The Old New Thing

Death at a Funeral, Cashback, and Tell No One

Another installment in Raymond's short reviews of SIFF movies he's seen recently. (image) (image) (image) (image) (image) (image) (image) (image) (image) (image) Death at a Funeral: The family funeral gets off to a bad start when the funeral home delivers the wrong body, and it's the only mishap that actually gets fixed without further ...

Choosing a provocative debug signature

Back in Windows 95, there was an elusive heap corruption bug in the graphics engine, and after a lot of analysis, the graphics folks were convinced that the corruption was coming from outside their component, and they had a pretty good idea who the corruptor was, but they needed proof. One of the standard techniques of narrowing down the...