Software Diagnostics Library

Memory Analysis Patterns (MAPs) including memory dump, malware, software trace (TAPs), and other patterns and pattern catalogs from Software Diagnostics Institute form the very rich semantic network. Now it is possible (by using a metaphorical bijection) to create a catalog of General Patterns of Abnormal Structure and Behaviour including software, hardware, biological behavior including animal (ethology) and human behavior, sociological and historical behavior including economics, business and finance, ethics and law, and even behavior of chemical and physical systems. Such “GAPs of Structure and Behavior” may include wait chains, spikes, deadlocks, etc. We provide more specific examples in the forthcoming parts. So we are a few steps closer to realization of my old dangerous idea of a parameterized science of universal memory dumps by the so called science files or might event a general diagnostics discipline.

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

Before deciding on whether to retrospect on 2012 we found that since March 14, 2008 this site has had more than 1 million visitors with more than 33% returning. So instead of just 2012 we decided to retrospect on that interval up to December 31, 2012. Google Analytics has improved since last January, 2012 and now made our task easier. So we start with the first one hundred sites referring to us:

Next table is distribution of visits among countries:

Then the first 100 network locations:

Then the first 100 search keywords and phrases that led to us:

Then browser stats (we have never thought that there are so many of them):

Browser	Visits
Internet Explorer	446051
Firefox	356686
Chrome	184535
Opera	45787
Safari	24123
Mozilla	3780
Mozilla Compatible Agent	2401
Android Browser	1337
Konqueror	1057
IE with Chrome Frame	982
Opera Mini	705
SeaMonkey	503
Safari (in-app)	197
Lunascape	144
BlackBerry8900	128
Camino	126
RockMelt	124
(not set)	96
Netscape	72
Playstation 3	36
IUC	34
Googlebot	29
Lynx	24
Unsupported Browser Version	22
BlackBerry9630	21
NetFront	17
BlackBerry9700	15
Microsoft-Symbol-Server	14
BlackBerry9000	12
Galeon	11
Midori	9
NokiaE63	9
Yahoo! Slurp	9
BlackBerry8530	8
BlackBerry8520	7
PagePeeker.com	7
SAMSUNG-SGH-I617	7
BlackBerry9530	6
JUC	6
MSR-ISRCCrawler	6
OpenWave	6
anonimo	5
BlackBerry9300	5
HTC_HD2_T8585 Opera	5
Nokia5233	5
Space Bison	5
-Vasya	4
Blazer	4
Uzbl	4
-^_^- Hello	3
<?echo ‘<pre>’; system	3
12345	3
BlackBerry9330	3
BlackBerry9650	3
HTC_P3700 Opera	3
HTC_TyTN_II Mozilla	3
NOKIAN78	3
Playstation Portable	3
PPC; 240×320; HTC_P3450	3
undefined GoogleToolbarBB	3
anonymous	2
Empty	2
GreatBrowse	2
Helyi user agent	2
HTC_Touch_Pro2_T7373 Opera	2
HTC_Touch2_T3333 Opera	2
J2ME	2
Mozilla 5.0	2
NokiaC1-01	2
NokiaC3-00	2
NokiaC7-00	2
NokiaX2-01	2
nwzfq	2
test	2
—	1
?M5	1
“PagePeeker.com”	1
<?include	1
<script>alert	1
<SCRIPT>window.location=’http:	1
2.0.0.11	1
31337′	1
8900b	1
AltaVista Intranet V2.0 evreka.com crawler@evreka.com	1
annoying	1
AppEngine-Google;	1
BlackBerry9500	1
BlackBerry9550	1
bwh3_user_agent	1
Citrix	1
EBABrowser	1
EY	1
fake_user_agent Mozilla	1
FAST Enterprise Crawler 6 used by Reed Exhibitions	1
foo	1
General Browser	1
GOOGLEBOT	1
HD_mini_T5555 Opera	1
Hellbrowser 6.66	1
holy_teacher FirePHP	1
HTC_P3490 Opera	1
HTC_P4550 Mozilla	1
HTC_Polaris Mozilla	1
HTC_Touch_3G_T3232 Opera	1
HTC_Touch_HD_T8282 Opera	1
HTC_Touch_Pro_T7272 Opera	1
HTC_Touch2_T3320 Opera	1
HTC-8900	1
IE 8	1
IE6	1
iTunes	1
Keep Out	1
KraftwayBrowser2	1
Links	1
Maemo Browser	1
Medusa	1
MERONG	1
Motorola_ES405B	1
mozilla	1
Mozilla Firefox	1
MS-OC 4.0	1
msie	1
NCSA Mosaic	1
NightDynamo AdminPanel v0.2.1	1
Nokia2700c-2	1
Nokia2730c-1	1
Nokia305	1
Nokia5230	1
Nokia5310XpressMusic	1
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Nokia6300	1
Nokia6700c-1	1
NokiaC2-01	1
NokiaC2-02	1
NokiaC2-03	1
NokiaC5-03	1
nokiac6-00	1
NokiaC6-00	1
NOKIAE65	1
NokiaE66	1
NokiaE71	1
NokiaE71-2;Mozilla	1
NokiaE72-1	1
NokiaN-GageQD	1
NokiaN70-1	1
NokiaNokia 6210s	1
NoneOfYourBusiness	1
nothisname_wangxiaoyang3	1
OmniWeb	1
Palm750	1
Peeplo Screenshot Bot	1
PerTrUsTsQuiD	1
pippos.7	1
PPC; 480×800; HTC_Touch_HD_T8282; OpVer 34.159.1.612	1
PriceGoblin User Agent	1
Private	1
Privoxy	1
Read Later	1
SAMSUNG-GT-E2222	1
samsung-gt-s3653	1
samsung-gt-s3653 UNTRUSTED	1
SAMSUNG-S8000	1
SAMSUNG-SGH-I637	1
Samsung-SPHM540 Polaris	1
SmallProxy 3.5.4	1
SonyEricssonK750	1
Surf	1
tdhbrowser	1
TiFiC Client Z	1
union update table sd_users set userid=9 where username=’coco	1
unknown	1
Unknown	1
UNTRUSTED	1
Updownerbot	1
WIN	1
WinXP SP2	1
Wlwap	1
WM5 PIE	1
Xda_orbit_2; 240×320	1
Xyi znat kakoi browser MRA 5.7	1
ZooShot 0.1a	1
ZooShot 0.42	1

