Thursday March 17, 2005

Brickify - Geek Word of the Day

brickify (v) :
1. To render an otherwise perfectly good piece of computer hardware unbootable and worthless through either installation of bogus software, or by configuring something completely wrong.

See also fatfinger, bonehead, toast, PoS, beta, pre-release, and overlapping partitions

From the Canadian "Brick(lin)", a defunct Acrylic car, and the Geek-term "iffy", or of doubtful reliability (often a synonym for Bricklin).

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