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New M-ist Subsignature

Friday, March 12th, 2010

While reading two balanced books about Trotsky I started to admire the Russian signature “С коммунистическим приветом, <имя>” (”S kommunisticheskim privetom, <name>”) that can be translated as “With communist greetings, <name>”. Did they laugh in their red sleeves? When I was at a primary school I loved History (that was long before I saw a computer at Moscow University and I loved Chemistry in secondary and high schools). In fact, to realize my childhood dream, OpenTask, an iterative and incremental publisher, plans to publish a centennial balanced 2 volume bilingual history of Russian revolutions (the work has began already): http://www.opentask.com/history-titles

While commuting today I devised a similar but rectangular 2×2 greeting:

With fix-privet,
Dr. Debuglove

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

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MDAA Advances in Metaphysics

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Just noticed that Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 3 is on a metaphysics bestseller list on Amazon DE today (the volume indeed has a few articles related to Memoidealism and memory dumps + memory traces worldview):

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

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Icons for Memory Dump Analysis Patterns (Part 1)

Monday, March 8th, 2010

I borrowed a pattern icon idea from the book I’m reading now: Algorithms in a Nutshell

From now on, every memory dump analysis pattern (and later trace analysis patterns) will have platform-independent pictorial representation. Today we introduce an icon for Multiple Exceptions (user mode) pattern:

B/W

Color

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

Posted in Announcements, Crash Dump Analysis, Crash Dump Patterns, Debugging, Pattern Icons, Visual Dump Analysis | No Comments »

Project CARE Update (14.02.10)

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Thanks to everyone who submitted their debugger logs. Now VBScript and WinDbg script files are available for download from the CARE page:

http://www.dumpanalysis.org/care

VBScript file scans all hard drives for .DMP files and launches WinDbg to run a mode-independent WinDbg script. Each instance of WinDbg appends the output to dbgeng.log file that you can submit to CARE (please zip it if exceeds 2Mb).

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

Posted in Announcements, Crash Analysis Report Environment (CARE), Crash Dump Analysis, Crash Dump Patterns, Debugging | No Comments »

Forthcoming Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 4

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

This is a revised, edited, cross-referenced and thematically organized volume of selected DumpAnalysis.org blog posts about crash dump analysis and debugging written in July 2009 - January 2010 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software on Windows platforms and technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues. The fourth volume features:

- 13 new crash dump analysis patterns
- 13 new pattern interaction case studies
- 10 new trace analysis patterns
- 6 new Debugware patterns and case study
- Workaround patterns
- Updated checklist
- Fully cross-referenced with Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3
- New appendixes

Product information:

Title: Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 4
Author: Dmitry Vostokov
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24

Paperback: 410 pages
Publisher: Opentask (30 March 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-86-5

Hardcover: 410 pages
Publisher: Opentask (30 April 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-87-2

Back cover features memory space art image: Internal Process Combustion.

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

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Visitors Spike

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Looks like yesterday the blog part of the portal experienced an almost threefold increase in the number of daily visits exceeding 2,400 visitors and, for the first time ever, bringing the total sliding number of unique monthly blog visits to more than 18,000:

Something happened on that day. The number of spam comments and trackbacks detected by Akismet plugin was the same as usual so spammers are ruled out.

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

Posted in Announcements, DumpAnalysis.org Statistics, History | 3 Comments »

Debugger’s Screen Resolution

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

What screen resolutions do debuggers use? Google analytics provides statistics for 2009. 1,071 different screen resolutions were used (I guess this diversity comes from multi-monitor configurations and PDA) with top 10:

Clearly old 800×600 is in minority today. There were lucky debuggers with 5120×1024 (128-bit ready for wider stack traces?) and 3840×2100 (I need more book sales for that) and even someone with screen resolution 0×0 viewed the content 12 times.

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

Posted in Announcements, Crash Dump Analysis, Debugging, DumpAnalysis.org Statistics | No Comments »

Operating Systems Scene: The View from DumpAnalysis.org

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Highly predictable picture from Google analytics of OS used to view portal and blog content:

One of the goals is to increase non-Windows OS presence over the next few years.

