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- noun The destructive
wave ofpressure caused by anexplosion
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Examples
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I recently had the opportunity to see a long-standing mall -- a sterile ghost of its former success -- ravaged by wrecking balls until one could imagine it had been uprooted by a nuclear blastwave.
Archive 2006-03-01 Mac 2006
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I watched dazedly for a moment and waited for the blastwave, which arrived several seconds later, rocketing me into the sky.
Archive 2006-01-01 Mac 2006
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Then find on the blastwave page, find the package name for the software of interest.
Sun Bloggers 2009
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Currently I have a blastwave version but again I intend to build this from scratch again the addition of OpenSSL and libcrypto should make this easy.
Planet Sun 2009
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Currently I have a blastwave version but again I intend to build this from scratch again the addition of OpenSSL and libcrypto should make this easy.
Planet Sun 2009
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Since I am using certain encryption routines, virus detection and spamassassin I was unable to use the standard MTA, sendmail, when the system was originaly built and have been using exim, from blastwave.
Planet Sun 2009
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Since I am using certain encryption routines, virus detection and spamassassin I was unable to use the standard MTA, sendmail, when the system was originaly built and have been using exim, from blastwave.
Planet Sun 2009
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Even huge systems like the KDE desktop can be installed with a single command using blastwave.
Network News 2008
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It’s like a heavenly glow right before the blastwave destroys the Lost Fan-boy.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Today’s Comic: “This year, in Lost” 2008
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