Just a quick note that IBM is celebrating 50 years of mainframe computing. So we have gone from mainframe and dumb terminals, to minicomputers and smarter terminals, to personal computers to client/server, and finally to “cloud services.” In an interesting way that sort of gets us back to the beginning, where everything we want is located on the biggest “mainframe” of them all – the Internet. But instead of dumb terminals we have smart everything, ubiquitous high-speed connectivity, and the ...
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Recent security updates to OSX and Safari closed some significant security holes in OSX 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 and Safari 6 and Safari 7. But it appears that support for OSX 10.6 “Snow Leopard” has been discontinued by the Cupertino firm. This update cycle included 27 patches that resolved issues that allowed drive by downloads, remote code execution (RCE), and “sandbox escape” exploits. Also included were a couple of recent ...