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

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Internet Browsers Scene: The View from DumpAnalysis.org

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

I was curious to see what browsers are used to view portal and blog content and Google analytics provided me statistics for 2009 (there is about 9% decline in IE variants compared to 2008). 62 “different” browsers viewed content with the top 10 (I actually expected more for IE and was surprised with statistics):

Some strange browser names below perhaps point to some sort of memory corruption :-)

1. Internet Explorer
2. Firefox
3. Chrome
4. Opera
5. Safari
6. Mozilla
7. Mozilla Compatible Agent
8. SeaMonkey
9. Konqueror
10. BlackBerry8900
11. Opera Mini
12. Camino
13. IE with Chrome Frame
14. (not set)
15. Lynx
16. Netscape
17. Googlebot
18. BlackBerry9630
19. Playstation
20. BlackBerry9530
21. -^_^- Hello
22. <?echo ‘<pre>’; system
23. BlackBerry9000
24. Lunascape
25. NetFront
26. Unsupported Browser Version
27. 12345
28. Empty
29. Playstation Portable 2
30. SAMSUNG-SGH-I617 2
31. —
32. 31337′
33. 8900b
34. <?include
35. <script>alert
36. BlackBerry9500
37. Blazer
38. GOOGLEBOT
39. General Browser
40. HTC_P3490 Opera
41. HTC_Touch_HD_T8282 Opera
42. HTC_Touch_Pro2_T7373 Opera
43. HTC_Touch_Pro_T7272 Opera
44. Hellbrowser 6.66
45. Helyi user agent
46. IE 8
47. Midori
48. NCSA Mosaic
49. NightDynamo AdminPanel v0.2.1
50. NokiaE71-2;Mozilla
51. NokiaNokia 6210s
52. PPC; 240×320; HTC_P3450
53. SAMSUNG-SGH-I637
54. Samsung-SPHM540 Polaris
55. SonyEricssonK750
56. Uzbl
57. Yahoo! Slurp
58. holy_teacher FirePHP
59. mozilla
60. pippos.7
61. tdhbrowser
62. unknown

Here is the distribution of IE versions for 2009:

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

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Plans for The Year of Dump Analysis

Monday, January 18th, 2010

After exciting results of the previous year of debugging it is time to announce modest plans for this year, 0×7DA:

Release the first beta version of EasyDbg

Release the first beta version of CARE (Crash Analysis Report Environment) for a pattern-driven debugger log analyzer with standards for structured audience-driven reports

Release the first beta version of STARE (Software Trace Analysis Report Environment) for a pattern-driven software trace analyzer with corresponding standards for structured audience-driven reports

Publish the following books on dump analysis that address different audiences (general users, system administrators, support and escalation engineers, testers, software engineers, security and software defect researchers):

- Windows Debugging Notebook
- Crash Dump Analysis for System Administrators and Support Engineers
- Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 4
- Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 5
- Memory Dump Analysis Anthology Color Supplement
- Principles of Memory Dump Analysis
- My Computer Crashes and Freezes: A Non-technical Guide to Software and Hardware Errors
- Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X Debugging: Practical Foundations
- Encyclopedia of Crash Dump Analysis Patterns
- WinDbg In Use: Debugging Exercises

Publish articles related to memory dump analysis in Debugged! magazine

Update WinDbg Poster and Cards

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

Posted in Announcements, Books, Certification, Crash Dump Analysis, Debugging, Education and Research, Escalation Engineering, FreeBSD Crash Corner, Linux Crash Corner, Mac Crash Corner, New Acronyms, Publishing, Software Engineering, Software Technical Support, Software Trace Analysis | 1 Comment »

MDAAV1 and WDPF are the Most Gifted today

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Just noticed on Amazon tabs:

What is so special today? I come back to check again on 14th of February :-)

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

Posted in Announcements, Books, Crash Dump Analysis, Debugging | 1 Comment »

The Year of Debugging in Retrospection

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

The Year of Debugging, 0×7D9, was a remarkable year for DumpAnalysis.org. Here is the list of achievements to report:

