Mac OS X 10.3.8 Out, Security Update Released 166
Richard_at_work writes "Get it while its hot, or -- if you are less brave -- wait and see if there are any issues. From the download page, the two top points of this update are 'improved OpenGL technology and updated ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers' and 'improved file sharing and directory services for mixed Mac and PC networks'. More information."
No need to fear. (Score:2, Informative)
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Re:No need to fear. (Score:3, Informative)
Expose exposing the desktop with two windows open gets probably 1-2 frames per second. When I press F11, I see 1 or 2 frames before the windows disappear.
Re:No need to fear. (Score:2)
Warning: Don't do this when you have lots of windows...
Re:No need to fear. (Score:2)
But it's too bad that my Voodoo3 card is going unused.
Re:No need to fear. (Score:2)
Be careful (Score:5, Funny)
Other than that, it seems to be running fine.
Re:Be careful (Score:3, Funny)
Plus it made the second button and scrollwheel fall off my mouse!
Re:Be careful (Score:2)
Re:No need to fear. (Score:2)
2. I stated which machine I have. I guess I forgot to add "YMMV." My bad.
Take a pill and chill, ass.
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Uh oh (Score:3, Informative)
Works fine on my Al pBook, tho.
Re:Uh oh (Score:2)
Re:Uh oh (Score:4, Interesting)
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Re:Uh oh (Score:3, Interesting)
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Re:Uh oh (Score:2)
Although point releases... (Score:4, Funny)
Now time to install new opengl drivers so i can play gltron in class on my ibook with
Re:Although point releases... (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm glad they fixed this one. I've been burned by this more than a few times. Once I lost an entire Pages document because I closed my Powerbook when I went to make a sandwich.
File... Save (Score:2)
File... Save.
Early adopter and cautious observer (Score:5, Funny)
I'm a cautious observer because by the time I'm done dowloading this 28MB behemoth on my dialup connection it will have been well tested.
Snappier, for sure! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Snappier, for sure! (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Snappier, for sure! (Score:3, Informative)
It's not that Apple hasn't made speed improvements in the past; I just enjoy irony is all.
Re:Snappier, for sure! (Score:1, Informative)
To everyone else - please note the parent should be modded FUNNY.
He is playing off the comments that always appear when a Mac update comes out, that the system feels faster and more responsive.
(Why do people have to be told?)
Re:Snappier, for sure! (Score:5, Funny)
I didn't. After the upgrade, I noticed I get jokes much more quickly! My comebacks are snappier, too!
Re:Snappier, for sure! (Score:2)
Earlier Adopter (Score:4, Interesting)
here we go (Score:1, Troll)
Re:here we go (Score:2)
Ooops.
Anyone know how to get it back?
Re:here we go (Score:2)
Re:here we go (Score:4, Informative)
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This may fix an annoying problem... (Score:5, Informative)
Upgraded successfully on my G4 PowerBook. No problems so far.
Of particular interest to me is this item in the list of enhancements:Addresses an issue in which a PowerBook G4 computer would, on rare occasion, wake from sleep with a black screen and not respond to any keyboard, mouse, or trackpad input.
I've been experiencing this problem on and off ever since I switched to the Mac last April, and it bugs the heck out of me. I'll unplug my laptop from my Cinema Display, take it home, flip open the lid, and nothing happens. The computer powers on -- I can hear the fan and hard drive spinning -- and the screen is lit, but it's all black. It ignores keyboard and mouse input, and I'm forced to do a hard reboot, losing any unsaved data. (It wasn't happening all the time, but at least every three weeks or so.)
I talked to an Apple "Genius" at an Apple Store about this wake-from-sleep problem, and he said I shouldn't let the PowerBook go to sleep. Instead, I should shut down the computer completely before unplugging it, then power it back up when I got home. Ah, what genius! Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I move my arm like this." Doctor: "Then don't move your arm like that." Seriously, the sleep feature is vital for most laptop users, and I can't believe the solution is not to use it.
Eventually, I discovered that if I click the Apple menu and select Sleep to do a manual sleep (as opposed to just unplugging the laptop from its display), then the frequency of the problem goes down, but it still happens. Hopefully this update will squash the bug once and for all.
Re:This may fix an annoying problem... (Score:1)
I hope the fix works for iBooks too. I haven't lost anything important from it yet, but it is only a matter of time.
