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On Delphi
Being a long time Delphi programmer, I really enjoyed this blog posting about learning Delphi. My favorite quote: The Delphi compiler itself is lightning fast. Sometimes I compile twice because I’m not sure I actually hit the compile key. It is so true. The first thing I do when I install Delphi is to check…
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Windows PIO mode fallback problem
Windows (starting from Win2k I think) has an interesting feature: after a certain number of failures on a given IDE channel, it reverts that channel from DMA to PIO mode. This is perfectly reasonable for hard disks (although a user warning would still be useful), but for CD-ROMs this is deadly because a bad CD…