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Most Expensive JavaScript Ever?

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Like every other Opera user by doas777 · · Score: 5, Funny

    spoof the agent, just like everyone else who uses Opera

  2. I'm going to go out on a limb, and say.... by popo · · Score: 5, Funny

    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
    .
    .

    if (is.explorer)
    {
    window.location.href="config/error.htm";
    }

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    ------ The best brain training is now totally free : )
  3. At least someone knew what Opera was. by Kupfernigk · · Score: 5, Funny
    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."

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    From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
  4. Ah, memories of days past.... by dals_rule · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.....

  5. Re:So who was it ?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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