Software Diagnostics Library

A new book is planned by OpenTask with the following preliminary details:

State and Event: Categorical Foundations of Being and Time (ISBN: 978-1906717643)

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A contribution to Software Resistentialism:

Software objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don’t work, those that crash and those that hang.

Russell Wayne Baker

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Named after Georg Cantor CAN.TOR.OS^∞ brings computation from the distant future into today. The transfinite worldview and universe of tomorrow into the finite worldview and universe of today. Cantor OS drives transfinite computing and saves transfinite memory dumps. More on this in subsequent parts as I have to come back to finite memory dumps… One cautious note though: transfinite doesn’t mean absolute infinity, or God-like computation, the latter is the realm of Memory Religion. 

^(∞) TOR is a new transfinite operation in addition to finite OR, AND or XOR 

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These dumps are larger than any finite memory dump and contain all of them inside (see the definition of a transfinite number). Think about them as a variant of the Library of Babel where all possible memory snapshots of your Windows or Linux PC are stored including Googol dumps. If you have some code then all possible code defects are there too. An interesting question then arises. If this dump is collected what kind of patterns we can see there? Are these patterns extrapolated infinite versions of finite patterns or there come new ones specific to transfinite computations? More on this in the next parts.

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What is the source of our intuition about ∞, or ∞^∞, more powers of ∞, and even ∞ number of powers? I believe that the underlying structure of our Universe or at least a universe as a model of Universe, Infinite Memory, with perceived processes as limits and Time Arrow as a bundle of sequences of memory pointers, provides basis for our intuition about infinite.

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What if you are given a universal memory dump and want to find some intelligence artifacts in it? I think the problem is similar to searching for software artifacts in a computer memory dump out of quadrimemorillion of them in the absence of symbol files and suitable memory dump reader. Perhaps memory visualization techniques provide a direction to solving extraterrestrial problems too. This SETI association probably came to my mind when one of the readers of my memory religion post recalled his job application to SETI institute.

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Applying  a mathematical definition of a memory dump to natural systems we can introduce:

Universal Memory Dump

    - a snapshot of observables describing the system.

Similar to software memory dump analysis we need a suitable reader and a set of:

Universal Symbol Files

    - semantical mappings or NDB (Nature Data Base) files.

Therefore we have these two categories of universal memory dumps:

• - Natural Memory Dumps
• - Software Memory Dumps 

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Not exactly about bugs:

“It is a terrible thing for” an engineer “to find out suddenly that all his life he has been” writing “nothing but the” code.

Oscar Wilde,
The Importance of Being Earnest

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While questioning current morally acceptable practices in relation to software I finally understood why I instinctively had never liked live debugging and preferred crash dump analysis instead. Because careless debugging with its destructive techniques was against my unconscious software ethical beliefs.

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It had always been my dream since I left Moscow State University to be associated with a research institute. Until yesterday it became a reality with the announcement of

Memory Analysis & Debugging Institute (MA_&D^I).

From: http://www.dumpanalysis.org/madinstitute-announcement

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Every day a new religion appears on Earth and now my turn to announce Memory Religion with several tentative names:

Memorianism
Memorianity
Memoriandom

One of the attractive features of this religion is eternal immortality through memory of our universe. The current understanding of that employs memoidealistic notion of memuonic memory that comprises the philosophy of memoidealism.

I made a leap of faith yesterday and now consider myself as a true believer! Hope other people will follow soon. As every major religion it also has its testament book to be published:

Title: Memory Religion: A Testament
ISBN-13: 978-1906717476

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As one of the new initiatives for the Year of Debugging  DumpAnalysis Portal will publish bimonthly full color 16 page publication called:

Debugged! MZ/PE: MagaZine for/from Practicing Engineers
The only serial publication dedicated entirely to Windows® debugging

The first issue is planned for March, 2009 and will have ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-38-4. If it goes well I’m planning to have ISSN number assigned to it too. More details will be announced soon.

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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:

Table of Contents

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I was thinking about the universal character of debugging for quite some time and finally the following bugtation provided an inspiration for a new book title to be published during the Year of Debugging:

Title: Breaking the Bug: Debugging as a Natural Phenomenon
ISBN-13: 978-1906717377

More product details will be announced later.

Actually I believe in the mystical nature of various debugging numbers and sequences. For example, the ISBN number of this book ends in 377 which is the octal base equivalent of 0n255 or 0xFF.

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“Breaking the” Bug: Debugging “as a Natural Phenomenon”

Daniel Clement Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

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Just realized that yesterday I wrote 100^th crash dump analysis pattern. Today I’m going to write 101^st. Just to remind that the fully classified color catalog of them is planned to be published:

Forthcoming CDAP Encyclopedia

More details will be announced closer to that date.

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Paperback edition of Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 2 is finally available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Search Inside is also available on Amazon. In addition, I updated the list of recommended books:

Listmania! Crash Dump Analysis and Debugging

Hardcover edition will be available on Amazon and B&N in 2-3 weeks.

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“On Mind-Body problem and Afterlife: if Mind is merely a computation then what is left is a memory dump in the Body”.

Dmitry Vostokov

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