fry
1. vi. To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing
hardware failures. More generally, to become non-working. Usage:
never said of software, only of hardware and humans. See
fried, magic smoke. 2. vt. To cause to fail; to
roach, toast, or hose a piece of hardware.
used of software or humans, but compare fried.
1. vi. To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing
hardware failures. More generally, to become non-working. Usage:
never said of software, only of hardware and humans. See
fried, magic smoke. 2. vt. To cause to fail; to
roach, toast, or hose a piece of hardware.
used of software or humans, but compare fried.
Related:
- fry: 1. vi. To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing hardware
failures.
More generally, to become non-working. Usage: never... - let the smoke out v.
To fry hardware (see fried).
See magic smoke for a discussion of the underlying... - fried adj.
1. [common] Non-working due to hardware
failure;
burnt out. Especially used of hardware brought down... - fried: adj. 1. Non-working due to hardware failure;
burnt out. Especially used of hardware brought down... - roach: [Bell Labs] vt. To destroy, esp. of a data structure.
Hardware gets {toast}ed or {fried}, software gets... - smoke vi.
1. To crash or blow up, usually
spectacularly.
"The new version smoked, just like the last one." ... - roach vt.
[Bell Labs] To destroy, esp. of a data
structure.
Hardware gets toasted or fried, software gets roached... - dead adj.
1. Non-functional; down; crashed.
Especially used of hardware.
2. At XEROX PARC, software that is working but not... - smoke: vi. 1. To {crash} or blow up, usually spectacularly.
"The new version smoked, just like the last one...
From the same category:
- scribble n.
To modify a data structure in a random and
unintentionally destructive way.
"Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program went... - Dragon Book n.
The classic text "Compilers:
Principles,
Techniques and Tools", by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi... - state n.
1. Condition, situation.
"What's the state of your latest hack?" "It's winning... - funky adj.
Said of something that functions, but in a
slightly strange,
klugey way. It does the job and would be difficult... - flarp /flarp/ n.
[Rutgers University] Yet another
metasyntactic variable (see foo).
Among those who u it, it is associated with a legend...
