Archive for June 3rd, 2011

On President’s Daily Briefs (PDBs)

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

Found it funny that President’s Daily Brief is abbreviated as PDB. For intelligence analysts who might be reading this post there are a few links explaining PDB files:

I also suggest to deabbreviate PDB files as Programmer’s Daily Briefs in the context of nightly builds on Windows platforms.

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Bugtation No.143

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

Finally on the parallels between memory dump and software trace analysis and intelligence (Memoretics is a discipline that studies computer memory snapshots and their evolution in time):

Memoretics ”opens a unique window on” software “affairs”.

John H. Hedley, The Challenges of Intelligence Analysis, Strategic Intelligence, Volume 1

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