June 10, 2005 | The Old New Thing

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Maintaining high standards at the International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition

Raymond Chen June 10, 2005 Jun 10, 2005 06/10/05

The quintennial International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition will be held later this year, and I was reminded that the awards for "Best performance of a mazurka" and "Best performance of a concerto" have not been awarded since 1985. Simply put: Nobody since 1985 has been good enough to deserve it. The year 1995 was a particularly bad ...

Why does Explorer eject the CD after you finish burning it?

Raymond Chen June 10, 2005 Jun 10, 2005 06/10/05

Partly as a convenience, but partly to work around buggy hardware. The developer responsible for CD burning explained it to me. Most CD drives cache information about the disc in their internal memory to improve performance. However, some drives have a bug where they fail to update the cache after the CD has been written to. As a result, you ...

The Old New Thing

June 10, 2005 | The Old New Thing

Maintaining high standards at the International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition

Why does Explorer eject the CD after you finish burning it?

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