Crash Dump Analysis

• Updated my about page to include Citrix Twitter Support information: http://bit.ly/6dTJiy #
• Analyzing minidumps from Windows 7 #

This is a new methodology I’m working upon. The idea came from reading “About the Author” page in a book I got yesterday in my post:

The Nomadic Developer: Surviving and Thriving in the World of Technology Consulting

I post a review here and on Amazon when finished reading. Just a few words now. This is the first career book I’m reading where I find pages in roman numerals useful. The page xiii itself looks like a good template (or an example) for a business-oriented CV summary. Thinking now about updating my CV book (2nd edition?):

Resume and CV: As a Book

With fix-privet,
Dr. DebugLove

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• Analyzing VB 6 crash (minidump and log) #
• Weekly C++ brush up: reading C++ Cookbook, C++ in a Nutshell, Beyond the C++ Standard Library #
• Listening to French expressions; reading Film Studies: The Basics and Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview while commuting #
• Memory dump analysis while listening to Vangelis: China and reading The Art of Artificial Evolution #
• Memorianic lunch: RHoP Volume 1, A History of Christianity, A History of God, Main Currents of Marxism, Software Studies, Trotsky, IBPA #
• Memory dump analysis while listening to Mozart: Piano Concertos 5,6,17 and reading Complexity Explained book #
• Got the book in post: The Nomadic Developer #
• Listening to French expressions; reading Theatre Studies: The Basics and Unmaking the West while commuting to the office #

Today we introduce an icon for False Positive Dump pattern:

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With fix-privet,
Dr. DebugLove

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While reading two balanced books about Trotsky I started to admire the Russian signature “С коммунистическим приветом, <имя>” (”S kommunisticheskim privetom, <name>”) that can be translated as “With communist greetings, <name>”. Did they laugh in their red sleeves? When I was at a primary school I loved History (that was long before I saw a computer at Moscow University and I loved Chemistry in secondary and high schools). In fact, to realize my childhood dream, OpenTask, an iterative and incremental publisher, plans to publish a centennial balanced 2 volume bilingual history of Russian revolutions (the work has began already):

http://www.opentask.com/history-titles

While commuting today I devised a similar but rectangular 2×2 greeting to suffix all my future posts except traces, philosophical (memoidealist), religious (memorianic) and scientific (memoretical) articles:

With fix-privet,
Dr. DebugLove

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When the performance is a performative and the performative is a performance we think about performability:

A virtualization is virtualization.

Peter Brook, The Empty Space

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• Weekly statistics class: reading books Freedman’s Statistics, Statistics in a Nutshell and Statistics Hacks #
• Listening to French expressions; reading Theatre Studies: The Basics and The Modern Mind while commuting home to work on WDN, MDAAV4, CDASA #
• Next reading notes on Software Generalist blog: http://bit.ly/9Cs2hW #
• Software trace analysis while listening to Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 10.3-13-14.1-14.2 and reading Musimathics, Volume 1 #
• Memory dump analysis while listening to Bach: Cantatas BWV 46-107-179 and reading Weak Links book #
• Memorianic lunch: Ancient Philosophy, A History of Christianity, Main Currents of Marxism, Software Studies, Trotsky (Service), ACM magazine #
• Memory dump analysis while listening Haydn: Stabat Mater and reading next 10 pages of Windows Internals #
• Listening to French expressions; reading Television Studies: The Basics and Panpsychism in the West while commuting to the office #
• Next reading notes on Software Generalist blog: http://bit.ly/cVa9H3 #
• First review of First Fault Software Problem Solving book: http://bit.ly/c0q4o5 #

Today we introduce an icon for Dynamic Memory Corruption (kernel pool) pattern:

