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Re: [cobalt-developers] unrequested reboot - two days in a row



Harald Kapper wrote:

> i guess not. i think it is associating to the "heisenberg's unsharpeness-relation"

in English: "Heisenberg's uncertainty principle".  The idea is that one can
not know both the location and velocity of a quantum particle.  Also
suggests that the effect of observing a system changes the behavior of the
system.  

A "heisenbug" is a bug that disappears as soon as you start debugging it
(very often race-conditions are Heisenbugs).


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Tim Hockin
Systems Software Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances
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