Chris Brewer - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Using older versions of IE? (Score 1) 409

by Chris Brewer on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @08:39PM (#27766737) Attached to: IE8 Released As Critical Update For XP

Probably not as down the page it says:

Multiple IE is no longer maintained and there are no plans to continue maintaining it! Thanks and good luck!

Never mind, you could always just have an XP VM with the IE8 blocker installed, running IE7 plus MultipleIE. That way you won't need to worry about having that extra cruft on your host.

Comment Copycat marketing (Score 1) 186

by Chris Brewer on Friday April 17, 2009 @04:28PM (#27619481) Attached to: Ford Bets On Social Media For Fiesta

Down here in New Zealand they're doing the marketing in a manner very similar to Robert Llewellyn's "Car Pool". @bobbyllew as you should know is Kryten from Red Dwarf.

Comment !funny (Score 1) 1

by Chris Brewer on Thursday April 02, 2009 @03:33PM (#27435303) Attached to: Register.com experiencing DNS issues

Damn it! It's affected our public website and our consultant portal (we can't change the portal because we're using SSL).

Submission + - Register.com experiencing DNS issues (theinquirer.net) 1

Submitted by

howardd21

on Thursday April 02, 2009 @03:15PM

howardd21 writes: "Register.com, the giant domain registrar has been experiencing DNS issues since last night. Various blogs and twitter traffic have been reporting issues where domains were unreachable. Register.com help desk employees have denied any problems, in spite of the reported issues from various sources. What may be as interesting as the problems Register is appearing to have, is the observation that Twitter is being used as an originating news source where others have missed this. I can also report that our clients pointed at Registrar.com are now having issues, and Registrar employees re now confirming issues."

Comment Oblig: (Score 2, Funny) 187

by Chris Brewer on Sunday March 08, 2009 @10:20PM (#27116977) Attached to: Norwegian Broadcasting Sets Up Its Own Tracker

A moose once bit my sister...

Comment Re:Worthy of Mordor? (Score 1) 273

by Chris Brewer on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @09:04PM (#27059061) Attached to: MediaSentry & RIAA Expert Under Attack

Please god, send us a lawyer worthy of Mordor.

I'm not sure that's the wisest thing to wish for. :D

Yeah, but don't forget they were finished off by a bunch of trees...

Submission + - John W. Backus, developer of Fortran, dies

Submitted by

PCOL

on Monday March 19, 2007 @09:21PM

PCOL writes: "The New York Times reports that John W. Backus, who assembled and led the I.B.M. team that created Fortran, the first widely used programming language, died at his home at 82. Fortran, released in 1957, was "the turning point" in computer software, much as the microprocessor was a giant step forward in hardware, according to J. A. N. Lee, a leading computer historian. Ken Thompson observed that "95 percent of the people who programmed in the early years would never have done it without Fortran," adding that "It was a massive step." Though debatably not the first high-level programming language, it was the first to achieve wide use. Backus' other accomplishments included inventing the Backus-Naur form (BNF, the almost universally used notation to define formal language syntax), and also the concept of Function-level programming."

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