kekoa vincent

For work, one of the major projects we have been working on involves integrating a Wild West Domains(Godaddy) API reseller account to automatically register domain names in our application.  The process of figuring out the API is a monumental task due to the lack of clear current documentation, and a muddle of old documentation that can lead you down a difficult and messy path.

I won't be posting much of any code here, sorry, but will tell you of my experience, and leave the invitation open for those who may need assistance interpreting the API, or debugging impossibly cryptic certification errors.  Interested persons may contact me about purchasing the PHP interface class that I wrote, along with my own documentation.

I just bought a new 4GB USB thumb drive, and I want to put linux on it so I can walk up to about any computer and install or run linux on it for repair purposes or to quickly dissiminate Linux propaganda.

I haven't been able to find any substantial how-to's on 'how to' do this so this is my attempt to do it on my own with the limited knowledge in my brain on this topic.

So I've given up on Fedora 6 for the time being.  I thought I could leave it running for a month, but after I updated all the packages on the system, the X server was gone... Completely.  No way was I going to repair it, so I gave up.  Unacceptible.  I burned a copy of Ubuntu 6.06 and am installing it now.

Wow, the cd is actually a live cd, I put it in and it boots up a minimal gnome environment.  Sweet!  It even has firefox, and autodetected my soundcard, I was greeted with some nice startup music.  I don't know what to think about the brownness of ubuntu, but it looks pretty good so far... now I just need to click on the button that says 'install' on the desktop.

Ok, so a bit of a problem, I doubt it's fully ubuntu's fault, mainly because I am stubborn.  I like to use JFS for my filesystems, because I believe I get better performance and stability.  The problem is the mkfs.jfs included on the ubuntu live cd isn't recognizing the hard disk properly, so it's unable to format it and I can't go on.  Ext3 works fine, but I want JFS, so I booted up my knoppix disc and formatted the filesystem to JFS. I really don't mind the extra step at all, actually I feel more comfortable using fdisk and the format commands myself.

Anyways, now that's done, and I'm back to where I was. Just needed to re-enter what I did before and now it's installing.  It's great that you can play games while it installs.  The nicest installation(of the base OS) I've ever done.

So I had a breakthrough recently on getting my wireless to work on my laptop.  Ubuntu doesn't come with it setup by default, but I was happy to see the ndiswrapper package in the 'Synaptic Package Manager', so all I needed to do was click a check box and it installed it.  Then I just have to set it up much like I did with Gentoo, from the command line I assume.  There are probably graphical tools out there, but this doesn't bother me at all.