Archive for the ‘Bugtations’ Category
Sunday, December 14th, 2008
Crash “must be distinguished from” hang “with which it is often confounded.”
Sydney Smith, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith by his daughter, Lady Holland, with a Selection from his Letters
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
“It is better to offer no” fix “than a” wrong “one.”
George Washington, Letter to Harriet Washington
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
“To achieve great” fixes “we must” debug “as though we were never going to” stop.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, Reflexions and Maximes
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
I found the book How to Avoid Huge Ships: And Other Implausibly Titled Books
in a local bookshop yesterday and couldn’t stop laughing. So I took some implausible titles and bugtated them into implausible debugging book titles:
- - Old Bugs and the Men Who Debug Them
- - How to Avoid Crashes and Hangs or I’ve Never Met a Bug I Liked
- - Blue Screen: What’s in it for You?
- - What to Say When You Debug: Powerful New Techniques to Program your Success!
- - Redmond: The View from Greenland
- - Fabulous Small Bugs
- - Better Never to Have Coded: The Harm of Coding
- - Code for Impact
- - Whose Bug? The Clash between Software Vendors
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
A pointer “tends to corrupt, and” a direct pointer “corrupts” directly.
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Lord Acton’s dictum
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
I’m pleased to announce that OpenTask has submitted the book Dumps, Bugs and Debugging Forensics: The Adventures of Dr. Debugalov for printing and here is the link to TOC:
Table of Contents
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Easy to remember 67th bugtation: 6 days and 7 nights and especially
“Seven” debugging “nights.”
The interpretation of 0×7D9 (2009), The Year of Debugging

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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
“The” computer “is the only place where” a crash “comes before” hang.
Anonymous American Saying
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
“… the” debugger “(my almighty” application ”) …”
Thomas Jefferson, TO JAMES MONROE, Paris Mar. 18. 1785
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
“Avoid” crashes and hangs, “but do not seek” total stability “- nothing so expensive as” total stability.
Sydney Smith, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith by his daughter, Lady Holland, with a Selection from his Letters
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
“How can you say my” computation “is not a success?” Has it “not for more than sixty” days “got enough to” process “and escaped being” crashed?
Logan Pearsall Smith, Last Words
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
“To” debug “is to” code “twice.”
Joseph Joubert, Pensées
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
“Impatient” engineers “always” debug “too late.”
Jean Gwenaël Dutourd, Le Fond et la Forme, essai alphabétique sur la morale et sur le style
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
This is an example of an almost totally bugtated quotation:
Blue Color “of” Crash.
Ernest Lehman, Sweet Smell of Success
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
“One of the pleasures of reading old” memory dumps “is the knowledge that they need no answer.”
George Gordon Byron
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
“Nothing would be more tiresome than” coding “and” debugging “if” evolution “had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.”
Voltaire, Dialogues philosophiques
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Computation “is a succession of” steps. “To” compute “each one is to succeed.”
Corita Kent
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
This is an example of a complex bugtation:
Bugteriology is the study of bugteria. “It comprises the identification, classification and characterization of” bugterial “species.” Bugteria “are identified by their properties, for example their looks, what” memory dumps “they can” appear in “or not” appear in, “what” bugs “they require for growth, what” effects “they produce, etc. To study morphology, that is the” phenotype “of” bugteria, “a” debugger “is used.”
Virtual Museum of Bacteria, Bacteriology: the study of bacteria
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