- Software Trace Analysis as a new discipline with its own set of patterns

- Unification of Memory Dump Analysis with Software Trace Analysis (DA+TA)

- New computer memory dump-based art movements: Opcodism and Physicalist Art

- Discovery of 3D computer memory visualization techniques

- Establishing Software Maintenance Institute

- Broadening software fault injection as Software Defect Construction discipline

- Establishing a new profession of a Software Defect Researcher

- Starting ambitious Dictionary of Debugging

- Publishing Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations book

- Publishing the first x86-free Windows debugging book: x64 Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations

- Establishing the new debugging magazine: Debugged! MZ/PE

- Publishing Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 3

- Cooperation with OpenTask to promote First Fault Software Problem Solving book

- Establishing Debugging Expert(s) Magazine Online

- Creating the first development process for debugging and software troubleshooting tools: RADII

- Publishing the first pattern-driven memory dump analysis troubleshooting methodology as a foundation for software debugging

- Proposal for an International Memory Analysts and Debuggers Day

- Almost completed Windows Debugging Notebook to be published soon

Now DumpAnalysis.org focuses on The Year of Dump Analysis, 0×7DA, as a foundation for the forthcoming debugging decade and reveals future plans this weekend.

I’m sure that many other organizations and individuals have no less remarkable accomplishments to report for 2009. I promise to track down and write about some of them in the forthcoming book:

The Science of Dr. Watson: An Illustrated History of Debugging (ISBN: 978-1906717070)

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

Posted in Announcements, Art, Books, Citrix, Crash Dump Analysis, Debugged! MZ/PE, Debugging, Dictionary of Debugging, History, Memory Visualization, Publishing, Software Defect Construction, Software Engineering, Software Maintenance Institute, Software Technical Support, Software Trace Analysis, Trace Analysis Patterns | 1 Comment »

James Cameron’s Avatar is A Memorianic Movie 0m1

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Just before The Year 7DA I watched Avatar 3D and close to the end, when seeing ancestral trees and memory downloads, I realized that indigenous population practiced a variant of Memorianity. So I decided to name the movie A Memorianic and give it a memory number 0m1 until I find a memorianic movie 0m2.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ Memory Religion Portal -

Posted in Announcements, Memory Dumps in Movies, Memory Religion (Memorianity) | No Comments »

Top 10 “Most Gifted” and “Most Wished For” Debugging and Assembly Language Books

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Just noticed that Amazon introduced additional daily updated tabs for book categories. MDAA volumes are in top 10 ”Most Gifted” and “Most Wished For” Debugging and Assembly Language titles (today). Volume 3 is featured as a Hot New Release:

I assume ”Most Gifted” is about “gift wrapping” when you order a book

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

Posted in Announcements, Assembly Language, Books, Crash Dump Analysis, Debugging, Publishing | No Comments »

Mystique Back Covers Revealed

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Some practical engineers asked me how do Debugged! MZ/PE magazine back covers look like from a birds eye view:

One engineer even commented that they look better and better (counterclockwise) :-)

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

Posted in Announcements, Art, Books, CDF Analysis Tips and Tricks, Crash Dump Analysis, Crash Dump Patterns, Debugged! MZ/PE, Debugging, Publishing, Software Trace Analysis, Trace Analysis Patterns, WinDbg Tips and Tricks | No Comments »

2 Great Windows Software Engineering Magazines

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

If you know any other please let us know. For example, MSDN is great too, there was also a Visual C++-oriented magazine I used to read in the past. May be it is still in print. I plan to make a wider perspective picture later on. Both pictured magazines (Debugged! MZ/PE and NT Insider) are mainly oriented towards unmanaged and native code respectively (the former with a timeless computer science slant) but Debugged! soon to cover native, virtualized, interpreted and managed code environments too and aims to become a “Complete Debugging Magazine” similar to kernel vs. user process vs. complete memory dump file differences.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

Posted in Announcements, Art, Crash Dump Analysis, Debugged! MZ/PE, Debugging, Education and Research, History, Publishing, Software Engineering | No Comments »

CDA Pattern Frequencies (Part 1)

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

Google Analytics shows the following crash dump analysis pattern frequencies to be fully analyzed later next week:

