Archive for November 24th, 2010

Paleo-debugging: Excavated Minidump

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

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Trace Analysis Patterns (Part 33)

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

In any system there is an expected Event Sequence Order as a precondition to its normal behaviour. Any out-of-order events should raise the suspicion bar as they might result or lead to synchronization problems. It need not be a sequence of trace messages from different threads but also between processes, for example, image load events in CDF / ETW traces can indicate a misconfiguration in service startup order. The following diagram depicts a possible pattern scenario:

 

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Double Fault as seen from Salthill

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

I was flying a kite with my son last month when a short Irish rain suddenly happened. After that we were happy to observe a double rainbow from Salthill (Monkstown):

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MessageBox at Dublin Zoo

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

Visited Dublin Zoo with my family during last Halloween weekend where my daughter pointed me to this funny message box:

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CDB for Kids

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

When looking for the shortest book titles found this little book with a buzzing bug on its cover: Cdb!

CDB also stands for Console DeBugger from Microsoft Debugging Tools for Windows. It can be used in place of WinDbg for user space targets if you don’t like graphical interface or when GUI interferes with debugging.

I’m ordering it now to teach my son symbols! Although I should write my own book for OpenTask Baby Turing series.

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