Bugtation No.126
Monday, October 4th, 2010Yet another variation on Bugtation No.98 theme:
I am because we memory dump and because we memory dump therefore I am.
African proverb
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Archive for the ‘Bugtations’ Category
Bugtation No.125
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010Who’s your BOSS (Basic Operating Support System)?
I report to Memory……………………………………………………….
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Bugtation No.124
Monday, August 16th, 2010Madness, the absence of memory dumps.
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Bugtation No.123
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010The whole code is a series of balanced defects. Fix one and the program crashes.
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Bugtation No.122
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010Crash Dump is a double buzzword.
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Bugtation No.121
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
assert (*p + *p == 2 * (*p) + 1); // for sufficiently fast processorsThe reinterpretation of 1 + 1 = 3, Dmitry Vostokov
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The Curious Incident of the Tsar in the Day-Time
Sunday, July 4th, 2010The title of this blog post is a bugtated Sherlock Holmes phrase “… the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” from Silver Blaze short story. To see why please watch a video at the end of this post.
Last week I was in St. Petersburg where I visited a bookshop Singer House
and bought “A Grammar of the Coptic Language” book (in Russian) to practice with ancient memory dumps:
Before that I was circling on an 18th-century coach (seems to be a model if we look at its door handle):
After the riding I was looking around and spotted the Tsar (click on a picture to watch the movie):
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Old Mental Dumps from June 22nd
Tuesday, June 22nd, 20102009:
There were several posts on that prolific day but only 2 are worth to repeat here
• Succession of Patterns (Part 1) - More work needs to be done here. I recently revived this theme by writing the next post: Succession of Patterns (Part 2)
2008:
No dumps on that day
2007:
No dumps on that day
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Bugtation No.120
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010… science is in reality a classification and analysis of the contents of the memory;
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Bugtation No.119
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010Do you see my thread of thought? Tender ≈ easily crushed, so a tender button can easily crash or can be easily cr(a)ushed. When I saw the title of a book “Tender Buttons” I immediately recalled TestDefaultDebugger and similar programs. Apartment is from COM lexicon.
Tender buttons that crash: objects, messages, apartments.
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Bugtation No.118
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010The clash of titans over the bit of memory.
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Bugtation No.117
Thursday, March 18th, 2010Thinking again about prescriptive value-added debugging and the sin of requesting yet another memory dump from a customer for the sake of curiosity (the so called “further analysis”):
Dump analysis matters, but business results matter more.
Aaron Erickson, The Nomadic Developer
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Bugtation No.116
Friday, March 12th, 2010When the performance is a performative and the performative is a performance we think about performability:
A virtualization is virtualization.
Peter Brook, The Empty Space
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Bugtations as Patched Quotations (Bugtation No.115)
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
While reading Software Studies: A Lexicon (Leonardo Books) 
“The highest perfection of society is found in the union of order and anarchy.” ->
-> “The highest perfection of software is found in the union of order and anarchy.”
Therefore, a bugtation as paradigmatic substitution can be seen as specialised topical patching. It is also augmented with topical coloring:
“The highest perfection of” debugging “is found in the union of order and anarchy.”
Double patching now?
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Bugtation No.114
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010Reinterpreting Mr. Sherlock Holmes’ words (as heard by Dr. Watson) in this zero-paradigmatic (no word substitution) semantic suffixal bugtation:
“Stop, driver, stop!” Did he forget a stop code?
Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet, Part 1, 3: The Lauriston Gardens Mystery
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Bugtation No.113
Friday, February 12th, 2010Memory interpretation of the last words of Socrates:
“Crito, I own a” handle “to Æsculapius. Will you remember to” close it?
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Bugtation No.112
Friday, February 5th, 2010Debugging “with a purpose.”
Unknown Debugger
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Bugtation No.111
Sunday, January 31st, 2010Software “bugs have been around for” decades.
A bugtated quotation from one website dedicated to bed bugs
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Bugtation No.110
Sunday, January 31st, 2010Debugging at large. Remember those bugs from The Day Earth Stood Still movie that were nicely deactivated at once? Remember Nobel Laureate Professor Barnhardt was threading with Klaatu over the correct version of General Relativity on a blackboard and then at once realized that he was talking to an alien? His next phrase was the one that I repeat every day (and I also listen to Bach every day):
“I have so many questions to ask” this memory dump.
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Bugtation No.109
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Symmetrical bugtation:
Delusion of “difference and repetition” in debugging.
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