fried
1. <hardware> Non-working due to hardware failure; burnt out. Especially
used of hardware brought down by a "power glitch" (see glitch), drop-outs, a
short, or some other electrical event. (Sometimes this literally happens to
electronic circuits! In particular, resistors can burn out and transformers can
melt down, emitting noxious smoke - see friode, SED and LER. However, this term
is also used metaphorically.) Compare frotzed.
2. <jargon> Of people, exhausted. Said particularly of those who continue
to work in such a state. Often used as an explanation or excuse. "Yeah, I know
that fix destroyed the file system, but I was fried when I put it in."
Especially common in conjunction with "brain": "My brain is fried today, I'm
very short on sleep."
[Jargon File]
(1996-04-28)
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