What good system administrator podcasts are out there?

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Solution 1

RunAs Radio

Solution 2

I regularly listen too and enjoy

Solution 3

PaulDotCom Security Weekly is a weekly podcast hosted by a group of network penetration testers and SANS instructors that covers some of the tactics and tools that attackers use as well as news and information for how sysadmins can protect their systems.

Mind of Root is a weekly podcast that covers more of the general sysadmin topics.

Radio Free Security is a monthly podcast from WatchGuard (they make security appliances). They have a lot of good insight on security and protecting your network.

Solution 4

The Stack Overflow podcast :)

Solution 5

For you Windows folks out there:

IT Idiots

They don't do much system administration type podcasts anymore, but there is a fairly extensive archive with good Windows video podcasts.

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Zoredache

Real Name: Chris Francy I work as a Senior Network Analyst at Northwest Educational Service District #189 in the Technology Services department. The Technology Service department, in addition to supporting the staff at NWESD, provides network support services to 35 K-12 school districts in Northwest Washington region. In my free time, when I am not at work or answering questions, I play a lot of video games on the PC (Steam Profile).

Updated on September 17, 2022

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Zoredache almost 2 years
The similar question on Stack Overflow, What good technology podcasts are out there?, has lots of answers focused on software development.

What podcasts do you listen to for learning about the following?
- Information technology trends
- Network administration techniques
- Security issues and threats
- Other system/network administration issues.
Summary:
Shard about 15 years

Thats more of that which craft called programming isn't it :)
tomjedrz about 15 years

+1 for Security Now. Laporte is fine, but Gibson is a God!
lexu about 15 years

Are Sthe ecurity Bites still released? Your link seems to point at old releases?
Naveen about 15 years

They talk quite a bit about running the stackoverflow.com site. Server configurations, load, uptime, etc. RAID is one of the podcast bingo words... :)
Željko Filipin about 15 years

Please, the next time just post one podcast per answer. :)
Joel about 15 years

I listen to Buzz Out Loud, but I find much of their news to be consumerism gossip tech news, and less cutting edge IT news.
duffbeer703 about 15 years

Isn't Gibson the dope who claimed XP was going to crash the interweb?
pelasO over 14 years

This week in Tech isn't really very sysadmin-y
Aaron Tate over 14 years

witch. :) hmm15charshuh?