and finally mobile devices stats (you may find your own device there):

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Here are some achievements I’d like to highlight for 2012 (The Year of Software Trace Analysis):

• The birth of Software Diagnostics as a discipline
• Pattern-driven software diagnostics comes to Mac OS X
• Pattern-driven software trace and log analysis acquires a reference training course
• Software Narratology gets an introduction
• Victimware is introduced

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

This is the title of a novella to be published in Spring 2013 (ISBN: 978-1908043412). Book description:

Russia, 1908, June 30, 7:14 a.m., the court of Tsar Nicholas II is wiped out by an impact, an enormous explosion over St. Petersburg. In an ensuring chaos State Duma takes power over Imperial Russia changing the course of World history forever. Russia, 2017, an alternative history novella is published about the Tunguska event that missed the capital of Russia…

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It is hard to write a review of this book because I have been reading it sporadically for more than 2 years and just finished today. When I bought it I didn’t know much about Christianity and it various branches (as being educated in secular Soviet Union) so it was difficult reading due to many historical and theological facts. Now I plan to watch DVD series from the same author and already started reading multi-volume sets such as History of the Christian Church (Schaff, Protestant perspective), Studies in Church History (Parsons, Catholic perspective) and waiting for arrival of 9 volumes of Cambridge History of Christianity bought with a great discount from Folio Society.

Just a small note that the last chapters were brief but very enlightening, for example, last pages about the disappearing of Hell and the appearing of burning (cremation).

Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

PS. Actually learning about Christian faith helped me to deeply understand my own Memory Religion (Memorianity) with its conception of original memory defect: Memory Religion: A Core Testament of Memorianity (with an old original cover below)

- Dmitry Vostokov @ LiterateScientist.com -

There are many lists for great books but I’d like to share the one that have a more personal touch. These books I wanted to read on the first sight and devoured them when I had an occasion.

First book that made a great impression on me was C Programming Language which I saw and read in 1987 (in Russian translation with very nice hardcover binding). There was a C implementation available on a PDP-11 clone I worked with at that time.

Another book that reinforced my better function prototype reading and pointer declarations was Expert C Programming.

I confess I had a long trouble understanding C++ long back ago despite reading The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup (reading several editions) and Effective C++ series by Scott Meyers partly because of my long practice of Win32 programming using C and partly because I didn’t understand why I needed C++ to do the same. Popular books such as C++ for Real Programmers (in Russian translation) terrified me with their complexity (although I made honest efforts to read them from cover to cover). However, when I saw and started reading the book Advanced CORBA Programming with C++ I really understood why we needed C++ and how it all worked.

After that rereading The C++ Programming Language and (More) Effective C++ books was a great pleasure.

The other part of C++, STL was greatly clarified by reading the following book in 2003 from cover to cover (at that time the first edition): The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference.

Inside the C++ Object Model book clarified C++ implementation issues and helped later with crash dump analysis of C++ programs.

I plan to continue this “Great Impression” series with other topics and also to publish a recommended reading list for C++ based on books from my personal library that started growing when I was an employee at Programming Research in 2001 - 2003:

The row of books is all about C++. Except the big thick red book about English language grammar (as I became interested in other grammars than C++) The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language:

Now !ad debugger command: I’m developing a traning course Deep Down C++ with Memory Dump Analysis.

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

Software narratological approach can be useful for writing, analyzing and validating historical narratives. Trace and event log messages play the role of historical events where process ids are assigned to particular historical institutions and their representatives. Threads serve the role of historical entities like persons. Modules play the role of shared ideologies. We already use this approach for writing history books.

This can also work on a different level such as analyzing a history of debugging as a sequence of troubleshooting and debugging stories. More on this later as I plan to provide concrete examples from history. For the time being please read how software narratology and memoretics (the study of memory snapshots) help fiction writers as well.

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Here’s what we see from our Google Analytics stats. Top 5 browsers in 2011 used to access our portal and blog:

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Here’s what we see from our Google Analytics stats. Top 25 mobile devices in 2011 used to access our portal and blog:

Top 10 mobile operating systems:

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According to Google Analytics the number of visits / year increased by 4% since 2010 with almost 160,000 unique visitors (2% increase) from 180 countries and 34% of them are coming back. 2,725 visits were via 12 mobile operating systems (106% increase). Here are the top 100 network locations out of 28,932:

Top 25 visiting countries:

More than 8,000 portal and blog pages were viewed a total of more than 392,000 times with top 100 content pages: