Monthly summary of my Literate Scientist blog:
The Third Reich: A New History
Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching
This month was very busy for me as a publisher, an editor and a writer and I didn’t have much time to read. Hope in December I write more book reviews.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -
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Warning!: This post belongs to Build Date Astrology category. Do not take it seriously.
The Day of Measured Testing
Modules built on November 30 have a built-in capacity for overcoming challenges of hostile environments. They are capable of bringing surprises to security attacks, for example. One can learn a lot about them by studying their traces or doing reverse engineering. November 30 components do their work to the utmost degree of quality with a little waste of CPU and memory. Message boxes they pop up have a subtle sense of thought-provoking humour but it can also be a full blown thigh-slapping. November 30 systems are very defensive when attacked. They are stubbornly resistant to reverse engineering but at the same time very open to honest debugging.
DLL, SYS and EXE born on this date:
tifsfilt.sys Tue Nov 30 07:16:27 2004
alrsvc.dll Tue Nov 30 17:31:14 1999
ntkrpamp.exe Fri Nov 30 14:54:49 2007
Tppwrif.sys Tue Nov 30 02:38:22 2004
Weaknesses: Over-reactive to code and data injection, funny behaviour.
Strengths: Thorough developed, dynamic responsiveness.
Advice: Improvise during troubleshooting and debugging. Admire control vs. spontaneity balance. Laugh at your failures.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -
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I often hear about cosmic mysteries or influences when problems happen in computer environments. Passing by an astrology section in a local book shop yesterday a revelation came to me that a compile / link time (build time) might influence a component (DLL, EXE, SYS files), product or system behaviour. From now on I’m going to blog about every build date with examples. And as usual, I’m also going to publish a book for this iterative and incremental activity called:
Title: The Secret Language of Build Dates: Unique Astrology Profiles for Every Build of the Year with Advice on Testing, Troubleshooting and Debugging
ISBN: 978-1906717407
Knowing build dates will help you to test, troubleshoot and even debug software in hopeless cases where you don’t know where to start. Astrology will help you to choose a random direction! Finally the output of WinDbg lmv command has more sense to me 
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -
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