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Mac OS X 10.2.1 Released
benh57 writes "Via Software Update: 'The 10.2.1 Update delivers enhancements and improvements to the following applications, technologies and components: Mail, Image Capture, Help Viewer, graphics, printing, networking, Rendezvous, Kerberos, USB, FireWire, SCSI device compatibility and includes additional Digital Hub peripheral device support.' Full details available in the KB Article that was previously leaked (not yet back up, currently)." Also separately available via Software Update is iTunes 3.0.1.
The readme still isn't available, but Mac OS Rumors has the KB article that was previously available :
Enhancements Delivered with this update
Disc Burning Enhancements
* Improves compatibility of burned CDs with Microsoft Windows.
* Addresses a situation that could result in a failure when burning a disc using iTunes 3 and a high burn speed.
* Addresses an issue in which Disk Utility could inaccurately report "problems" when scanning a disc that was burned with iTunes or in the Finder.
* Adds support for various third-party disc burners, including: TDK VeloCD 241032FP and 241040F, MCE Technologies Lucid-24 24x10x24x Portable FireWire CDRW Drive, LaCie PocketCDRW 24x10x24 U&I, EZQuest Boa CDR/w 48x12x48 FireWire, Formac cdrw 40x10x40 and cdrw 48x10x40.
Digital Hub and Peripheral Device Enhancements
* Decreases the amount of time Final Cut Pro takes to open, and improves iMovie compatibility when a Sony DVMC-DA1 media converter is connected to the computer.
* Improves iMovie compatibility with Canopus ADVC-100 media converter. * Improves compatibility with certain (SCSI-based) scanners.
* Improves compatibility of Image Capture with Epson DS (TWAIN).
* Improves results when scanning in grayscale or black-and-white with Image Capture and Epson UI.
* Enhances reliability when hot-swapping a FireWire-based camera on certain iMacs using Final Cut Pro.
* Addresses a potential issue in which a USB keyboard or mouse is not recognized or able to wake the computer after having been connected to or disconnected from an external USB hub while the computer is in sleep.
Networking and Mail Enhancements
* Addresses a situation in which certain Internet service providers (ISPs) may not accept outgoing email (SMTP) from computers using NAT and a ".local" hostname (which may be assigned by Rendezvous).
* Addresses a situation in which, if the connection fails when transferring email to your computer via your network or an Internet connection, all mail not transferred is lost.
* Improves Mac OS X Server performance in heavy AFP client load situations.
* Improves Mac OS X Server reliability when a Mac OS 9 client attempts a scheduled AFP connection.
* Resolves a potential issue in which Mail could fail to import mail messages from Eudora as expected.
Printing Enhancements
* Addresses a potential situation in which Print Center would unexpectedly quit when using St. Claire Software's Default Folder X.
* Improves compatibility with HP LaserJet 4V and HP LaserJet 4MV printers.
* Reduces occurrences of a potential "busy; source EIO (ATALK)" alert message when printing using AppleTalk via CUPS.
* Addresses an issue when printing via CUPS in which the second queued print job would automatically start if the first print job was stopped.
* Addresses a potential "error -1" message in Print Center when adding a third-party USB printer.
* Includes various other CUPS-related printing enhancements.
Other Enhancements
* Improves potential situations in which a Web page's graphics could take an unexpectedly long time to appear in a browser window.
* Improves compatibility with Microsoft Entourage.
* Reduces likelihood of a potential "ticking hard drive" symptom that could be caused by IOAudio errors regularly being written to the system.log file.
* Addresses a potential issue in which Mac Help may not be available following an erase-installation.
* Improves compatibility of the Universal Access Zoom feature with some iBook computers.
* Addresses a potential situation in which no video may appear after waking certain iBook computers that are connected to an external display or presentation device.
* Addresses a situation in which a Classic application may fail to produce sound after waking from sleep.
* Addresses a potential situation in which AppleTalk may not be available in the Classic environment after waking from sleep.
* Addresses various potential kernel panic situations.
All movements for social change begin as missions, evolve into businesses, and end up as rackets.
Actually, Apple has been using the major.minor.teeny versioning system for a while.
