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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>brick</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="Breidbart-Index.html" title="Breidbart Index"/><link rel="next" href="bricktext.html" title="bricktext"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">brick</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Breidbart-Index.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="bricktext.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="brick"/><dt xmlns="" id="brick"><b>brick</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>1. A piece of equipment that has been programmed or configured into a
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<a href="../H/hung.html"><i class="glossterm">hung</i></a>, <a href="../W/wedged.html"><i class="glossterm">wedged</i></a>,unusable
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state. Especially used to describe what happens to devices like routers or
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PDAs that run from firmware when the firmware image is damaged or its
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settings are somehow patched to impossible values. This term usually
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implies irreversibility, but equipment can sometimes be unbricked by
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performing a hard reset or some other drastic operation. Sometimes verbed:
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“<span class="quote">Yeah, I bricked the router because I forgot about adding in the new
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access-list.</span>”.</p></dd><dd><p>2. An outboard power transformer of the kind associated with laptops,
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modems, routers and other small computing appliances, especially one of the
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modern type with cords on both ends, as opposed to the older and obnoxious
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type that plug directly into wall or barrier strip.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Breidbart-Index.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="bricktext.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Breidbart Index<65></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>bricktext</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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