:zap: 1. n. Spiciness. 2. vt. To make food spicy. 3. vt. To make
someone `suffer' by making his food spicy. (Most hackers love
spicy food. Hot-and-sour soup is considered wimpy unless it makes
you wipe your nose for the rest of the meal.) See {zapped}.
4. vt. To modify, usually to correct; esp. used when the action
is performed with a debugger or binary patching tool. Also implies
surgical precision. "Zap the debug level to 6 and run it again."
In the IBM mainframe world, binary patches are applied to programs
or to the OS with a program called `superzap', whose file name is
`IMASPZAP' (possibly contrived from I M A SuPerZAP). 5. vt. To
erase or reset. 6. To {fry} a chip with static electricity.
"Uh oh --- I think that lightning strike may have zapped the disk
controller."
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
someone `suffer' by making his food spicy. (Most hackers love
spicy food. Hot-and-sour soup is considered wimpy unless it makes
you wipe your nose for the rest of the meal.) See {zapped}.
4. vt. To modify, usually to correct; esp. used when the action
is performed with a debugger or binary patching tool. Also implies
surgical precision. "Zap the debug level to 6 and run it again."
In the IBM mainframe world, binary patches are applied to programs
or to the OS with a program called `superzap', whose file name is
`IMASPZAP' (possibly contrived from I M A SuPerZAP). 5. vt. To
erase or reset. 6. To {fry} a chip with static electricity.
"Uh oh --- I think that lightning strike may have zapped the disk
controller."
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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- zap
1. n. Spiciness. 2. vt. To make food spicy.
3. vt. To make someone `suffer' by making his food... - zapped: adj. Spicy. This term is used to distinguish between food
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For example, the Chinese appetizer Bon Bon Chicken... - zapped adj.
Spicy. This term is used to distinguish
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spicy-hot.
For example, the Chinese appetizer Bon Bon Chicken... - patch
1. n. A temporary addition to a piece of code,
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