Most Expensive JavaScript Ever?

Most Expensive JavaScript Ever? 405

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @08:45AM from the not-their-best-work dept.

ekran writes "A while ago Opera Software needed more servers. Not just a few servers either — they were planning Opera Mini's growth, implementing Opera Link, and My Opera was also growing quickly. Most of the major hardware vendors grabbed their specs and came back with offers and sample servers shipped all the way to Oslo for testing. One of the biggest vendors, however, did not do their homework. They shipped the server, but when the Opera sysadmins started up the web-admin interface, they were met with a JavaScript statement that managed to piss off the whole company including the CTO. The script, apparently, locked out the Opera web-browser."

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More servers (Score:5, Funny)

by badfish99 ( 826052 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @08:51AM (#28768543)

A while ago Opera Software needed more servers
I think they still do.

Like every other Opera user (Score:5, Funny)

by doas777 ( 1138627 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @09:02AM (#28768647)

spoof the agent, just like everyone else who uses Opera

Re:So who was it ?? (Score:5, Funny)

by gEvil (beta) ( 945888 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @09:03AM (#28768655)

What's the current SMP/NOK exchange rate?

I'm going to go out on a limb, and say.... (Score:5, Funny)

by popo ( 107611 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @09:05AM (#28768685) Homepage

Not that Opera doesn't have serious funding... but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this javascript would be more expensive, most of the time
.
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if (is.explorer)
{
window.location.href="config/error.htm";
}

At least someone knew what Opera was. (Score:5, Funny)

by Kupfernigk ( 1190345 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @09:06AM (#28768693)

If you have an enemy, at least someone cares about you.
The British cartoonist Giles is said to have made himself practically sacking proof by one of his cartoons. The Duke of Edinburgh remarked that "The [Daily, owned by Beaverbrook] Express is a bloody awful newspaper."
Giles promptly did a cartoon of his employer being led off in chains by Yeoman Warders, watched by the Duke, with the caption
"Ah well", said Lord B, as they trotted him off to the Tower, "At least he reads it, or he wouldn't know it's a bloody awful newspaper."

For those new here... (Score:5, Funny)

by mcgrew ( 92797 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @09:18AM (#28768809) Homepage Journal

currencies:
NOK = Norwegian krone
SMP = Slashdot Mod Points
The uncyclopedia will explain:
Economy
The currency of Slashdot is the Karma Point (which recently replaced the archaic reputation point used under the barter system). In 2001, the Karma Point was cursed by an evil witch who got modded flamebait. Expert moneyologists agree that the curse is a serious matter, however its nature and effects are as yet unknown, although preliminary reports suggest a correlation between high Karma concentration and the Slashdot Effect.
Slashdot's primary export is journalistic integrity, and Slashdot has grown almost as rich as Oscar Wilde due to skyrocketing prices because of the global shortage, as well as the Federation of Planets adopting integrity as its staple food. Some analysts and economists have speculated that Slashdot does not in fact have any journalistic integrity of its own, and that all exports are either counterfeit or borrowed from the World Bank in exchange for several life-debts. If these accusations turn out to be true, then Slashdot could owe the Wookies that own the Bank several billion lives in payment.
Slashdot's primary import is n00bz, which upon arrival into the country are sent to meat factories to be processed into spam, an all-purpose household paste, good for use as a duct tape, glue, glue solvent, dodgeball, koala, roofing material or low-end computer. The manufacture of spam from n00bz is done through a process called pwnage.

Ah, memories of days past.... (Score:5, Funny)

by dals_rule ( 1076803 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @09:39AM (#28769003)

Many years ago, we were bidding on a US Postal Service contract to supply computer equipment to all of their offices. We had several pallets of bid material on the loading dock, ready to go. Fortunately, one of the program managers made a last minute check and discovered (in time!) that nobody had bothered to tell the shipping department to ignore the standard, "Ship all contract proposals FedEx, overnight", procedure in this case.....

Re:So who was it ?? (Score:4, Funny)

by L4t3r4lu5 ( 1216702 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @09:52AM (#28769165)

And more importantly, how many Libraries of Congress can we fill if we buy 5.25" floppy disks full of The Internet?

Re:So who was it ?? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @09:54AM (#28769183)

That must be terrible, being forced to use a non-broken browser. I'm so sorry!

Re:So who was it ?? (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @10:07AM (#28769351)

Americans making currency jokes about an oil exporting country.
That's why love this site.

