Treat yourself, your family and friends with this selection of gifts from OpenTask store:
The perfect binary gift for your family and friends
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I was looking for Wordpress plugins to display past year (two-, three-, etc.) old posts and after a few tries decided to create such posts manually to add fresh perspective and new comments on them (in italics). Today we start with June 21st.
2009:
• Debugalov has been burnt! - The book still sells every month and I’m now thinking about a hardcover gift edition. The cover fascinates many people, see for example this review: Book Review - The Adventures of Dr Debugalov. Now we also have Dr. DebugLove. Who is a good and who is a bad guy? Or is it a personality split?
2008:
No dumps on that day
2007:
Looks like the very prolific day. There were 3 blog posts:
• Crash Dump Analysis Patterns (Part 16a) - Stack overflow in kernel. Generated some comments and can also be seen in the following pattern case study: Lateral damage, stack overflow and execution residue
• Repair Clipboard Chain 2.0.1 - One of the most popular Citrix tool in the past
• Guessing stack trace - This old command still works for x86 WinDbg and x86 memory dumps
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Following the news about Dr. Debugalov, Giordano Bruno1 of Debugging, his creator, Narasimha Vedala, depicted the event at once:
This event was also filmed by Narasimha Vedala:
1. Giordano Bruno wrote extensive works on the art of memory and Dr. Debugalov is famous for his memory analysis techniques.
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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:
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“Diamonds are forever but bugs are an error.”
Narasimha Vedala, Dumps, Bugs and Debugging Forensics: The Adventures of Dr. Debugalov
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Finally Dr. Debugalov adventures are going to be imprinted with bugs inside. This full-color book features never published before cartoons and a few surprises. It sets a new standard for entertainment in software engineering.
The cover was designed by Narasimha Vedala.
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New cartoon from Narasimha Vedala (click on it to enlarge):
Revolution and carnage imminent at Dr. Debugalov’s bug farm…
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New cartoon and a word “bugxorcist” from Narasimha Vedala (click on it to enlarge):
Bugs At The Gate
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New cartoon from Narasimha Vedala (click on it to enlarge):
Bugs Trying To Bell The Cat…
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New cartoon from Narasimha Vedala provides insight into Dr. Debugalov’s embedded programming hobby:
Dr. Debugalov tests his new invention “BugSlasher” the fuzzy logic bug hunting robot.
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Album cover and songs list from Narasimha Vedala:
DUMPSTATIC
Dr. Debugalov Feat.
Assembly Crooks and
E.I.P. Wailers.
1. Mistah Dumpstatic Feat. E.I.P Wailers.
2. Attached to your pros-ass.
3. I put a dump on you.
4. Be my debugger.
5. When push comes to shove, call Debugalov.
6. Pop ECX Feat. Assembly Crooks.
7. You corrupted my memory Feat. E.I.P Wailers.
8. Dark side of the dump.
9. Sweet Dump o’mine.
10. Optimize your soul.
11. Load address blues Feat. Assembly Crooks.
12. Good bye, Kernel.
Some music for this album will be written with the help of Dump2Wave technology 
Stay statically tuned to further announcements.
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New cartoon from Narasimha Vedala provides insight on string reversing (click on it to enlarge):
At the Bug Concentration Camp [BCC]
CCB officer decides the fate
I was curious to check if there are any opcodes like BCC or CCB and there are indeed:
BCC - Branch on Carry Clear
CCB - Chip Configuration Byte
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New cartoon from Narasimha Vedala:
Mother bug explains Morris worm
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New cartoon from Narasimha Vedala (click on it to enlarge):
Misty morning gossip in the park
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New cartoon from Narasimha Vedala provides insight into crazy bugs (click on it to enlarge):
A visit to the Psychiatrist
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New cartoon from Narasimha Vedala provides insight into the beauty of nature (click on it to enlarge):
Nature’s Wonder: Life cycle of a beetle
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New cartoon from Narasimha Vedala captures recent rumors about the opening of Olympics:
Just to remind you that China is 6th on my Memory Dump Awareness Index.
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New cartoon from Narasimha Vedala provides insight into the new ideology (click on it to enlarge):
Dawn of Debugism
Here I repeat 10 debugging commandments in scripture:
1. Thou shalt not underestimate bugs
2. Thou shalt walk the stack with thy colleagues
3. Thou shalt strive not to corrupt thine memory heap
4. Thou shalt share thine debugging knowledge
5. Thou shalt not overflow the buffer
6. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s dump
7. Thou shalt not reverse engineer for profit
8. Thou shalt not attach debugger to thy neighbor’s wife
9. Thou shalt not commit adultery with bugs
10. Thou shalt not shalt thou to me
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New cartoon from Narasimha Vedala based on Dr. Page idea (click on it to enlarge):
Unconventional Debugging: introduce a hot lady bug
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