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The Life of Kenneth · 18 Jan 2026

Installing AlmaLinux Over the Network With No Hands

![PXE booting on my kitchen table](https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2026/01/almapxe.jpg) As part of a broader project, I’ve been working on setting up the infrastructure to be able to power on

The Life of Kenneth · 29 Dec 2024

Poking at the connectX-4 Firmware

We’re coming up on three years now that [John, Warthog9] and I have been running the MicroMirror project, and I decided that it was about time to start working on the next generation of the

The Life of Kenneth · 21 Oct 2024

Making Fastestmirror Less Awful

Fastestmirror is a configuration option for the yum and dnf package managers in the RPM ecosystem (i.e. Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, AlmaLinux, etc) that everyone loves to hate. The name of the option is so

The Life of Kenneth · 29 Sep 2024

Migration to Jekyll from Blogger

![screenshot](https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2024/09/newblog.png) I’ve been writing on this blog for something like 18 years now, which is just wild. When I originally fired up this blog as a

The Life of Kenneth · 9 May 2023

Building the Micro Mirror Free Software CDN

![picture](https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2023/05/codingflyboy.jpg) As should surprise no one, based on my past projects of [running my own autonomous

The Life of Kenneth · 5 May 2021

Unlocking Third Party Transceivers on Older Arista Switches

Like many switch vendors, Arista switches running EOS only accept Arista branded optics by default. They accept any brand of passive direct attach copper cables, but since third party optics tend to

The Life of Kenneth · 19 Nov 2020

Building an Anycast Secondary DNS Service

![V4 latency map](https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2020/11/anycast/V4_20201108.png) Regular readers will remember how one of my friends offered to hold my beer while I went and [started my own

The Life of Kenneth · 16 Apr 2020

Validating BGP Prefixes using RPKI on Arista Switches

I’ve written another blog post for the Arista EOS blog. This time, it’s on how to use the brand new feature in EOS where it now supports RPKI via RTR. I walk through a simple example of how to

The Life of Kenneth · 1 Apr 2020

A Simple Quality of Service Design Example

![Weighted Round Robin figure](https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2020/04/simpleqos/WRR.png) I’ve written another blog post for the Arista corporate blog! This time, it’s on [the basics of how to

The Life of Kenneth · 29 Mar 2020

Booting Linux Over HTTP

![Two FX160s](https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2020/03/httpboot/small-thinclient.jpg) A couple years ago, one of my friends gave me a big pile of little Dell FX160 thin clients, which are cute