Charles Angelich wrote in a message to All:

 CA> Didn't think much of this until people wrote into Fred Langa about 
 CA> CDs exploding in their new 52x CD drives.

I hadn't heard about that.

 CA> There are some theories as to why but no way to prevent this (yet).

Don't run them so fast?  :-)

 CA> The suggestion is to not have a CD drive at eye level where you 
 CA> set to use your computer.  I think this may be good advice?

Seems like reasonable advice to me...

Though for the most part I don't run stuff that fast.  Heck,  with the
sizes of new hard drives it almost makes sense to buffer stuff on to HD, 
and read it from there if you need it faster.

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