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Jun 10, 2005

Maintaining high standards at the International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition

Raymond Chen

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 year ...

Jun 10, 2005

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

Raymond Chen

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 can w...