:roach: [Bell Labs] vt. To destroy, esp. of a data structure. Hardware
gets {toast}ed or {fried}, software gets roached.
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gets {toast}ed or {fried}, software gets roached.
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Related:
- roach vt.
[Bell Labs] To destroy, esp. of a data
structure.
Hardware gets toasted or fried, software gets roached... - fry: 1. vi. To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing hardware
failures.
More generally, to become non-working. Usage: never... - scrog: /skrog/ [Bell Labs] vt. To damage, trash, or corrupt a
data structure.
"The list header got scrogged." Also reported as... - trash: vt. To destroy the contents of (said of a data structure).
The most common of the family of near-synonyms including... - fry
1. vi. To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing
hardware failures.
More generally, to become non-working. Usage: never... - scag: vt. To destroy the data on a disk, either by corrupting the
filesystem or by causing media damage.
"That last power hit scagged the system disk." Compare... - toast: 1. n. Any completely inoperable system or component,
esp. one that has just crashed and burned: "Uh,... - walk: n.,vt. Traversal of a data structure, especially an array or
linked-list data structure in {core}.
See also {codewalker}, {silly walk}, {clobber}.... - silicon: n. Hardware, esp. ICs or microprocessor-based computer
systems (compare {iron}).
Contrasted with software. See also {sandbender}...
From the same category:
- shareware: /sheir'weir/ n. {Freeware} (sense 1) for which the
author requests some payment,
usually in the accompanying documentation files... - Is it really music if there's no
melody... - The terrorists are irrational. "Allah says die Yankee dog!" Whaddya gonna
do?
I think we can use this to our advantage. The Islam... - Here in my heart, I am Helen;
I'm Aspasia and Hero,
at least. I'm Judith, and Jael, and Madame de Sta"el... - rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed
rwxr-xr-t 4 root 131720 Jan 1 1970 /usr/ucb/vi...
