About 15 years ago, while working on Windows at Microsoft, a test machine sitting at my desk hit a kernel panic (BSOD). As was standard working on the test team, the machine was already setup for kernel debugging, and so I set out to debug it a bit in order to file a decent bug report.
Hours later, I couldn't make sense of it (I wasn't super experienced at this point). A few of the nearby devs couldn't either, and a small troop of us curious enough about the puzzler eventually escalated to the resident wizard, Raymond Chen[1]. Within 15 minutes of checking our work and poking at the machine, he traced the root cause down to a bit flip.
About 15 years ago, while working on Windows at Microsoft, a test machine sitting at my desk hit a kernel panic (BSOD). As was standard working on the test team, the machine was already setup for kernel debugging, and so I set out to debug it a bit in order to file a decent bug report.
Hours later, I couldn't make sense of it (I wasn't super experienced at this point). A few of the nearby devs couldn't either, and a small troop of us curious enough about the puzzler eventually escalated to the resident wizard, Raymond Chen[1]. Within 15 minutes of checking our work and poking at the machine, he traced the root cause down to a bit flip.
Ray's condition indeed. :)
[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/