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Last week, Microsoft’s Windows 7, once the go-to operating system of nearly 60 percent of all computers , reached the company’s designated end of the road for security patches. Like Windows XP before in 2014 , if you have a Windows 7 computer, it’s long past time for you to shell out some cash for a new one.

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In the advisory, Microsoft provides a technical description of the hole; “The vulnerability is a remote code execution vulnerability… An attacker could host a specially crafted website that is designed to exploit this vulnerability through Internet Explorer and then convince a user to view the website.” But patching systems requires actions.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

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That may or may not be advisable for career development, but it’s a reality that businesses built on training and learning have to acknowledge. It’s now used in operating systems (Linux kernel components), tool development, and even enterprise software. 1 That makes sense, given the more technical nature of our audience.

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JANUARY 21, 2016

The Google File System by Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, and Shun-Tak Leung described how the data was managed by dividing it into small chunks and maintaining multiple copies (typically three) of each chunk across the hardware. And I admired Google for sharing these sophisticated technical insights. That was a surprise!

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