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The face of a Bug

This video programmers can finally see the faces of the Bug that "infest" the code of their programs.



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Definition associated with the video taken from Wikipedia: In computer

the term bug (from "bug") identifies an error in writing software, which causes its malfunction or otherwise different from what the author intended and in some cases its complete closure, less commonly, the term bug may indicate a design flaw in a piece of hardware that causes unexpected behavior or any other that specified by the manufacturer.

bugs in a program may be particularly severe in some cases to such an extent that makes them vulnerable to attacks even the computer that hosts the software.

• Bug famous in the computer world are the so-called buffer overflow.

• A known bug in a piece of hardware is that in 1994 the then infant afflicted Pentium microprocessor, which in sometimes returned incorrect results even in simple arithmetic. The first Pentium indeed had problems in the FPU (Floating Point Unit, floating-point unit or math coprocessor as mentioned above) that wandered just a few decimal operations. At first he was released a software which excluded this unit and then all the chips were replaced.

The use of the term bug is related to a curious anecdote dating back to the pioneering days of computing, in August 1945, Lieutenant Hopper and his group were seeking the cause of the malfunction of a computer when Mark II, with amazement, they realized that it was a moth stuck between the circuits. After removing the insect, Lt. removed the moth stuck on the computer's registry and noted: "1545. Relay # 70 Panel F (moth) in relay. First actual case of bug Being Found. " This register is kept at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

In fact, the term bug in the sense of technical problem has been used since at least 1870, is quoted in this regard in a letter to Edison in 1878, likely use of this term is of Scottish origin.

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