Re: Suggestions for A!MS Technical FAQ


to megami@ml.usagi.org
from stevenav@att.net
subject Re: Suggestions for A!MS Technical FAQ
date Tue, 05 Feb 2002 22:43:09 +0000
> Oh, I see now. You're saying Yggdrasil creates the
> bugs intentionally as a reaction to a problem in the
> system.

Yes, much like a computer system generates an error message to discribe what 
the error was. 
 

> 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. 

 

> 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. 
 

>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. 

Say your vid card's driver is messing up something else, what do you do?
Well you don't automatically KNOW it's the vid card, you instead gather info 
about it, analyze the issue, and then come to a logical conclusion, and 
impliment a fix (install an updated driver)
 

Our own computers, (my windows system) doesn't ignor errors, instead, it lets 
me know a program crashed, or that there were issues in the program, 
ultimately culminating in a error message that tells me something about the 
issue. 
 
I research the issue, figure out what is causing it, and fix it. 
Since the AMS author draws a lot of analogies to current tech, it's logical 
to assume that he would have Yggdrasil follow simular rules wouldn't it?
 

The thing is, does my athlon 750 create the errors I deal with? Does the OS? 
Does the program?
 
You can't tell until you get the error message itself.. what I'm theorizing 
here is that the Bugs are actually the error message, and the error log, all 
in one package, and as a consequence of Yggdrasils hyper dimensional , and 
supernatural nature, that the bugs take on a life and intelligence of their 
own, and that the debugging process that we see, is only a tiny sliver of 
what's really happening. 
 

-steve

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