Mac OS X 10.3.6 Update Available 126
An anonymous reader writes "Apple has released the Mac OS X 10.3.6 update via Software Update as well as their downloads page. List of improvements is available. In short, the improvements are in remote file server issues (AFP, NFS, SMB/CIFS), OpenGL, ATi and NVidia drivers, Safari, Calculator, DVD Player, Image Capture, and also previous stand-alone Security Updates. Hurry up and get the update! ... and tell us if I should go to get it, too. ;)" A Mac OS X Server update is available as well.
Updates (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Updates (Score:3, Funny)
boooo
Re:Updates (Score:1)
On that joke, the CPU was bugged, not the program. And it put out something like 3.9999(lots of nines)74 or something.
Re:Updates (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Updates (Score:2)
Re:Updates (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Updates (Score:1)
Re:Updates (Score:3, Interesting)
linky [mikeindustries.com]
Re:Updates (Score:5, Informative)
Calculator+ (Score:2)
Re:Updates (Score:5, Insightful)
A practical solution would be, of course, something from the incredibly rich selection [versiontracker.com] of free alternative calculators. However, the inner nerd in me jumped on the "completely useless" part of your post. First of all, Calculator.app accepts input from standard clipboard ("command-v" for paste), so you can use any hex->dec converter, even something from equally rich selection of Unix CLI tools. Calculator.app is also AppleScriptable, so you can write yourself a simple script (and if you need hex, oct and bin - or for that matter, even know what it means - you obviously can write a simple AppleScript) to automate the conversion. Since Apple, in its infinite wisdom, has chosen NOT to include built-in conversion to AppleScript, you can use something from the not-that-rich-but-still-useful selection [macscripter.net] of hex/dec add-ons to AppleScript.
Having said all that, I agree with you that no hex input in Calculator.app is just plainly stupid, just had to let my inner nerd go, otherwise he would harrass me for ages whispering dirty things about Natalie Portman to my inner ear when I try to concentrate.
Re:Updates (Score:1)
Mostly Harmless
Re:Updates (Score:2)
> 2 2+p
16 i 10 o 3 * p
> C
Re:Updates (Score:2)
Anyway, it's just a RPN calculator. 2 2 + adds two and two and pushes four. p displays whatever's on top of the stack. [number] i sets the input radix, [number] o sets the output radix (remember that base 16 is "10" in base 16
That should help you. man dc for more details.
Uninformed opinion is right (Score:5, Informative)
As per your sig, your opinion is uninformed.
Right / Control click on the calculator.app -> show package contents.
Under resources are a number of folders ending in .calcview. Drag them into the PlugIns folder and, voila, you now have a 2D Graphing calculator, a fully blown Hexadecimal calculator, and so on, available through the View menu in Calculator.
If it still doesn't rock your boat, there are plenty of valid third party calculator applications, such as GeekCalc, WCalc and a host of others.
Re:Uninformed opinion is right (Score:1)
Thanks, but.... (Score:1)
Makes it kind of hard for me to do my calculations needed to work on my cold fusion basement project.
Re:Thanks, but.... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Thanks, but.... (Score:2)
The
Re:Thanks, but.... (Score:2)
I got the the other views to display correctly *once*. Now they don't work at all. So the poster was correct. Sorry about that.
Re:Uninformed opinion is right (Score:1)
use command line calculators (Score:2)
hint type quit the exit the calculators..
man bc or man dc for instructions
Re:Updates (Score:1)
Re:Updates (Score:1)
Woah (Score:3, Funny)
I wouldn't want to be the submitter's psychiatrist.
Re:Woah (Score:2, Funny)
Are you kidding? I would LOVE to be his psychiatrist!! Think of all those years of expensive therapy!
Re:Woah (Score:1)
If they don't see couple of guys saying "my mac won't boot anymore", they download.
Kinda mouse thing
Re:Woah (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:Woah (Score:1, Offtopic)
I updated my Powerbook (Score:3, Funny)
BAD IDEA (don't do wtf this poster suggests) (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:BAD IDEA (don't do wtf this poster suggests) (Score:1)
Why not? I just ran machine and nothing seemed to happen. Did I just commit a social faux pas?
Re:BAD IDEA (don't do wtf this poster suggests) (Score:1, Offtopic)
It's been awhile. I do remember that it's not good.
