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Blow Past: Vt. To {blow Out} Despite A Safeguard. "The Server Blew Past The 5K Reserve Buffer.
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:blow past: vt. To {blow out} despite a safeguard. "The server blew
past the 5K reserve buffer."
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
blow past vt. To blow out despite a safeguard. "The server blew past the 5K reserve buffer.
blow out: [prob. from mining and tunneling jargon] vi.
Of software, to fail spectacularly; almost as serious as {crash and burn}....
blow away: vt. To remove (files and directories) from permanent storage, generally by accident.
He reformatted the wrong partition and blew away last night's netnews....
blow up: vi. 1. [scientific computation] To become unstable.
Suggests that the computation is diverging so rapidly that it will soon overflow or at least go {nonlinear}....
gobble: vt. 1. To consume, usu. used with `up'. "The output spy gobbles characters out of a {tty} output buffer.
2. To obtain, usu. used with `down'. "I guess I'll gobble down a copy of the documentation tomorrow....
walk off the end of: vt. To run past the end of an array, list, or medium after stepping through it --- a good way to land in trouble.
Often the result of an {off-by-one error}. Compare {clobber}, {roach}, {smash the stack}....
pound on: vt. Syn. {bang on}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Blow it out your ear.
blow away vt. To remove (files and directories) from permanent storage, generally by accident.
He reformatted the wrong partition and blew away last night's netnews." Oppose nuke....