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If they pulled it off in survival mode, I would be absolutely floored. Well, I still am anyway, but still- Damn creepers.
by tibbon 15y ago
If they pulled it off in survival mode, I would be absolutely floored. Well, I still am anyway, but still- Damn creepers.
- BHSPitMonkey 15y ago> creepers So THAT'S what was causing the memory corruption.
- LesZedCB 15y agobrings a whole new understanding to "debugging"
- Derbasti 15y agoBut isn't that basically where the term came from? Actual insects frying on circuits and shorting contacts?
- brazzy 15y agoNot really, it was always largely figurative. The famous Mark II logbook with the moth taped to it had the note "First actual case of bug being found." - so that clearly indicates that A) the term had been in use for a while (a very long while, there is a record of Edison using it) and B) Real insects were typically not involved.
- cadab 15y agoThere was a article on HN a few weeks back, the link escapes me. But there was the first ever bug, an actual moth. It was taped to the error log i believe. Edit: Brazzy explains it better and indeed seems more informed :)
- gaius 15y agoYes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper#Anecdotes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper#Anecdotes tho' it was jamming a relay.