:gronk: /gronk/ [popularized by Johnny Hart's comic strip
"B.C." but the word apparently predates that] vt. 1. To
clear the state of a wedged device and restart it. More severe
than `to {frob}' (sense 2). 2. [TMRC] To cut, sever, smash,
or similarly disable. 3. The sound made by many 3.5-inch diskette
drives. In particular, the microfloppies on a Commodore Amiga go
"grink, gronk".
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
"B.C." but the word apparently predates that] vt. 1. To
clear the state of a wedged device and restart it. More severe
than `to {frob}' (sense 2). 2. [TMRC] To cut, sever, smash,
or similarly disable. 3. The sound made by many 3.5-inch diskette
drives. In particular, the microfloppies on a Commodore Amiga go
"grink, gronk".
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- gronk /gronk/ vt.
[popularized by Johnny Hart's comic
strip "B.C." but the word apparently predates that] 1.
To clear the state of a wedged device and restart... - wedged adj.
1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding
without help.
This is different from having crashed. If the system... - state: n. 1. Condition, situation. "What's the state of your
latest hack?" "It's winning away." "The system tried to read
and write the disk simultaneously and got into a totally {wedged}
state." The standard question "What's your state?" means
"What are you doing?" or "What are you about to do?" Typical
answers are "about to gronk out",
or "hungry". Another standard question is "What's... - wedged: adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without
help.
This is different from having crashed. If the system... - frob: /frob/ 1. n. [MIT] The {TMRC} definition was "FROB = a
protruding arm or trunnion";
by metaphoric extension, a `frob' is any random... - gronk out: vi. To cease functioning. Of people, to go home and go
to sleep.
"I guess I'll gronk out now; see you all tomorrow."... - state n.
1. Condition, situation. "What's the state of
your latest hack?" "It's winning away." "The system tried to
read and write the disk simultaneously and got into a totally
wedged state." The standard question "What's your state?"
means "What are you doing?" or "What are you about to do?"
Typical answers are "about to gronk out",
or "hungry". Another standard question is "What's... - gonk: /gonk/ vt.,n. 1. To prevaricate or to embellish the truth
beyond any reasonable recognition.
In German the term is (mythically) `gonken'; in... - crash: 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said
of the {system} (q.v.
sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term...