Re:This may fix an annoying problem... (Score:3, Informative)
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If you've got the "Require password to wake this computer from sleep or screensaver" option enabled, then when the lid opens and the sleep light goes out -- even though the backlight doesn't come on -- it seems like the laptop has woken up and the password dialog appeared, so try typing in your password and pressing enter (you'll have to get it right though
Re:This may fix an annoying problem... (Score:2, Informative)
I have a Powerbook 12" 1.33 and at home I usally plugged into my Dell 19" LCD via DVI. As other reader's mentioned, when I first closed the Powerbook lid and then unplugged my DVI cable and USB cable (to my USB keyboard), when I went back to work, my keyboard will be frozen even though I can still hear the fan running. At first I suspect it was the num lock on the Powerbook keyboard, then I thought it was DoubleCommand or SideTrack kernel extension. Bu
Re:This may fix an annoying problem... (Score:2)
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hope that helps
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Hm, that's interesting...I've had the same thing happen to me, with about the same frequency--but I'd get a blue screen, instead of a black. It is pretty annoying; hopefully it's fixed.
Re:This may fix an annoying problem... (Score:2)
black screen wakeup... AHA! (Score:2)
I'll definitely install 10.3.8 now. But I wonder if unplugging the DVI and doing a Detect Displays *BEFORE* sleep might be a repeatable workaround...
FWIW, I've seen variants with either a black screen (powered off) or an empty background screen (thinks it's a secondary m
Re:This may fix an annoying problem... (Score:2)
Oh, do I hear you loud and clear. Though i've not had that issue in awhile, I used to have it quite often on a certain 900mhz G3 iBook I had. The "geniuses" at the Valley Fair Apple Store in San Jose were ... less than helpful.
"That piece is supposed to be there. It's not our fault."
"But it's in the latch, and it moves around when I tilt the iBook, and it looks like someone got sloppy with a glue gun, and it was there when I bought it at this store 3 days ago."
"You're a developer? Then
Re:This may fix an annoying problem... (Score:2)
Technically, I don't think the ADC interface supports "hot-plugging,"
Actually, it was a DVI connection, not ADC. And it appears that both can handle hot-plugging, as described in this document [apple.com]. (Search for "hot-plug".)
In any case, the idea that a computer interface of the 21st century -- especially a stateless interface like video -- cannot handle hot plugging by design would be absolutely pitiful, IMHO.
Trevor
Re:This may fix an annoying problem... (Score:2)
My guess is that the video chip gets a signal when the vga input has something at the other end, but not the svideo port.
Disk Utility (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Disk Utility (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Disk Utility (Score:2)
Permissions differ on
Oh, it verifies something, all right - that you guys are talking about pure cargo-cult nonsense. Let's have a look at the file and see what's in there, shall we?
Oh, boy, I sure am glad "repair permissions" made that executable. That looks like an important script to me...
Re:Disk Utility (Score:3, Informative)
Sorry for 1 line, the latest security update had better circus going on.
Jan 31 12:17:22: Disk Utility started.
Repairing permissions for "Ilgaz"
Determining correct file permissions.
Permissions differ on
Owner and group correct
Re:Disk Utility (Score:2)
Thanks, but I'll believe my mail server before an Apple utility if believing the Apple utility means that any email sent to me bounces.
Explaining the "Repair Permissions' Phenomenon (Score:3, Insightful)
I think somewhere along the line a person had a bad experience with an update, repaired permissions, and things were okay. He probably posted to a message board, and people followed in believing repairing permissions is the cure to all woes.
If you want to keep believing that, it's fine with me. I repair permissions after most updates, but it's not because I believe
Re:Explaining the "Repair Permissions' Phenomenon (Score:2)
Repair Permissions! It's the New Rebuild Desktop!
I'm gonne write a placebo utility that just says 'optimizing' and shows a progress bar for 5 minutes, and it will be a huge hit. I don't even need to say what its optimizing.
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Re:Disk Utility (Score:2)
Haven't you heard the old saw, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it?" Same thing here. If you're having problems that the utility will fix, run it and fix 'em. If you're not, don't bother.
As far as nerves go... well, you're t
Re:Disk Utility (Score:3, Insightful)
That's a rhetorical question, but if you insist on answering, the correct answer is "Someone who knows far more about Macs than you could ever hope to know if you lived until you were 1000 years old."
