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August 2008 - Posts

Gotchas associated with using WM_PRINTCLIENT…

Yesterday I mentioned WM_PRINTCLIENT and how awesome it is when trying to strictly control the drawing of your application. Part of the reason it took over a week to change the drawing model is that there are a number of serious gotcha’s associated with Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:47 AM by LarryOsterman | 22 Comments
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Larry’s new favorite windows message – WM_PRINTCLIENT

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been fuddling around doing UI programming recently – it’s a bit different from my usual work deep in the bowels of the <insert whatever subsystem Larry happens to be working on (redirector, audio stack, POP3 server, whatever)>. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 5:51 PM by LarryOsterman | 18 Comments
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What makes a bug a security bug?

In my last post, I mentioned that security bugs were different from other bugs.  Daniel Prochnow asked : What is the difference between bug and vulnerability? In my point of view, in a production enviroment, every bug that may lead to a loss event Read More...
Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 10:29 AM by LarryOsterman | 22 Comments
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Go see Shrek the Musical. Right now!

We just got back home from seeing Shrek the Musical which is currently in try-outs at the Fifth Avenue Theatre   here in Seattle .   This show's going to be BIG when it hits Broadway.  I'm talking Hairspray big. It's one of the funniest Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 17, 2008 12:12 AM by LarryOsterman | 9 Comments
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Linus Torvalds is “Fed up with the ‘security circus’”

There’s been a lot of discussion on the intertubes about some comments that Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux has made about security vulnerabilities and disclosure. Not surprisingly, there’s been a fair amount of discussion amongst the various MSFT Read More...
Posted Friday, August 15, 2008 1:28 PM by LarryOsterman | 23 Comments
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The SS_PATHELLIPSIS, SS_ENDELLIPSIS and SS_WORDELLIPSIS styles force static controls to disable word wrap.

I didn’t find this in the documentation for the static standard window so I figured I’d put it out in my blog in the hopes that someone else won’t get stuck on this problem. The Windows “static” control has a number of styles that control how the control Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 11:08 AM by LarryOsterman | 5 Comments
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Why doesn’t Windows support amplification of audio samples?

Nils Arthur asked in another post: While we are talking volume controls. Could you explain why it's only possible to lower the volume in Windows (i.e. setting a volume between 0% and 100%) and not raise it (i.e setting it higher than 100%)? Before I get Read More...
Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 9:36 AM by LarryOsterman | 15 Comments
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Remembering Aaron Reynolds

Last Saturday I received an email from Tandy Trower, a long time Microsoft employee letting me know that Aaron Reynolds had unexpectedly passed away .  It threw me for a loop, Aaron isn’t that much older than I am and I'm not used to hearing about Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2008 3:48 PM by LarryOsterman | 8 Comments
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THIS is what a Windows PC should look like…

We had a neighborhood picnic on Saturday at our neighbors house.  While we were chatting in the kitchen, I noticed their new computer. They had an HP TouchSmart computer , and I have to say that I was blown away by it.  I really liked the industrial Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 05, 2008 8:53 AM by LarryOsterman | 18 Comments

What’s wrong with this code, Part 22 – the answers

The other day, I wrote about measuring the dimensions of a piece of text using the DrawText API . My code worked just great when I initially tested it (obviously it’s a part of a larger chunk of code that does more complicated work).  The problem Read More...
Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 1:32 PM by LarryOsterman | 14 Comments
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What’s wrong with this code, part 22 – Drawing Text…

Recently I’ve been working on something that I’ve never done before in my almost 24 years at Microsoft.    For the past 23ish years, I’ve been a plumber – all the work I’ve done has been under the covers.  But for the next version of Windows, Read More...
Posted Friday, August 01, 2008 3:07 PM by LarryOsterman | 43 Comments
 
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