Re:ok so the company lost money... (Score:1, Funny)

by Mystra_x64 ( 1108487 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @10:08AM (#28769357)

Trolls are so obvious lately. Back then they were more green and weren't that fat. Sigh...

Re:From +1 INFORMATIVE now down to 0 INFORMATIVE? (Score:4, Funny)

by __aaxwdb6741 ( 884633 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @10:21AM (#28769543) Journal

I'd mod you "-1, Annoying as hell typing syntax".

Re:So who was it ?? (Score:3, Funny)

by coolsnowmen ( 695297 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @10:34AM (#28769735)

How else are they going to make the cool intro screen with flying text and their logo that links to main.htm?

Re:So who was it ?? (Score:5, Funny)

by EdZ ( 755139 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @10:38AM (#28769785)

The Library of Congress is a unit of data storage, not a unit of volume!

I just visited opera.com with Firefox (Score:4, Funny)

by Skapare ( 16644 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @10:42AM (#28769851) Homepage

... and it worked. It displays just fine. Are they trying to make their competitors look good or something?

Re:So who was it ?? (Score:3, Funny)

by brusk ( 135896 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @10:52AM (#28769951)

Why can't it be both? It wouldn't be that hard to measure the volume of all the buildings making up the LoC.

Re:So who was it ?? (Score:3, Funny)

by brusk ( 135896 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @10:53AM (#28769981)

Who's there?

Re:ok so the company lost money... (Score:3, Funny)

by brusk ( 135896 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @11:01AM (#28770077)

You really, REALLY don't want to know why some places mandate the GIMP as a graphics editor.

Re:So who was it ?? (Score:5, Funny)

by c0p0n ( 770852 ) writes: <copong@@@gmail...com> on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @11:04AM (#28770113)

That's what cubic football stadiums are for.

Re:ok so the company lost money... (Score:5, Funny)

by robot_love ( 1089921 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @11:08AM (#28770151)

Way ahead of you, my friend!

ATD (Score:5, Funny)

by jDeepbeep ( 913892 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @11:17AM (#28770259)

What's the current SMP/NOK exchange rate?
The same as the current SMP/ATD (Alterian Dollar) exchange rate. The problem here is the Vogons mod everything down except their own poetry.

Re:So who was it ?? (Score:3, Funny)

by Keeper Of Keys ( 928206 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @11:27AM (#28770367) Homepage

Remind me, exactly how many cubic footballs fit into one stadium?

Re:So who was it ?? (Score:3, Funny)

by norminator ( 784674 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @11:29AM (#28770399)

The same as the ratio of Schrute Bucks to Stanley Nickels or Unicorns to Leprechauns.

Re:More servers (Score:3, Funny)

by CarpetShark ( 865376 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @12:09PM (#28771009)

A while ago Opera Software needed more servers
I think they still do.
Why do you think they put a server into every Opera browser?

Re:So who was it ?? (Score:5, Funny)

by C0vardeAn0nim0 ( 232451 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @12:34PM (#28771317) Journal

volkswagen beetles are a measure of volume
football stadiums are a measure of area
round trips to the moon is a measure of lenght
parsecs are a measure of time
shitloads are a mesure of weight
bajillions are a dimensionless quantity
and the measure of power is a universal constant: 1.21 jigawatts

OT: Slashdot Achievement (Score:3, Funny)

by rhendershot ( 46429 ) writes: on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @11:20PM (#28777983) Journal

Driving your nice little environment degrading Toyota Prius to Germany and finding out they have trimmed all branches of trees so that only VW, BMW, Merc and Audi can pass through without being scratched would probably upset you just as much

Fantastic! I nominate yours for a Slashdot Achievement (which if they don't have then they certainly *should* have!)
Most Tortured Car Analogy of the Year ;)

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More servers (Score:5, Funny)

Like every other Opera user (Score:5, Funny)

Re:So who was it ?? (Score:5, Funny)

I'm going to go out on a limb, and say.... (Score:5, Funny)

At least someone knew what Opera was. (Score:5, Funny)

For those new here... (Score:5, Funny)

Ah, memories of days past.... (Score:5, Funny)

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Re:From +1 INFORMATIVE now down to 0 INFORMATIVE? (Score:4, Funny)

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I just visited opera.com with Firefox (Score:4, Funny)

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ATD (Score:5, Funny)

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