You, sir, are an idiot if you think repairing permissions before an OS update is doing you any good at all. You probably rebuilt your desktop and zapped the PRAM on OS 9 every week, too, didn't you?
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Connecting to Samba a lot faster (Score:5, Informative)
So far, no (new) problems. Life is good.
Active Directory (Score:3, Interesting)
Safari IDN Vulnerability (Score:4, Interesting)
Me, I'm waiting on the new AlBook to get here. No point in updating the Ti when it's getting retired in a week.
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Re:Safari IDN Vulnerability (Score:2)
http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_idn_spoofing
It isn't patched yet.
Re:Safari IDN Vulnerability (Score:3, Interesting)
1) You must have the dev tools installed and quit Safari.
2) Show Package Contents of Safari and go to the folder Safari>Contents>Resources>English.lproj and open up the file called Browser.nib
3) Click "OK"
4) Click once on the "Go to this address" box. Be careful not to drag it anywhere.
5) Hit Open-Apple T to bring up the Font window.
6) Change it to something basic, like Courier which is fixed width and basic.
7) Save
not my fault if you break any
Re:Safari IDN Vulnerability (Score:3, Insightful)
How the hell does changing a font fix ANYTHING?
That has to be the most non-intuitive (read: how in the hell did anyone even think of doing that?) solution to any problem I've ever seen.
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Okay on G5 Powermac (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Okay on G5 Powermac (Score:2)
My dual 1.8 G5 was always quiet, with the fans rarely being audible. However, after installing the update, the fans speed up with just the slightest increase in CPU activity (e.g., running my gui-driven synchronize program).
Re:Okay on G5 Powermac (Score:2)
Re:Okay on G5 Powermac (Score:2)
Good luck. i'll be watching to see what other users have to say.
WoW (Score:5, Interesting)
Improves the performance of Blizzard World of Warcraft's "Full Screen Glow" video feature.
Re:WoW (Score:3, Interesting)
Maybe this could help bring more game development to the Mac. Sure it's just one game they've done this for, but showing a willingness to change their OS to improve a third-party developer's game seems like it would make them attractive to other game developers, too.
Re:WoW (Score:2)
Previous OS updates have addressed driver issues for Unreal Tournament 2004 as well, so it's not just one game but the big games that most gamers are likely to play.
I strongly suspect the updates are for games the Apple developers like to play. Although it could just be that ID and Blizzard report bugs to Apple, whereas other game companies have not been doing so.
Finder Insecure File Creation Vulnerability (Score:3, Informative)
The vulnerability has been confirmed in Finder version 10.3.2 on Mac OS X version 10.3.7. It's rated as 'less critical'.
Re:Finder Insecure File Creation Vulnerability (Score:2)
Myst IV Revelation works (Score:3, Informative)
Security Update (Score:4, Insightful)
Isn't it rather brave to wait with installing a security update...
Blew my vnc away (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Blew my vnc away (Score:3, Informative)
Fan Issues with G5 iMac (Score:2)
Not sure what exactly she means by "an application" but this should be something to watch out for for any of you with G5 iMacs.
Mail.app (Score:2, Insightful)
Insane (Score:3, Informative)
So I restart again, and yes, its true - this update has increased the boot cycle on my machine to such speeds that the actual fucking progress bar is gone. The 2nd time I thought I saw a very brief flicker of the progress pane with the bar at half but it was really fast.
My CRT monitor boots slower than my Mac. Never thought I'd see the day.
(I even timed it. From chime to login window: 25 seconds.)
Re:Does anyone know... (Score:2)
I wonder if the same weird device behavior is biting their drivers. If so, the fix is to force a reenumeration whenever the driver gets a timeout talking to the endpoint. I forget the details, since I haven't touched a HID driver since then, and
Re:Does anyone know... (Score:2)
Also, Photoshop CS seems to have a problem recognizing the pen. Solution: revert back to Photoshop 7, if you have it.
Re:Does anyone know... (Score:2)
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Re:Strange Fan speed (Score:2, Informative)
Ignore me I found this on apple's website which would explain it.
Resolves an issue on certain Power Mac G5 computers where a fan cycles erratically at unexpected times, such as when Seti@home software is running.
Re:why do I have to download every update TWICE? (Score:2)
Re:First Boot Slow, Afterwards A-OK (Score:2)