Page	Pageviews
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2006/10/30/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-1/	8086
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2006/10/31/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-2/	7709
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/07/20/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-17/	6131
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/04/03/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-11/	5000
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/03/13/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-2b/	4651
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/02/09/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-9a/	3881
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/01/24/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-43/	3782
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/06/12/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-59b/	3666
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/12/17/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-41b/	3446
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/08/06/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-20a/	3190
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/11/02/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-13c/	2785
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/02/02/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-8/	2673
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/06/21/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-16a/	2629
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/09/14/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-27/	2461
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2006/11/01/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-3/	2442
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/04/28/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-6a/	2377
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/04/03/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-57/	2376
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/03/18/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-13e/	2279
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/09/11/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-26/	2264
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2006/12/18/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-6/	2257
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/09/10/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-25/	2185
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/10/17/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-31/	2126
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/10/15/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-1b/	1982
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/07/15/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-13b/	1891
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/08/19/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-23a/	1846
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/08/19/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-20b/	1699
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2006/12/15/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-5/	1520
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/12/12/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-41a/	1511
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/07/28/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-9c/	1485
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/11/21/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-37/	1457
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/05/09/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-13a/	1388
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/05/11/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-14/	1366
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/07/03/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-9b/	1336
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/11/05/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-33/	1314
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/04/09/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-58a/	1293
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/11/29/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-9d/	1213
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/06/10/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-16b/	1213
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/07/11/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-71/	1156
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/05/20/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-61/	1131
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/12/19/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-42b/	1063
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/02/27/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-53/	1061
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/01/24/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-7/	1031
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/10/25/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-9e/	1016
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/07/22/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-19/	998
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/11/23/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-39/	979
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/08/25/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-23b/	955
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/02/04/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-13d/	948
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/10/15/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-30/	923
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/10/21/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-77/	905
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2006/11/03/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-4/	889
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/07/20/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-18/	879
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/04/20/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-5b/	870
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/04/20/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-12/	820
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/05/24/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-15/	798
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/11/20/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-31a/	769
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/04/29/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-60/	758
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/02/19/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-51/	714
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/11/22/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-38/	712
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/03/11/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-55/	702
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/12/14/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-42a/	693
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/02/13/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-49/	678
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/04/22/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-59/	676
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2009/01/05/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-13f/	624
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/08/30/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-24/	621
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/02/12/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-48/	619
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/06/24/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-67/	618
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/10/23/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-32/	616
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/02/28/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-54/	611
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/02/22/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-52/	610
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/06/06/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-63/	596
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/08/12/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-21/	576
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/06/25/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-67b/	547
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/12/10/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-40a/	531
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/11/14/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-36/	529
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/07/10/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-19b/	516
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/08/16/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-22/	511
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/10/08/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-29/	506
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/08/07/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-75/	500
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/01/22/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-42c/	496
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/06/20/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-66/	493
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/06/19/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-64/	492
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/03/19/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-10/	450
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2009/04/14/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-6b/	448
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2009/05/15/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-84/	432
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/07/09/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-69/	427
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/09/26/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-28/	426
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/02/15/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-50/	410
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/06/19/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-65/	378
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/11/12/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-35/	371
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/01/25/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-44/	371
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/06/27/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-68/	370
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/08/05/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-74/	369
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/12/17/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-42e/	351
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/07/29/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-73/	345
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2009/06/23/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-85/	340
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/05/28/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-62/	337
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2009/07/10/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-87/	336
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/12/01/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-78a/	330
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/07/10/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-70/	323
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/02/06/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-47/	322
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/03/27/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-56/	317
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/11/06/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-34/	310
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/07/26/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-72/	307
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/01/31/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-46/	299
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/11/07/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-42d/	293
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/10/06/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-76/	288
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/01/30/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-45/	286
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/09/10/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-29b/	270
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2009/02/13/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-80/	250
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2009/03/09/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-82/	246
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2009/02/09/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-79/	231
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/05/07/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-10a/	225
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2009/06/24/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-86/	207
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2009/02/19/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-81/	195
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2009/10/28/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-90/	151
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2009/04/14/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-83/	146
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2009/12/07/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-95/	92
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2009/11/24/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-93/	67
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2009/11/12/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-91/	46
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2009/10/23/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-89/	41
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2009/11/30/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-94a/	39
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2009/11/24/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-92/	36
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2009/10/23/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-88/	35
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2009/11/16/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-65b/	33
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2009/12/30/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-13g/	20

