The window.onerror handler catches Javascript errors in Chrome 13+, Firefox 6.0+, Internet Explorer 5.5+, Opera 11.60+ and Safari 5.1+. There’s already a really good answer on StackOverflow which provides a lot of information about it. It does not catch failures to load resources, though. As far as other elements (such as images) are concerned, jQuery … Read more
The thing is, ECC is dirt cheap compared to “software ECC countermeasures”. You can easily detect if they have ECC modules and complain (or print a warning) when they don’t. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ecc-memory-modules/ For example, can we see all writes to memory (both from user and kernel space), to distinguish between intended memory changes from in-memory bit … Read more
From Wikipedia: Studies by IBM in the 1990s suggest that computers typically experience about one cosmic-ray-induced error per 256 megabytes of RAM per month.[15] This means a probability of 3.7 × 10-9 per byte per month, or 1.4 × 10-15 per byte per second. If your program runs for 1 minute and occupies 20 MB … Read more