Archive for June 21st, 2010

Tell Your Windows Debugging Story

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Mad about debugging? Join the annual competition by telling your Windows debugging story (*) after 7/7/2010 and before 8/8/2010 (**). The first prize is 3 volumes of Memory Dump Analysis Anthology + Color Supplement all signed by the author. There are also 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th level prizes.

Please send your story using this page: http://www.dumpanalysis.org/contact or dmitry dot vostokov at dumpanalysis dot org (if your story is formatted with pictures)

(*) DumpAnalysis.org reserves the right to publish your story (in a modified form if necessary) in OpenTask magazines and books with full credit.

(**) 7/7 and 8/8 are originally proposed Memory Analysts and Debuggers Days. Other proposed days are 7/8 and 8/7.

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Icons for Memory Dump Analysis Patterns (Part 50)

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Today we introduce an icon for High Contention (critical sections) pattern:

B/W

Color

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Old Mental Dumps from June 21st

Monday, June 21st, 2010

I was looking for Wordpress plugins to display past year (two-, three-, etc.) old posts and after a few tries decided to create such posts manually to add fresh perspective and new comments on them (in italics). Today we start with June 21st.

2009:

• Debugalov has been burnt! - The book still sells every month and I’m now thinking about a hardcover gift edition. The cover fascinates many people, see for example this review: Book Review - The Adventures of Dr Debugalov. Now we also have Dr. DebugLove. Who is a good and who is a bad guy? Or is it a personality split?

2008:

No dumps on that day

2007:

Looks like the very prolific day. There were 3 blog posts:

• Crash Dump Analysis Patterns (Part 16a) - Stack overflow in kernel. Generated some comments and can also be seen in the following pattern case study: Lateral damage, stack overflow and execution residue

• Repair Clipboard Chain 2.0.1 - One of the most popular Citrix tool in the past

• Guessing stack trace - This old command still works for x86 WinDbg and x86 memory dumps

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -

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