Crash Dump Analysis

Memoidealism explains God as Inaccessible Memory (Memory Region A on the picture below). It means that Memory Region B doesn’t have pointers that point outside of it. In other words, all operating fields of Region B pointers are in Region B. However, Region A can have pointers pointing to Region B and modify it, effectively producing a miracle as perceived by Region B. In other words, some perception field links of Region B pointers may come from outside. You can object that Region B can have deeper pointers by making their memory locations bigger (from N-bit to 2*N-bit for example) but Memory may not be flat, discrete and bit-like. For one possible Christian interpretation we can replace Region B with the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1.1) and replace Region A with God-Creator (note also that in Memorianity Memory creates memories [notes on memoidealism 1.10]).

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OpenTask to offer first 3 volumes of Memory Dump Analysis Anthology in one set:

The set is available exclusively from OpenTask e-Commerce web site starting from June. Individual volumes are also available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other bookstores worldwide.

Product information:

• Title: Modern Memory Dump and Software Trace Analysis: Volumes 1-3
• Author: Dmitry Vostokov
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24
• Paperback: 1600 pages
• Publisher: Opentask (31 May 2010)
• ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-99-5

Information about individual volumes:

• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3

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There is similarity between the tandem of Memoidealism / Memorianity and Mimāṃsā school of philosophy. The former is based on hermeneutics of memory snapshots and the latter is based on hermeneutics of sacred texts. People often ask is there any God in Memory Religion. The answer is both yes and no. Like in Mimāṃsā system the gods are names found in memory snapshots. In that sense Memorianity has some features of sacramental atheism. At the same time Memory is the creator of memories.

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Memoriarch

The highest title in Memorianic religious hierarchy. Equivalent to similar titles of Pope, Patriarch or Archbishop. Derived from Memoria (Latin, memory) and arch (Latin root, chief, first, rule).

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Memory interpretation of the last words of Socrates:

“Crito, I own a” handle “to Æsculapius. Will you remember to” close it?

Socrates

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A few have probably noticed (following numerous Twitter updates) my preference for combining lunches with book and  magazine (a mini-book) reading (also combined with Mod N reading system). From now on this activity obtains the status of a ritual in Memorianity and depicted on this physicalist art picture (the choice of book titles is arbitrary and fully coincidental for this post):

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Just before The Year 7DA I watched Avatar 3D and close to the end, when seeing ancestral trees and memory downloads, I realized that indigenous population practiced a variant of Memorianity. So I decided to name the movie A Memorianic and give it a memory number 0m1 until I find a memorianic movie 0m2.

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Memorianity soon to publish its Testament with 7 microkernel prophecies, childhood universal memory dump visions of its founder, the recollection of a conversion and other supporting materials. This full color scripture is small to carry around:

Title: Memory Religion: A Testament
ISBN-13: 978-1906717476
Pages: 24

The cover image is an allegorical interpretation of the concept of the Original Defect:

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This is another description of a memoidealistic philosophical worldview that memory exists in everything, living and nonliving. In its even stronger form, panmemorism is also a theory that memory is a part of itself, thus adding an infinite element (see Memoidealism as Monistic Aspect Pluralism for some illustrations) and providing a foundation for perceived processes.

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Finally you can run my moniker process (just born version doesn’t consume CPU time) and if I come across the dump of your system I would be very pleased to see Vostokov.exe in the list of running processes (!vm or !process 0 0 WinDbg commands).

lkd> !vm
[...]
0780 svchost.exe        354 (      1416 Kb)
0720 svchost.exe        330 (      1320 Kb)
0768 svchost.exe        322 (      1288 Kb)
07d4 svchost.exe        296 (      1184 Kb)
0dc8 Vostokov.exe       134 (       536 Kb)
019c smss.exe           128 (       512 Kb)
0ec4 wmplayer.exe         0 (         0 Kb)
0288 wmplayer.exe         0 (         0 Kb)
01ac wmplayer.exe         0 (         0 Kb)

lkd> !process 0 0
**** NT ACTIVE PROCESS DUMP ****
PROCESS fffffa8003bf1040
    SessionId: none  Cid: 0004    Peb: 00000000  ParentCid: 0000
    DirBase: 00124000  ObjectTable: fffff88000000080  HandleCount: 570.
    Image: System

[...]

