Message-ID: <20020206173210.20104.qmail@web11101.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 09:32:10 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Welch Subject: Re: Suggestions for A!MS Technical FAQ To: megami@ml.usagi.org In-Reply-To: <20020205224309.RFGL5540.mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net@webmail.worldnet.att.net> Reply-To: megami@ML.usagi.org X-ML-archive: http://www.win.ne.jp/~doi/ML/ Precedence: bulk Got bounced back again (making a bad habit of this, I am.) --- stevenav@att.net wrote: > > I won't deny that bugs possess some level of > > intelligence, but there are a couple things which > > indicate Yggdrasil does not purposefully generate > > them. > > Ahhh, but I'm not saying it purposely generates the > errors, it merely might > take the errors, trap the error conditions, and then > package the error the > info about the error, and whatever system data is > needed, and forcibly put it > in a fluffy buggy bunny package for harvest. > > To us, it looks like the bunny thing, to the > extradimensional senses of a > goddess, perhaps its more or less like seeing an > error message pop up on the > screen in windows. > > > First, bugs try to avoid being hit by Skuld. > > Intelligence, even animal level intelligence denotes > a survival instinct, > well except in the case of lemmings heh. > > But seriously, you have to consider, what we see is > the bug being evasive, > the goddesses might merely be slightly vexed because > the bug/error is a > particulartly slippery problem ot figure out > precisely how to deal with them. OK, I see, even if it sounds kind of "out there." > > Second, Urd tries to "debug" them by just > > blasting them. > > Again, we are only seeing the 3-dimensional slice of > what she's really trying > to do. > > Could be that as a sys-admin she has access to tools > that Skuld does not. > Talk to anyone in an IT dept, the sys admins have > reserved privledged abilities. Besides, Skuld doesn't have the power to do something like that. > >If they weren't in and of themselves > > detrimental to the system, they wouldn't try to > avoid > > debugging and Urd wouldn't try to destroy them en > > masse. > > > > So, you leave the error messages, or running program > functions, up on your > screen, taking up processor cycles ? > > Oh course not,you shut them down, and try to figure > out what caused them. Interesting theory. Kind of involved, but you've defended your assumptions well. My only remaining issue is that it fails the test of Occam's Razor. In other words, it requires a greater number of assumptions than if bugs are really just bugs which don't want to be hit with a debugging hammer. Not to say this theory is wrong, just somewhat more complex than is absolutely necessary to explain observed phenomena. ^_^ Brian W.