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A few minutes ago at work I was asked to copy a CD because part of the reflective backing was flaking off from the original.  After a close examination I could see that the written portion of the media was uneffected so there wouldn’t be a problem copying it.  Roxio CD Creator was just a few clicks away…  Unfortunately my Vista machine just didn’t want to see the DVDRW… 

I wasn’t under a time crunch, but I don’t like to keep people waiting.  The solution was quite simple, turn to the linux development machine (its the one I’ve been doing the oggEngine development on).  After booting up and logging in, I simply typed “CD” into the search field under the menu (on OpenSuSE) and was greated with k3b as a choice for DVD & CD Buring…  It loaded quickly and allowed me to copy the CD without any trouble. 

And they say linux is harder to use…   Have you tried it lately?  Ubuntu and OpenSuSE have come a long way.  I’m sure Fedora has too but I don’t have any systems with it installed.

Recently a conversation I had with my girlfriend made me rethink how this website is divided.  One of the things I have been doing in recent years is to brand the software I have been writing with the InterCAVE Network name.  Most of these programs I have just hung onto because I didn’t believe there would be a call for them anywhere else.  I’ve written a program that simplifies the way we enter in new users into Active Directory at where I work…  There was that one program that searched through a directory structure looking for programs of a certain type or extension while excluding whole directories or files…  Things like that.

It was the search program that got a reaction that I wouldn’t have expected.  It was the first of many new programs I’ve written over the past three years and sticks out in my mind as the project I used to teach myself C#.  The reaction I got to it was one that made me think that maybe someone else might at the very least find it interesting if not useful.  Why hadn’t I released it?  Mostly because it wasn’t finished and now I’ve lost track of which server I stored the source code on.

The fact that someone might want to come here, find a program or utility that I’ve written, and possibly even take an interest in it is the reason for the latest site shift.  The face of this site should be one that gives people access to the projects and present them with any information as far as updates goes.  This site, the developer site, should be where I tell you about the latest milestone for the oggEngine as well as any other development related task I’ve found to be interesting or insightful.

So there you have it…  Now go be good monkeys and write some code.