Running a web bot/spider that downloaded a very large number of pages - more than could possibly justified as "personal use".Automated spam (advertising) or intrustion attempts (hacking).Anyone who spends time trying to get all the faults out of a system knows how it feels: After a few hours of debugging, any problems that remain are hellspawn, mocking attempts to get rid of them with a devilish glee.Your current IP address has been blocked due to bad behavior, which generally means one of the following: Like gremlins in machinery, system bugs are malicious. Word nerds trace the word bug to an old term for a monster - it's a word that has survived in obscure terms like bugaboo and bugbear and in a mangled form in the word boogeyman. 'Bugs' - as such little faults and difficulties are called - show themselves and months of intense watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success or failure is certainly reached. Here's an extract of a letter he wrote in 1878 to Theodore Puskas, as cited in The Yale Book of Quotations (2006): Inventors and engineers had been talking about bugs for more than a century before the moth in the relay incident. The core facts of the story are true - including the date of September 9 and time of 15:45 hours - but that's not how this meaning of the word bug appeared in the dictionary. And although Grace Hopper often talked about the moth in the relay, she did not make the discovery or the log entry. The comment doesn't make sense in that context, except as an example of engineer humor. For another thing, you don't use a line like "First actual case of bug being found" if the term bug isn't already in common use. Yes, it's an oft-repeated tale, but it's got more bugs in it than Relay 70 probably ever had.įor one thing, Harvard's Mark II came online in summer of 1947, two years after the date attributed to this story.
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