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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."

Spaceplane Concept Receives Euro Funding 193

Posted by samzenpus on Friday February 20, 2009 @05:15AM from the space-plane-race dept.

draevil writes "BBC News reports that the novel "Skylon" spaceplane design of British firm Reaction Engines has received funding to proceed with its proof-of-concept design for an air-breathing rocket engine. If successful, the Sabre rocket engine will be able to take the Skylon with 12 tonnes of cargo from a runway, to orbit and then back to that runway without the need for disposable components or a piggy-back ride on a larger aircraft. Should the design prove viable, it could see first use within ten years."

Comment Re:Too Generic (Score 1) 160

by sasoon on Friday January 11, 2008 @04:53PM (#22004822) Attached to: Rails May Not Suck

Yeah ... just like Microsoft Access felt in 1999

Journal Journal: Charset versus Charencoding

Journal by sasoon on Thursday August 23, 2007 @09:08AM

Charset is the asignment of a Integer value to a symbol

Character encoding is encoding algorythm of the Charset's integer values into a byte stream

For example Unicode is a charset UTF8 and UTF16 are charecter encodings

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