensive in 2026 (and When Will It Get Cheaper)?

    Somewhere between a $305 Raspberry Pi board and a used NVMe listing on eBay, the homelab hobby quietly stopped making financial sense. Andy and co-host Eric Siron dig into why memory, NAND, and storage prices went vertical in 2026, who is actually eating the supply, and what practitioners should do about it. They cover the AI buildout swallowing the manufacturing capacity, why prices probably never return to pre-shortage levels, and the return of a skill the industry let atrophy: right-sizing hardware to the workload instead of throwing spec at it. ## Chapters: 00:00:00 - The Hardware Market Is Fire and Brimstone 00:01:18 - Welcome and Intros 00:04:33 - News React: The First Fully AI-Run Ransomware (JadePuffer) 00:08:16 - News React: AI Job-Blame and the Unix Lawsuit That Won't Die 00:13:32 - Nerd Hour: Thunderbird Finally Speaks Exchange Online 00:18:47 - Nerd Hour: Hugo, AI, and the 80% Problem 00:23:13 - Show Plugs 00:24:09 - Why Homelab Hardware Broke Me: The eBay Moment 00:41:44 - Why This Is Happening: AI Is Eating the Supply Chain 00:46:43 - Local Models and the Willingness-to-Pay Problem 00:52:41 - The New Normal: Prices Aren't Coming Back 00:59:05 - Right-Size the Hardware to the Problem 01:06:02 - Could China Break the Bottleneck? 01:09:29 - One More Casualty, and Wrap-Up ## Resources / Show Notes - BleepingComputer, JadePuffer AI-run ransomware: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/jadepuffer-ransomware-used-ai-agent-to-automate-entire-attack/ - Thunderbird Blog, native Microsoft Exchange (EWS) support in 145: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thunderbird-adds-native-microsoft-exchange-email-support/ - Raspberry Pi Foundation, memory-driven price rises: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/more-memory-driven-price-rises/ - GamersNexus, SSDs WTF (NAND makers sold out for 2026): https://gamersnexus.net/features/ssds-wtf - Gartner, surging memory costs (125% DRAM / 234% NAND surge): https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-02-26-gartner-says-surging-memory-costs-will-reduce-global-pc-and-smartphone-shipments-in-2026 - TechPowerUp, Samsung and SK Hynix $870B capacity plan and fab timelines: https://www.techpowerup.com/350478/samsung-and-sk-hynix-to-expand-semiconductor-capacity-with-usd-870-billion-plan - BBC, Samsung's memory-driven profit surge: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1kyy8yrpxdo - IDC, why the memory market stays tight and makers aren't rushing capacity: https://www.idc.com/resource-center/blog/why-the-memory-market-is-still-tight-what-comes-next/ - Tom's Hardware, SK Group chairman says the shortage runs until 2030: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/sk-group-chairman-says-memory-chip-shortage-will-last-until-2030 - SemiAnalysis, China's CXMT challenging DRAM incumbents: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/chinas-cxmt-is-set-to-challenge-dram - Tom's Hardware, China's YMTC and homegrown NAND tooling: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/chinas-ymtc-moves-to-break-free-of-u-s-sanctions-by-building-production-line-with-homegrown-tools-aims-to-capture-15-percent-of-nand-market-by-late-2026 - TrendForce, China's GPU makers scaling as enterprise accelerators: https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/10/07/news-chinas-gpu-trio-rise-as-nvidia-retreats-decoding-moore-threads-metax-and-cambricon/ - CSIS, China and global cyber supply chain risk: https://www.csis.org/blogs/strategic-technologies-blog/chinas-weaponization-global-cyber-supply-chains - AndyOnTech, Andy's hub for all his output: https://www.andyontech.com - Project Runspace, the organization behind the show: https://www.projectrunspace.org - SysAdmin Weekly GitHub Discussions, share your hardware battle stories: https://github.com/ProjectRunspace/sysadmin-weekly/discussions

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    051 - What's Actually in Our Homelabs (and Why)

    The hardest part of running a home lab in 2026 is not building it up; it is being honest about what earns its place. Andy is joined by returning guest and member of the SysAdmin Weekly community, Clay Tamam, a working SysAdmin over in the Netherlands, for a real tour of what is actually sitting in their labs: the hardware, the hypervisors, the services they use every day, and the reasoning behind each choice. Andy explains why he tore a four-node Kubernetes cluster down to five VMs on a single Debian box, Clay walks through building a rack from scratch on a practical budget, and both of them dig into what current memory and hardware prices are doing to the hobby. It closes with the Graveyard: the gear and services that got powered off, and why pruning is an important part of the discipline. ## Chapters 00:00:00 - Welcome and a Returning Guest: Clay from the Netherlands 00:07:20 - News React: A US Firm's Bid for the Dutch DigiD Infrastructure 00:15:21 - News React: An AI-Assisted Hack Hits US Festival Ticketing 00:18:11 - Nerd Hour: Scoping AI Agents and Building a Lab From Scratch 00:24:29 - Main Topic: What Is Actually in Our Home Labs 00:25:15 - The Hardware: Andy's Pared-Down Single-Box Lab 00:31:25 - The Hardware: Clay's From-Scratch Rack Build 00:45:52 - The Foundation: KVM vs. Proxmox 00:56:33 - The Services That Earn Their Keep 01:02:37 - Self-Hosting, the Plex Price Hike, and Leaving Discord 01:13:57 - Learning Goals and the Graveyard 01:24:19 - Local Inference and the Urge to Panic-Buy 01:25:49 - Wrap-Up ## Resources / Show Notes - Wired - Researcher used Claude to break Front Gate Tickets: https://www.wired.com/story/claude-helped-a-hacker-find-a-way-to-issue-tickets-to-almost-every-us-music-festival/ - NL Times - Netherlands blocks the US takeover of DigiD operator Solvinity: https://nltimes.nl/2026/05/26/netherlands-blocks-us-takeover-digid-operator-solvinity-security-concerns - Security Now with Steve Gibson: https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm - Proxmox Virtual Environment and Backup Server: https://www.proxmox.com - Forgejo, the self-hosted Git forge (Gitea fork): https://forgejo.org - Tailscale, the overlay mesh VPN: https://tailscale.com - Foundry Virtual Tabletop: https://foundryvtt.com - Plex - New Lifetime Plex Pass pricing: https://www.plex.tv/blog/new-lifetime-plex-pass-pricing/ - Jellyfin, the free software media system: https://jellyfin.org - Vaultwarden, a self-hosted Bitwarden-compatible server: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden - Framework Desktop: https://frame.work/desktop - Connect with Clay on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clay-tamam-00b6441b3/ - AndyOnTech: https://www.andyontech.com

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O programie

Welcome to the SysAdmin Weekly Podcast, your go-to source for IT-related content tailored to busy system administrators in the trenches. Hosted by longtime sysadmins and Microsoft MVPs Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron, this show dives deep into the challenges and solutions that matter most to sysadmins on any given day. From technical know-how to real-world insights, SysAdmin Weekly is dedicated to those tireless professionals who keep our digital world running. Tune in for relevant topics, expert advice, and engaging discussions to make your busy schedule a little bit easier.

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  • Twórca
    Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron
  • Lata aktywności
    2025 - 2026
  • Odcinki
    59
  • Klasyfikacja
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