Archive for the ‘Bugtations’ Category
Sunday, December 20th, 2009
“Memory dumps are facts.”
I’m very excited to announce that Volume 3 is available in paperback, hardcover and digital editions:
Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 3
Table of Contents
In two weeks paperback edition should also appear on Amazon and other bookstores. Amazon hardcover edition is planned to be available in January 2010.
The amount of information was so voluminous that I had to split the originally planned volume into two. Volume 4 should appear by the middle of February together with Color Supplement for Volumes 1-4.
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Completely mutated Richard Dawkins‘ quotation after listening to his latest book “The Greatest Show on Earth” and reading Fern Elsdon-Baker’s book “The Selfish Genius”:
“Memory dumps are facts”.
Dmitry Vostokov’s statement upon hearing “Evolution is a fact.”
No offence to Dawkins’ camp, watch out the publication of the next issue of Debugged! magazine about systematics and evolution of software defects:
Darwinian Debugging
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
In its simplest form the first law of troubleshooting and debugging states that:
The more frequent a problem is, the simpler tool is needed to resolve and fix it.
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Posted in Announcements, Bugtations, DebugWare Patterns, Debugging, Laws of Troubleshooting and Debugging, Software Technical Support, Tools, Troubleshooting Methodology | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
“Simplifying computing with a” crash.
Dmitry Vostokov’s excavative exclamation upon hearing a marketing slogan “I have a crush on you”
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
Computation “is a brief gasp between one” crash dump “and another.”
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, Subbugtated from Poetry: The Basics (Chapter 3), Jeffrey Wainwright
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
“A little” debugging “is a dangerous thing;” Debug “deep, or” …
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
While reading memory snapshots (dumps) from Clive James during lunch I came across this:
“… beauty” in debugging “begins as consolation for what can’t be” debugged.
Clive James, Cultural Amnesia
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
“You” run code “from beginning to end. You” debug code “the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach” the beginning.
Harold Sydney Geneen
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
I don’t read mere books. I analyze memory dumps. Books are memory dumps. Memory dumps are books.
Dmitry Vostokov, Variation on a theme “A book is a memory dump”
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Posted in Books, Bugtations, Fun with Crash Dumps, Memory Religion (Memorianity), Philosophy | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Dao De Jing bugging
Bang the Debugger, explains his extraordinary skill in debugging:
“The Thread is the Way, the flow I follow. When I started I could only use !analyze -v command. After 4 years I could see through memory bits without lenses of a debugger program because Dao is beyond computer understanding and more than technical skills.”
Based on the famous story from Ding the Butcher.
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Monday, August 31st, 2009
Most bugs are permanent.
Dmitry Vostokov, Variation on a theme “Most objects are temporary”
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
The road to immortality is paved with memory dumps.
Dmitry Vostokov
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
To be is to crash and to be crashed.
Dmitry Vostokov
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
“The real” debugging “begins only after hitting” a button.
Anonymous
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Whom to blame if a process or a system crashes or freezes?
“Mr. Quinn: It is very dangerous to ignore political dumps these days. Mr. Dempsey: All dumps are political.”
Source
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
“A trace is a narrative, the story of a computation.”
Dmitry Vostokov, Software Tracing and Logging: Architecture, Design, Implementation and Analysis Patterns
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
Instead of publishing another philosophical treatise ”On …”, OpenTask, iterative and incremental publisher, plans to release my collection of bugtations in somewhat extended version by the end of this summer:
On Debugging: Bugtations and Other Humorous Quotations (ISBN: 978-1906717285)
The book also includes short biographical notes, commentaries and relevant explanations. Hope you would enjoy it.
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
Universal memory dumps come from astronomical observations:
Dumps “are meaningless without” symbols “to interpret them.”
Raymond Arthur Lyttleton, Quoted in Astroparticle Physics, page 50
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