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2009 in Retrospection

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

According to Google Analytics the number of visits / year increased by 34% since 2008 with almost 150,000 unique visitors (20% increase) from 183 countries (180 in 2008) and more than 35% of them are coming back (2% increase). Here are the top 100 network locations out of 27,300 (16% increase):

Network Location	Visits
microsoft corp	9183
comcast cable communications inc.	4651
road runner holdco llc	3601
verizon internet services inc.	3191
japan network information center	2580
hewlett-packard company	2474
internet service provider	2390
deutsche telekom ag	2204
reliance communications ltd	2200
comite gestor da internet no brasil	2134
chunghwa telecom data communication business group	1892
network of citrix systems inc	1716
eircom	1702
nib (national internet backbone)	1455
symantec corporation	1439
charter communications	1253
intel corporation	1253
data general corporation	1235
ip pools	1070
comcast cable communications holdings inc	1040
proxad / free sas	1036
bellsouth.net inc.	1030
comcast cable communications	1030
uunet non-portable customer assignment	984
cox communications	953
korea telecom	891
chinanet guangdong province network	879
unknown	872
abts (karnataka)	853
microsoft dublin internet data center	847
at&t internet services	827
qwest communications corporation	798
xo communications	790
optimum online (cablevision systems)	777
tw telecom holdings inc.	756
shaw communications inc.	691
samtel	674
cox communications inc.	653
ntt communications corporation	648
telstra internet	632
arcor ag	603
chinanet shanghai province network	598
krnic	593
comcast cable communications ip services	588
computer associates international	564
rcs & rds s.a.	538
citrix systems inc.	532
research in motion limited	524
dell computer corporation	522
telefonica de espana	515
psinet inc.	509
easynet ltd	500
comcast business communications inc.	494
symantec inc	491
telus communications inc.	481
cncgroup beijing province network	465
microsoft corporation	456
kla instruments corp.	448
honeywell international inc.	446
cisco systems inc.	444
provider local registry	442
global crossing	414
sympatico hse	408
iinet limited	397
china unicom beijing province network	395
starhub cable vision ltd	392
wipro technologies	384
alice dsl	383
abts delhi	358
appense	351
telecom italia net	347
microsoft	346
nvidia	344
neostrada plus	334
provider	332
abts tamilnadu	325
hanaro telecom inc.	322
level 3 communications inc.	322
1&1 internet ag	319
network of ign arch. and design gb	319
telia network services	316
credit suisse group / cana	308
axa-tech	306
optus internet - retail	306
rogers cable communications inc.	305
telecom italia s.p.a. tin easy lite	304
telekom malaysia berhad	303
chinanet jiangsu province network	297
tiscali uk ltd	284
chtd chunghwa telecom co. ltd.	274
comcast cable communications inc	268
tpg internet pty ltd.	268
datastream ltd	262
dynamic pools	259
sun microsystems inc	258
singnet pte ltd	257
oracle datenbanksysteme gmbh	252
gesti n de direccionamiento uninet	249
embarq corporation	243
nicstech	243

Almost 75,000 Google search keywords (more than 13% increase since 2008) pointed to the portal and this blog with 100 most frequent (some are in Russian):