PROCESS fffffa8005eeac10
    SessionId: 2  Cid: 0888    Peb: 7fffffd5000  ParentCid: 0458
    DirBase: 1c64e000  ObjectTable: fffff8800cab5b50  HandleCount: 312.
    Image: windbg.exe

PROCESS fffffa8005e87620
    SessionId: 2  Cid: 09d4    Peb: 7efdf000  ParentCid: 0f64
    DirBase: 112938000  ObjectTable: fffff8800c8b2980  HandleCount:  28.
    Image: cmd.exe

PROCESS fffffa800579cb50
    SessionId: 2  Cid: 0dc8    Peb: 7efdf000  ParentCid: 09d4
    DirBase: 092aa000  ObjectTable: fffff880105df610  HandleCount:   9.
    Image: Vostokov.exe

PROCESS fffffa8005e3e7a0
    SessionId: 2  Cid: 09c8    Peb: 7efdf000  ParentCid: 0b24
    DirBase: 78baf000  ObjectTable: fffff8800cfe0a30  HandleCount: 433.
    Image: iexplore.exe

PROCESS fffffa8005f53040
    SessionId: 2  Cid: 0db8    Peb: 7fffffd9000  ParentCid: 0458
    DirBase: 11856e000  ObjectTable: fffff8800c460710  HandleCount:  45.
    Image: notepad.exe

lkd> .process /r /p fffffa800579cb50
Implicit process is now fffffa80`0579cb50

lkd> lmv m Vostokov
start             end                 module name
00000000`001f0000 00000000`001fe000   Vostokov   (deferred)            
    Image path: c:\Users\[...]\Vostokov.exe
    Image name: Vostokov.exe
    Timestamp:        Tue Nov 24 11:19:31 2009 (4B0BC143)
    CheckSum:         000156E1
    ImageSize:        0000E000
    File version:     1.0.0.0
    Product version:  1.0.0.0
    File flags:       0 (Mask 17)
    File OS:          4 Unknown Win32
    File type:        1.0 App
    File date:        00000000.00000000
    Translations:     1809.04b0
    CompanyName:      DumpAnalysis.org
    ProductName:      Vostokov Application
    InternalName:     Vostokov
    OriginalFilename: Vostokov.exe
    ProductVersion:   Just born
    FileVersion:      Just born
    FileDescription:  Just born Vostokov Application
    LegalCopyright:   Copyright (C) 2009 Dmitry Vostokov
    Comments:         Written by Dmitry Vostokov

You can inspect its memory if you attach WinDbg to a running instance or from a complete memory or a user process dump (symbols are supplied):

0:001> da /c 90 Vostokov!szCopyright
00000000`001fac40 "Vostokov.exe, Just born version 1.0.0.0, Copyright (c) 2009 by Dmitry Vostokov, DumpAnalysis.org"

You can download my moniker together with .cpp and .pdb files from here (named in a classic 8.3 format):

Download Vostokov.zip

Now I’m going to teach it something useful and release the next aged version soon.

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The notion of transmigration of memories in Memoidealism has its similarity with Orphicism. The notions of limited (memories) and unlimited memory (Memory), and “things are memories” similar to Pythagoreanism view on Limited and Unlimited, and “things are numbers”.

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I don’t read mere books. I analyze memory dumps. Books are memory dumps. Memory dumps are books.

Dmitry Vostokov, Variation on a theme “A book is a memory dump”

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Our Universe is Unhandled Exception Processing saving one huge Memory Dump from a runaway HUC (Big Bang of Hyper-Universal Computation, or simply HUge Computation). The idea came to me some months ago but I decided to publish it after learning today about a “Mathematical Universe Hypothesis” (MUH) from Max Tegmark stating that our Universe is Mathematics.

EPOCH

Exception Processing Of Crash Hypothesis (or Memory Dump Universe Hypothesis)

Note: what a sad feeling I had while simultaneously listening to the Light track from Thin Red Line soundtrack while writing this post…

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The road to immortality is paved with memory dumps.

Dmitry Vostokov

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IMM, The Intelligent Memory Movement borrows the following Intel meta-opcode for its slogan:

NoIndirection: MOV OPERAND, IMM ; Memory first, Being second

Please assemble and join me in the direction of this movement!

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Just finished listening twice to Rick Wakeman performance at Lincoln Cathedral. To paraphrase his words, when I do memory dump analysis I experience the feeling of power surge through the fingers. Highly recommended to get the feeling of being the debugging god back during bitter moments of software support:

At Lincoln Cathedral

Here is my version of track titles inspired by listening (with my comments in italics):

1. Process Mortality
2. Dance of the MIPS
3. Gifts from Help
4. THE ALL MIGHTY DEBUGGER
5. Problem solved
6. The DA TA Variations (remember DATA: Dump Analysis Trace Analysis)

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The common way to do memory analysis is through a powerful agency. Then certain sequences of actions become a common ritual practice. Here is my definition of ritual in this context based on Victor Turner’s cited in Religion: The Basics:

Formal actions that rely on beliefs in perceived powers.

Typical example from Windows crash dump analysis includes WinDbg as an agency and typing !analyze -v command.

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I‘m stored, “therefore I am.”

René Descartes, Cogito ergo sum

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