Re:BAD IDEA (don't do wtf this poster suggests) (Score:3, Insightful)
"MACHINE(1) BSD General Commands Manual MACHINE(1)
NAME
machine - print machine type
SYNOPSIS
machine
DESCRIPTION
The machine command displays the machine type.
"
Re:BAD IDEA (don't do wtf this poster suggests) (Score:2)
no it doesn't (Score:3, Insightful)
It is the name of an old Kraftwerk song after all.
Re:Machine (Score:2)
This prevents you from from having to do something stupid like open up a binary file with TextEdit.
I got it (Score:4, Informative)
But updates to calculator? It's a calculator, shouldn't they have at least this program perfect by now?
Re:I got it (Score:2, Informative)
None of the views except the Basic one work. They just show brushed metal.
Re:I got it (Score:3, Informative)
Actually, it works fine.
Both basic and advanced views display
just fine.
Some of us had more than three views (Score:3, Informative)
I'm almost entirely sure these last three views are not normally available, but some people (myself included) turned them on by moving them from the Calculator.app/Contents/Resources folder to the Calculator.app/Contents/PlugIns folder.
Unfortunately, deleting the old Expression Sheet, Graphing and Hexidecimal views in the PlugIns folder and replacing them with the new ones in the Reso
Re:Some of us had more than three views (Score:5, Informative)
It was easier to select "Get info" for the Calculator icon, and set all the checkboxes in the Plug-ins section.
I'm sorry to learn that the special views got broken. Some of them are rather useful.
Re:Some of us had more than three views (Score:2)
(Like me?)
~jeff
You'd think email would be easy too (Score:1)
Re:I got it (Score:1)
Has anyone else seen this?
Re:I got it (Score:1)
Mac OS X 10.3.6 Update Available (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Mac OS X 10.3.6 Update Available (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Mac OS X 10.3.6 Update Available (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Mac OS X 10.3.6 Update Available (Score:2)
I just dedicated a post to laughing...
heaven forbid you should change the settings (Score:2)
SIIIIIIGH.
Apple menu -> System Preferences-> Software Update. Uncheck "Check for updates", or pick from "Daily", "Weekly", or "Monthly".
"Mind-taxing time again, is it?"
Re:heaven forbid you should change the settings (Score:2, Funny)
Re:heaven forbid you should change the settings (Score:1)
Apple Menue -> Software Update..
Re:Mac OS X 10.3.6 Update Available (Score:2)
ok but.. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:ok but.. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:ok but.. (Score:1)
iBook G4
40GB
933hz 256RAM
I'll check it out, cheers
Re:ok but.. (Score:2, Funny)
Well, I can see your problem right there. You're not smart enough to own a computer.
My PowerBook crashed about half way in too (Score:4, Informative)
I had left it alone and had turned my Bluetooth mouse on at that time to use the system and it died. After rebooting it said it was 10..3.6 but be sure I downloaded the install as a
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Maintenance (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Maintenance (Score:2, Informative)
Forcing maintanance is not good. Get Anacron instead
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/un
Also I would reset PRAM after every system update.
Re:Maintenance (Score:1)
Uh, why? The OS does it itself anyways in the middle of the night; if the computer isn't on at that time the maintence tasks should be done at another time. Rescheduling them or doing it yourself achieves the same goal...
Re:Maintenance (Score:1)
Its a waste of time to force them. Saw lots of mac users doing it daily.
That 'Anacron' I referenced does it when machine is available. Especially good for laptops.
Re:Maintenance (Score:2, Informative)
That article has mostly very good advice. However, the bit about prebinding is idiotic. OS X (10.2 and up) automatically updates the prebinding of any program that on the fly which needs to be updated when that program is launched. And all versions of OS X go through and redo prebinding on everything after major updates and installs anyways.
The rest of it is a very good routine to follow before an update however, and periodically if there hasn't been an update in a while.
Re:Maintenance (Score:2)
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Re:Maintenance (Score:3, Informative)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:caclulator? (Score:2)
Now...imagine a Beowolf cluster of those and you have *viola* Windows XP with Dufus Pack 2!
Re:caclulator? (Score:3, Funny)
Crashed on install... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Crashed on install... | Crashed for me too (Score:3, Informative)
It's been in testing for ages too, so it must have come up.
Diablo II issues? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Diablo II issues? (Score:1)
Re:Diablo II issues? (Score:1)
Looks OK (Score:3, Informative)
Installed without a hitch, and everything's intact after the restart.
