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  Encyclopedia article: Core dump   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A core dump is an unstructured record of the contents of working memory (An electronic memory device) at a specific time, generally used to debug (additional info and facts about debug) a program that has terminated abnormally (crashed).
Core dumps are a useful debugging aid in several situations.
The paper form of dump generally was arranged in columns of hexadecimal (additional info and facts about hexadecimal) numbers (a "hex dump"), sometimes with alternate interpretations of memory contents along the side: as machine language instructions, as text strings, as decimal numbers, as floating-point numbers, etc.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/core_dump.htm   (416 words)

  
 Core dump - Computing Reference - eLook.org
A copy of the contents of core, produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error.
A complete account of a human's knowledge on some subject (also brain dump), especially in a lecture or answer to an exam question.
"Short, concise answers are better than core dumps" (from the instructions to an exam at Columbia).
www.elook.org /computing/core-dump.htm   (66 words)

  
 The Core Dump   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Flatline, my Fedora Core 4 machine, has gone into some kind of psychotic death spiral, where after running yum-update it experiences a spate of disk errors and becomes unusable.
It could be that this is some kind of hardware problem, but that seems unlikely as the machine can take any kind of load in stress testing, but goes into cutter-teenage-goth-on-LiveJournal-mode after yum updates.
Unfortunately, the sentence has been deferred until some more legal machinery wrangling can take place, so let’s all cross our fingers that it really happens, and that he gets Bruno for a cell mate.
thecoredump.org /articles/category/Technology   (1281 words)

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