Keyword	Visits
kifastsystemcallret	2963
crash dump analysis	2742
crash dump	2097
ntdll!kifastsystemcallret	1446
dump analysis	1091
win32 error 0n2	759
windbg	685
windbg cheat sheet	675
windbg commands	619
crash dumps	525
adplus	523
dmitry vostokov	521
memory dump analysis	519
dec 15″” module windbg	511
crashdump	502
memoretics	494
dumpanalysis.org	439
symbol file could not be found	434
warning: frame ip not in any known module. following frames may be wrong.	389
the stored exception information can be accessed via .ecxr.	373
crash dump analyzer	355
memory dump analysis anthology	353
windows 7 crash dump	329
windbg crash dump analysis	326
adplus download	315
error: symbol file could not be found	308
minidump analysis	308
dumpanalysis	289
getcontextstate failed, 0×80070026	287
symbol file could not be found”"	281
bugcheck 3b	280
core dump analysis	278
time travel debugging	276
vista crash dump	272
windbg analyze	263
fnodobfm	258
the stored exception information can be accessed via .ecxr	257
kernel32!pnlsuserinfo	249
bugcheck 7e	243
windbg crash dump	242
frame ip not in any known module	237
dr watson vista	230
windows crash dump analysis	218
windbg script	216
dump analyzer	206
windbg scripts	190
system_service_exception	185
crash dump vista	181
pool corruption	174
minidump	172
error: symbol file could not be found.	168
kernel_mode_exception_not_handled	166
ldrphandleonenewformatimportdescriptor	166
bios disassembly ninjutsu uncovered	165
ntkrnlmp.exe crash dump	164
дамп памяти	162
trap frame	159
windows dump analysis	154
minidump analyzer	153
bugcheck a	152
анализ dump файлов	147
ntdll kifastsystemcallret	146
memuon”"	145
debugging crash dumps	145
kisystemservicecopyend	143
анализ дампа памяти	142
ibmsprem.exe	141
windbg dump	141
download adplus	140
ntdll.dll!kifastsystemcallret	140
analyze crash dump	138
ntdll!dbgbreakpoint	135
rtlpwaitoncriticalsection	133
type referenced: kernel32!pnlsuserinfo	133
dynamicbase aslr	130
dump памяти	129
mdmp file analysis	129
warning: frame ip not in any known module. following frames may be wrong	129
warning: stack unwind information not available. following frames may be wrong.	129
sieextpub	127
ntdll.kifastsystemcallret	126
debug_flr_image_timestamp	125
failure_bucket_id	125
kei386eoihelper	124
memory dump	124
отладчик windbg	124
dump	122
windows debugging: practical foundations	121
rtluserthreadstart	119
windbg book	119
crash dump windows 7	118
978-19067171568	115
windbg dump analysis	115
session_has_valid_views_on_exit (ba)	114
bugcheck 50	113
bugcheck system_service_exception	113
system_thread_exception_not_handled	112
analyzing crash dumps	111
getcontextstate failed, 0xd0000147	110
childebp	107

Special thanks to almost 1,100 web sites (16% increase) that mention the portal and this blog with the first top 100:

Source	Visits
google.com	3090
windbg.dumpanalysis.org	2012
images.google.com	1375
blogs.msdn.com	1130
stackoverflow.com	750
kumo.com	678
dumpanalysis.com	664
dumpanalysis.org	531
winvistaclub.com	441
nynaeve.net	386
jasonhaley.com	385
twitter.com	376
bytetalk.net	351
advancedwindowsdebugging.com	345
en.wikipedia.org	343
gynvael.coldwind.pl	324
msuiche.net	272
blog.flexilis.com	265
bing.com	241
images.google.co.in	222
rsdn.ru	220
images.google.co.uk	214
stumbleupon.com	212
d.hatena.ne.jp	193
blog.naver.com	190
images.google.de	181
blog.not-a-kernel-guy.com	179
social.technet.microsoft.com	179
blog.zoller.lu	175
google.co.kr	169
facebook.com	167
community.citrix.com	165
wasm.ru	163
search.naver.com	161
voneinem-windbg.blogspot.com	160
insidewindows.kr	157
managementbits.com	154
forum.sysinternals.com	153
support.citrix.com	144
reconstructer.org	132
google.co.in	129
debuggingexpert.dumpanalysis.org	128
blogs.microsoft.co.il	125
delicious.com	124
isisaka.com	124
netfxharmonics.com	122
caloni.com.br	112
advdbg.org	111
experts-exchange.com	111
citrixblogger.org	105
google.co.uk	100
serious-code.net	100
shellexecute.wordpress.com	99
bloglines.com	96
mail.google.com	92
debuglab.com	91
images.google.ca	91
blogs.technet.com	89
209.85.129.132	82
google.ca	81
debuggingexperts.dumpanalysis.org	80
fruitfoxlu.blogspot.com	78
74.125.95.132	75
codeproject.com	75
clausbrod.de	70
groups.google.com	70
literatescientist.com	66
images.google.ru	65
images.google.fr	64
saygoodnight.com	61
belowgotham.com	60
bishop-it.ru	59
google.es	59
209.85.173.132	58
driveronline.org	58
images.google.com.au	58
forensicanalysis.org	57
images.google.com.br	57
images.google.com.ua	57
images.google.it	57
social.msdn.microsoft.com	57
google.de	56
images.google.co.id	56
images.google.pl	56
the-interweb.com	56
evilcodecave.wordpress.com	54
codemachine.com	52
blog.gamedeff.com	51
rfvicente.spaces.live.com	51
209.85.229.132	50
images.google.nl	50
my.live.com	50
notes.theorbis.net	50
advanceddotnetdebugging.com	49
softwareastrology.com	49
google.hu	48
thinkdigit.com	47
cps-symbols.qalabs.symantec.com	46
dogpile.com	46

