great bit bucket in the sky

English

Proper noun

the great bit bucket in the sky

  1. (computing, humorous, slang) Synonym of bit bucket (“notional resting place of lost or missing digital information”).
    • 1988, PC Mag, volume 7, number 17, page 80:
      You cannot interrupt it by pressing Esc or Ctrl-Break, and if you use brute force to stop it by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del or by turning off the machine, your data will disappear into the great bit-bucket in the sky. Most other disk packers guard against accidental data loss by keeping a spare copy of a cluster ondisk while transferring another copy from one part of the disk to another.
    • 2016, Gilbert Held, Windows Networking Tools, page 158:
      So a file named a.doc or files 1.doc through 9.doc would be sent to the great bit bucket in the sky; however, a file named 10.doc, because it has two characters in the file name, would not be affected by the previous command, which may not have been your intention.

See also

  • Appendix:Snowclones/the great X in the sky
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