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Comment Re:20 years old? That doesn't solve my problem... (Score 1) 133

One User-agent switcher worked on one site! Thanks a lot but on another one, the message I get is this:

To access this site your Internet Explorer parser must be MSXML 3.0 or greater. Please use Internet Explorer version 6.0 (and higher) or download the correct parser version in order to properly view the web pages located within. Current parser is not MSXML 3.0 or greater.

Thanks!

Comment 20 years old? That doesn't solve my problem... (Score -1, Offtopic) 133

Look, that OS might be that old but this doesn't solve my problem. I need something to help me "fool" systems that throw messages like this: -

You must be using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or better in order to use Iatric Pay View.

To make matters worse, my computing platform of choice is now Google's Chromebook. I am sure there's a geeky slashdotter who can help, right?

Comment Re:I'm liking how Russia is standing up these days (Score 2) 234

You must be joking right? Powerful armies can and have been defeated many times. Remember the USA and Vietnam?

On the other hand, I believe Russia has the [military] hardware to deliver serious havoc on the US should America take the unwise route.

What would the USA's most powerful president have done in the circumstances anyway?

Comment It's not difficult to prove at all (Score 4, Informative) 379

There are certainly older programmers who can produce much better software at faster rates than their younger counterparts, but it is difficult to prove and requires the employer to take a greater risk in hiring you.

It isn't difficult at all. At my company, an "older programmer" solved a bug in code written by a younger fella by introducing a function that we all never knew about. This fella refactored code, cleaned up the mess we had in our AIX/DB2 system and saved my company lots of cash by single handedly writing code that verified that our data migration to PostgreSQL from the mentioned DB2 system was worthwhile.

Specifically, he wrote code that printed cheques the way we wanted (Numbers to words), in about 1/4 of the lines of code we had. All this by employing functions we never knew existed. Nothing can beat knowledge/experience. Nothing!

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