Top 25 visiting countries:

Country/Territory	Visits
United States	77312
India	16091
United Kingdom	15892
Germany	9336
Russia	9202
China	7948
Canada	7382
Japan	6001
France	4847
South Korea	4748
Australia	4329
Taiwan	4076
Ireland	3735
Singapore	3598
Netherlands	3073
Israel	2933
Ukraine	2918
Italy	2905
Spain	2821
Sweden	2548
Brazil	2309
Poland	2134
Romania	1848
Czech Republic	1551
Belgium	1454

More than 10,000 portal and blog pages were viewed a total of almost 450,000 times with top 100 content pages:

Page	Pageviews
/	41591
/blog/	40481
/blog/index.php/2008/01/10/what-is-kifastsystemcallret/	7226
/Crash+Dump+Analysis+for+System+Administrators	6229
/WinDbg+reference	4561
/blog/index.php/2006/10/30/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-1/	4538
/blog/index.php/category/windbg-tips-and-tricks/	4197
/blog/index.php/2007/06/20/crash-dump-analysis-checklist/	4175
/ru/blog/	4144
/blog/index.php/2006/10/31/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-2/	3941
/blog/index.php/2007/05/19/resurrecting-dr-watson-on-vista/	3475
/Forthcoming+Windows+Debugging%3A+Practical+Foundations	3298
/blog/index.php/2007/07/20/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-17/	3282
/Memory+Dump+Analysis+Anthology+Volume+1	3109
/blog/index.php/2008/03/12/bug-check-frequencies/	2994
/Tools	2981
/blog/index.php/2007/09/06/minidump-analysis-part-2/	2960
/blog/index.php/category/windbg-scripts/	2706
/blog/index.php/2008/05/09/windbg-cheat-sheet-for-crash-dump-analysis/	2679
/Debugged+Magazine	2631
/blog/index.php/2008/09/12/adplus-in-21-seconds-and-13-steps/	2630
/blog/index.php/2007/04/03/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-11/	2521
/blog/index.php/category/bugchecks-depicted/page/2/	2496
/blog/index.php/about/	2491
/blog/index.php/2008/03/13/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-2b/	2487
/blog/index.php/category/minidump-analysis/	2259
/blog/index.php/2007/12/17/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-41b/	2154
/blog/index.php/2008/06/12/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-59b/	2153
/blog/index.php/basic-windows-crash-dump-analysis/	2060
/Forthcoming+Memory+Dump+Analysis+Anthology+Volume+2	2029
/blog/index.php/2007/02/09/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-9a/	2014
/Library	1994
/blog/index.php/2008/01/24/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-43/	1969
/blog/index.php/2007/09/17/resolving-symbol-file-could-not-be-found/	1954
/blog/index.php/crash-dump-analysis-patterns/	1947
/blog/index.php/2007/10/01/windows-service-crash-dumps-on-vista/	1910
/blog/index.php/2007/08/29/minidump-analysis-part-1/	1839
/blog/index.php/2007/08/06/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-20a/	1838
/blog/index.php/2007/07/15/interrupts-and-exceptions-explained-part-4/	1766
/blog/index.php/2007/10/11/minidump-analysis-part-4/	1730
/ru/blog/index.php/category/komandy-otladchika-windbg/	1650
/Links	1566
/blog/index.php/category/dump-analysis/	1566
/blog/index.php/2008/10/15/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-1b/	1537
/blog/index.php/category/vista/	1528
/blog/index.php/category/windows-7/	1520
/blog/index.php/2007/08/04/visualizing-memory-dumps/	1517
/blog/index.php/2006/12/09/clipboard-issues-explained/	1510