I'm yet to test a couple of things (printer, bluetooth), since I need to get a new USB cable for the Mac-to-USB Hub connection. My rabbit had a field day yesterday and gnawed the old cable. D'oh.
(it's true. Rabbits are evil. Especially red-eyed pure white albino freakazoids like mine. If she weren't so damn cute I'd have turned her into a tasty stew after I saw the damage
Breaks a lot of Firewire drives (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Breaks a lot of Firewire drives (Score:1)
No data loss when I pulled the driver and moved it.
chuck
Calculator 1.1 is broken (Score:3, Informative)
Microsoft Intellimouse (Score:2)
Can someone tell me if "upgrading" from 10.3.4 to 10.3.6 will break features of my Microsoft Intellimouse Optical USB driver?
I'm presently using the Intellipoint mouse driver/application version 2.1.0
When 10.3.5 came out, I saw posts that said something about 10.3.5 forced users to upgrade to the latest Intellipoint driver which in turn disabled multibutton/scroll wheel features which in turn encouraged the user to purchase a new MS mouse to ge
Re:Microsoft Intellimouse (Score:2)
However, I discovered that 10.3.6 'breaks' the process of adding a networked printer attached to a Windows box. With 10.3.6, when you browse to add a printer via Windows Networking, nothing shows up. There are workarounds, but y
Re:Microsoft Intellimouse (Score:2)
Some readers have had problems with their Microsoft Intellimouse losing its settings and behaving like a standard Apple mouse.
One reader writes "The two side button for forward and backward for browser do not work and in the intellipoint control panel the mouse icon (on the buttons panel) has a large red X. ( Intellipoint mouse 5.0)"
In this particular reader's case, and probably others', re-installing the Intellipoint 5.0 software can resolve the issue.
Re:Microsoft Intellimouse (Score:2)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/opticalm o us eblue/Install/3.1/MacOS/EN-US/IntelliPoint3.1.OSX. sit
Now the only reason I'm not going to upgrade to 10.3.5 is that it apparently wiped out some people's Entourage emails and contact data. Looks like I'm going to migrate to Mail before I upgrade.
UT2004 Problems (Score:2)
Other OpenGL apps and games display just fine, so I'm not sure exactly where the problem lies. Anybody else encountering this problem with 10.3.6?
Re:UT2004 Problems (Score:2)
Of course, I have the NVidia GeForce 5200, so you may still have an ATI driver issue, but then again maybe not. It's just the demo, reinstall and check again... you are running with the patch, right?
See boss, someone reported a problem with the system update, I just _had_ to test UT2k4 to see if there was an OpenGL problem...
Hitchless and priceless (Score:2)
If only 10.4 ("Tiger") would go as smoothly in both departments
10.3.6 Fixed Something! (NVidia/6800) (Score:5, Informative)
When this happened, I would have to remove the 6800 card, plug in my old card (ATI 9600 Pro), restart (at half-resolution on the 30"), shut down, plug in the NVidia card, and restart at half-res, which would work around the kernel panic.
Now, in 10.3.6, the system automatically switches to half-res while booting, which at least prevents the kernel panic. I hope they find a better fix though.
The kicker is that the left half of my new 30" display is about 25% dimmer than the right half.
Terminated half way through update (Score:1)
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Re:Terminated half way through update (Score:1)
10.3.6 update results (Score:2)
Dual G5 2GHz
Single G5 1.8 GHz
PowerBook G3
No problems with the install. OS responsiveness has improved somewhat. Safari seems to render pages faster now too. No apps were broken as a result of the update.
Re:Are GNU/Darwin for real? (Score:3, Insightful)
In what regard did Apple choose the BSD license? They chose the APSL. And this is loonies in action, not the GPL. Linux & GNU are the GPL in action.
Re:Are GNU/Darwin for real? (Score:1)
Re:Are GNU/Darwin for real? (Score:2)
FlexWiki was CPL. I'm pretty sure Microsoft chooses their OSS licenses on a case-by-case basis. Keep in mind they also have their "shared source" license (I forget the specific name) that isn't OSS at all.
Re:Are GNU/Darwin for real? (Score:1)
Re:Are GNU/Darwin for real? (Score:3, Informative)
agreed, but what does this have to do with 10.3.6? (Score:2)
Where is the relevance here, please? Did I miss something?
Re:Are GNU/Darwin for real? (Score:2)