The Old New Thing

February 2006 - Page 4 of 4 - The Old New Thing

The pornography of food

February 2, 2006 Feb 2, 2006 02/2/06
Raymond Chen
On the Media picks up on the Harper's Magazine article Debbie Does Salad and chats with Frederick Kaufman, the article's author, on the curious similarity between the way cooking shows and pornographic films present their subject matter. Cooking shows target the 18–35 male, even though these people are unlikely to be cooks themselves...

Be careful when interpreting security descriptors across machine boundaries

February 2, 2006 Feb 2, 2006 02/2/06
Raymond Chen
While it's true the function can be used to check whether a particular security descriptor grants access to a token, you need to be aware of where that security descriptor came from. If the security descriptor came from another machine (for example, if you got it by calling and passing the path to a file on a network share), calling the ...

The military marriage of convenience

February 1, 2006 Feb 1, 2006 02/1/06
Raymond Chen
The marriage of convenience is alive and well, not that is really a surprise to anybody. I found interesting this story on how some young members of the US military are getting married for purely economic reasons. By getting married, he would get a housing stipend and permission to move off-base. And as his legal wife, she would get health...

The per-class window styles and things really are per-class

February 1, 2006 Feb 1, 2006 02/1/06
Raymond Chen
Earlier, I discussed which window style bits belong to whom. One detail of this that I neglected to emphasize is that since the lower 16 bits of the window style are defined by the class, you can't just take styles from one class and apply them to another. For example, you can't create a button control and pass the style expecting to have ...