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• Listening to French expressions; reading Television Studies: The Basics and History of Western Music while commuting home to work on WDN #
• Memory dump analysis while listening to Kenny G: Faith: A Holiday Album #
• Analysis of memory dump analysis while reading next 10 pages of Windows Internals book #
• Software trace analysis while listening to Mozart: Piano Concertos 2-9-12 #
• Memory dump analysis while listening to Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 7, 10.1, 10.2 and reading Musimathics, Volume 1 #
• Memorianic lunch: Greece and Rome, A History of Christianity, Main Currents of Marxism, Software Studies, Trotsky (Thatcher), IBPA magazine #
• Books in the post: Television Studies: The Basics, Film Studies: The Basics, Theatre Studies: The Basics, The Nature of Order (Book 1) #
• Software trace analysis while listening to Bach: Cantatas BWV 102-7-196 and reading Information and Its Role in Nature book #
• Listening to French expressions; reading Semiotics: The Basics and Images of Organization while commuting to the office #
• Bought the book: The Nomadic Developer: Surviving and Thriving in the World of Technology Consulting #

Today we introduce an icon for Dynamic Memory Corruption (process heap) pattern:

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Another alternative I considered to use is a chain metaphor but decided that it is more appropriate for linked lists.

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Just launched my game Blackjack, Jackpot and Slot applets written in pure Java 1.0 in 1997 and they still work in IE (I do launch them occasionally every few years):

http://vostokov.opentask.com/Applets.htm

Can’t believe it!

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• Weekly algorithmics class: reading books Flex & Bison, Algorithms in a Nutshell and The Algorithm Design Manual #
• Listening to German and French expressions; reading Semiotics: The Basics and The Variety of Life while commuting home to work on CDASA, WDN #
• Trace analysis while listening to Haydn: Grosse Orgelmesse 4, Salve Regina 2-4b, Missa brevis 1 & reading Information and Its Role in Nature #
• Listening to German and French expressions; reading Literary Theory: The Basics and Europe: A History while commuting to the office #

Today we introduce an icon for Multiple Exceptions (kernel mode) pattern:

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Just noticed that Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 3 is on a metaphysics bestseller list on Amazon DE today (the volume indeed has a few articles related to Memoidealism and memory dumps + memory traces worldview):

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• Processed last month twitter notifications #
• Normalizing email correspondence #
• Listening to German expressions; reading Literary Theory: The Basics and Writing Systems while commuting home to work on MDAAV4 and WDN #
• Postmortem software trace analysis while listening to Mozart: Piano Concertos 1, 21 and 25 #
• Pattern-driven software trace analysis while listening to Bach: Cantatas BWV 116, 13 and 144 #
• Got Encyclopedia of Evolution (2 Volumes) in the post. It is interseting to compare it with Evolution: The First Four Billion Years #
• Memorianic lunch: RHoP Vol 1, A History of Christianity, Main Currents of Marxism, Software Studies, Trotsky (Thatcher), The Writer magazine #
• Comparative analysis of software traces while listening to Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 1,2,3 and reading Modeling: Gateway to the Unknown #
• Listening to German expressions; reading Judaism: The Basics and The Third Reich: A New History while commuting to the office #

I borrowed a pattern icon idea from the book I’m reading now: Algorithms in a Nutshell

From now on, every memory dump analysis pattern (and later trace analysis patterns) will have platform-independent pictorial representation. Today we introduce an icon for Multiple Exceptions (user mode) pattern:

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Sometimes we have a sequence of Activity Regions with increasing values of Statement Current, like depicted here:

The boundaries of regions may be blurry and arbitrarily drawn. Nevertheless, the current is visibly increasing or decreasing, hence the name of this pattern: Trace Acceleration, by analogy with physical acceleration, second-order derivative. We can also metaphorically use here the notion of a partial derivative for trace statement current and acceleration for Threads of Activity and Adjoint Threads of Activity but whether it is useful remains to be seen.

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• Weekly evening reading: The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, Modern Multithreading, Synchronization Algorithms and Concurrent Programming #

• Weekly embedded boost: reading Software Engineering for Real-Time Systems, Bebop to the Boolean Boogie, Designing Embedded Hardware #

• Listening to German expressions; reading Judaism: The Basics and A History of the Software Industry while commuting home to answer e-mails #
• Short memorianic lunch: Main Currents of Marxism (resume reading from last summer) #
• Listening to German expressions; reading Art History: The Basics and From Newspeak to Cyberspeak while commuting to the office #