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beeble -> RE: Question about letters.... (2/27/2009 1:22:29 AM)
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littlesarbonn wrote:
Grok also has a computer terminology name which means to basically bang a keyboard until you get it right, meaning to just keep plodding forward in hopes of just getting the results you were hoping to get. We used to use it in computer repair, which usually meant you hit the side of the machine to see if it might fix the problem (in the olden days, daughter cards used to come undone, and you could sometimes fix them by just jolting the machine).
I've never heard that meaning and it's so contradictory to every other definition I've seen (Google define:, the New Hacker's Dictionary, urbandictionary) that I'm going to have to assume that it was a misunderstanding on somebody's part or an ironic usage that came into local use with a group of people you were with. For example, somebody may have claimed to understand computers to the extent of spiritually becoming one with them (i.e., to grok them) and ironically demonstrated this one-ness by being able to repair computers by mashing keyboards or hitting them and then people took `grok' to refer to the hitting rather than the intuitive understanding.
Grok is a word that has, as far as I can see, spread from computer geeks so I would be very surprised if there was a second, widely-known meaning of the word within computing.
beeble.
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