/blog/index.php/2007/02/02/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-8/	1499
/blog/index.php/2008/04/22/bugchecks-system_service_exception/	1468
/blog/index.php/category/windows-server-2008/	1467
/blog/index.php/2007/05/20/custom-postmortem-debuggers-on-vista/	1397
/blog/index.php/2007/06/21/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-16a/	1353
/blog/index.php/2008/04/03/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-57/	1351
/blog/index.php/2007/11/02/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-13c/	1320
/arts-photography-links	1317
/blog/index.php/dumps-for-dummies/	1316
/blog/index.php/2008/04/28/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-6a/	1296
/blog/index.php/2007/03/03/windbg-tips-and-tricks-hypertext-commands/	1288
/blog/index.php/2007/09/14/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-27/	1274
/dll+art+book	1260
/blog/index.php/2007/09/11/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-26/	1240
/blog/index.php/2007/10/17/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-31/	1210
/blog/index.php/2006/11/01/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-3/	1192
/blog/index.php/2007/03/04/windbg-tips-and-tricks-analyzing-hangs-faster/	1167
/arts-photography	1156
/blog/index.php/2006/12/18/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-6/	1155
/Dumps%2C+Bugs+and+Debugging+Forensics	1143
/node?page=1	1139
/blog/index.php/2006/10/09/dumps-for-dummies-part-1/	1118
/blog/index.php/2008/03/18/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-13e/	1084
/blog/index.php/foundations-of-debugging-x86/	1084
/blog/index.php/2007/04/25/bugchecks-system_thread_exception_not_handled/	1072
/blog/index.php/category/gdb-for-windbg-users/	1054
/blog/index.php/2007/09/10/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-25/	1046
/blog/index.php/2007/06/21/repair-clipboard-chain-201/	1045
/blog/index.php/automated-analysis/	1015
/blog/index.php/crash-dump-examples/	987
/blog/index.php/2007/07/15/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-13b/	961
/blog/index.php/2006/10/25/dumps-for-dummies-part-3/	960
/blog/index.php/2007/08/19/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-23a/	937
/blog/index.php/2007/09/	925
/blog/index.php/2007/07/01/gdb-for-windbg-users-part-5/	908
/blog/index.php/2006/10/14/dumps-for-dummies-part-2/	907
/Forthcoming+Windows+Debugging+Notebook	888
/blog/index.php/memory-dump-analysis-interview-questions/	886
/blog/index.php/2007/05/19/inside-vista-error-reporting-part-1/	884
/blog/index.php/2007/08/07/basic-windows-crash-dump-analysis-part-1/	879
/blog/index.php/2006/11/19/dumps-for-dummies-part-4/	873
/blog/index.php/2007/08/19/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-20b/	871
/aggregator	856
/blog/index.php/page/2/	834
/blog/index.php/2008/06/26/heuristic-stack-trace-in-windbg-693113/	833
/blog/index.php/2008/10/25/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-9e/	817
/blog/index.php/2009/04/01/new-memory-dump-type-in-windows-7/	815
/blog/index.php/2006/12/06/new-testdefaultdebugger-tool/	804
/x64+Windows+Debugging%3A+Practical+Foundations	789
/blog/index.php/2007/04/28/interrupts-and-exceptions-explained-part-1/	775
/blog/index.php/2007/07/28/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-9c/	771
/BabyTuringBook	764