Crash Dump Analysis

Paperback edition of Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 2 is finally available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Search Inside is also available on Amazon. In addition, I updated the list of recommended books:

Listmania! Crash Dump Analysis and Debugging

Hardcover edition will be available on Amazon and B&N in 2-3 weeks.

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“Everything is memory dump.”

I’m very excited to announce that Volume 2 is available in paperback, hardcover and digital editions:

Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 2

In one or two weeks paperback edition should also appear on Amazon and other bookstores. Amazon hardcover edition is planned to be available by the end of October.

I’m often asked when Volume 3 is available and I currently plan to release it in October - November, 2009. In the mean time I’m planning to concentrate on other publishing projects. 

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The book is nearly finished and here is the final TOC:

Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 2: Table of Contents

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Album cover and songs list from Narasimha Vedala:

DUMPSTATIC
Dr. Debugalov Feat.
Assembly Crooks and
E.I.P. Wailers.

1. Mistah Dumpstatic Feat. E.I.P Wailers.
2. Attached to your pros-ass.
3. I put a dump on you.
4. Be my debugger.
5. When push comes to shove, call Debugalov.
6. Pop ECX Feat. Assembly Crooks.
7. You corrupted my memory Feat. E.I.P Wailers.
8. Dark side of the dump.
9. Sweet Dump o’mine.
10. Optimize your soul.
11. Load address blues Feat. Assembly Crooks.
12. Good bye, Kernel.

Some music for this album will be written with the help of Dump2Wave technology Stay statically tuned to further announcements.

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The Songs of Distant Earth is my favorite Mike Oldfield album. Highly recommended to keep optimism when doing remote debugging on different systems.

The Songs of Distant Earth

Here is my alternative track naming:

1. The Decision To Go Remote
2. Let There Be A Connection
3. Super System Crash
4. Connection Established
5. First Break In
6. The Sea Of Threads
7. Setting Breakpoints
8. Prayer For A Match
9. Lament For Users
10. The Kernel
11. Screensaver Starts
12. Tabular Output
13. The Shining Threads
14. Breakpoint Match
15. The Sunken Debugger
16. Contemplating Observations
17. A New Session

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Although the first bug (the real one) was found in Mark II (see Software bug) the first general-purpose electronic computer was ENIAC and surely it had defects like overflow. In 80s there was an electronic music group called Software. I have a few CDs and listen to them sometimes. One album is called Software-Visions and it has these tracks (one of them is called Xenix - Microsoft UNIX-based OS):

1. Software Visions
2. Secrets
3. Stranger
4. Realtime
5. Mainframe
6. Snobol
7. Xenix
8. Syntax
9. Overflow
10. Interface
11. Eniac

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Looking at computer memory visual images combined with listening to the incredible nostalgic music composed by Oystein Sevag is highly recommended to relieve stress while immersing yourself in the vast depths of memory hierarchy. I really like “Painful Love” tracks. Is love and passion for programming painful?…

Visual

Link

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Klaus Schulze was one of my favorite electronic composers in 90s. Now I’m revisiting my past collection and recommend ”X” album featuring several musical biographies including Nietzsche. “X” here stands for 10th album not for “x” WinDbg command. Good for meditation during slow debugging sessions. All music is very sad and mystical. I even think about this title: “Musical Biography of a Bug“:

X

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If you remember I promised to review this CD:

 The first Memory Analysis CD album

Finally it arrived by post and here it is:

I’ve just finished listening to it. It is wonderful! Clearly belongs to my Music for Debugging collection. Here is my commentary (italics) on track titles:

1. Chameleon 
   It crashes then hangs then spikes then leaks. You never know what happens next…
2. Silence Before The Storm 
   Waiting for the problem to start dumping memory
3. Appearances 
   Multiple occurrences of the issue ease crash dump collection
4. Memory Analysis 
   Memory dump analysis activity
5. Voices From Heaven 
   It’s my blog full of crash dump analysis patterns
6. Figure In The Fog 
   It’s that DLL! I see it clearly!!!
7. Diamond Tear 
   Customer is happy
8. The Toy Soldier 
   WinDbg
9. Tears In Dragon’s Eyes 
   Operating system vendor is happy too
10. Forgotten Song 
   No pasaran (bugs)
11. Skies
   We are debugging gods!

Enjoy :-) 

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Just discovered this album from Polish band Gutter Sirens on Amazon:

Memory Analysis

I haven’t listened to it yet. Will post a review as soon as it arrives

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