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Check out this article on system 7.5.5
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=
I worked in ISP tech support during the System 7.x.x and Open Transport 1.x.x days. It was a nighmare explaining the versioning system to users... "No no no, 7.1.1 is not '7.11'. 7.1.1 is an OLDER version then 7.5.
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
I beleive it originated in MacOS 6.x. There was never a MacOS 6.1, but there were MacOS 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.5, and 6.0.8, as far as I can remember.
It was probably the most used in the 7.1 series tho. As far as I can remember, there was 7.0.0-7.0.1, 7.1.0-7.1.2, 7.5.0-7.5.5, and 7.6.0-7.6.1.
So yeah, it has nothing to do with free/open software. In fact, my Macintosh IIci, bought in 1989 for $5000 (!), came with 6.0.3.
Software Update defaults to checking weekly for an update, so a lot of people might not have found out about it for a few days at least. This update has been rumored for 2-3 days now, and I for one found out it was finally released because of this article.
/. readers except those who choose to read the Apple section.
Besides, the article is in the Apple section, so it's not bothering any
All movements for social change begin as missions, evolve into businesses, and end up as rackets.
Hey, finally the "real operating system" guy is back! Cool!
Wasn't there a System 5.0.2 or something like that? I can't find reference to it on the web. I definitely remember the 6.0.x releases, though. That was some good stuff. Mmmm... Multifinder.
I installed that puppy right away, instead of after the usual cautious waiting period, because I've been having such troubling difficulties with 10.2 (far fewer panics than 10.1.x, but a tendency for USB-connected outboard-DAC audio from iTunes to lose sync and get into a chronic stuttering mode, and uselessness of 39160-connected SCSI drives).
I haven't had a chance yet to test for the previous difficulties, but a brand-new booboo emerged when I rebooted after the upgrade: a volume I have on an ACARD 6880M (a two-disk hardware mirror) is being mounted twice. It looks (on very preliminary investigation) as if maybe one volume being seen is the mirror, and the other is one of the underlying disks of the mirror; but maybe I'm seeing both underlying disks and not the mirror. Either way, it kind of bites, and I think I'm going to have to run explicitly on a single disk until this is resolved.
Maybe it's my fault -- somewhere in there I loaded up the version 1.3 kext from ACARD in place of the (dated earlier, but numbered later) 1.4 version which came with Jagwire. Or maybe nobody ever tests mirroring, because all the kids want to do is stripe. Sigh.
Google seems to believe in System 5.0.2: http://www.google.com/search?q=mac+%22System+5%2E
cpeterso
1989 - that would be about 2 years before Linux version 0.01.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
Sometimes I want to moderate "+1 Funny -1 Troll = 0 Ironic", but I don't think that'll be added to Slash anytime soon.
I agree, and the wierd thing is, when I went into Software Update to have it check for these updates, it was off on both of the computers I just updated to 10.2. It was always on by default before with 'weekly' checking, and I didn't turn it off - so I might not have know until I saw news about it, or had I decided to check my software update at some point and realized it was disabled....
> In fact, most Windows installations are running without any updates!
Tell that to all the hapless winXP users who never turn off auto-update (on by default).
For more detail than you likely wanted, here's an archive site for MacOS: http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/syslist.html
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand". -Milton F.
I was trying to check earlier today, but the servers were down.
-- if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic - Lewis Carrol
Windows works right out of the box! In fact, most Windows installations are running without any updates!
Really? Then explain this. I installed XP to my computer.
1) Soundcard broke.
2) Created a user account that I did not have previously on my computer (has since been disabled)
3) Windows update pops up and asks me to install *VITAL* security updates. To date I have 12 windows hotfixes installed. And this computer has only been running for 3 weeks.
4) Also note that windows has decided it will no longer play nice with my router, and does not handle the DHCP rollovers.
Doesn't work out of the box for me, and this has been one of my better windows experiences. My friend's laptop will not disply his computer on the desktop (Explorer says it's there, but it's not). Lovely stuff. When my iBook comes back from the shop (nasty run in with water and a power cord) it will once again become my primary machine and I will use my PC only for the stuff that I need to do involving Maple (since it was easy enough to get off of Kazza)
T Money
World Domination with a plastic spoon since 1984
I would, but the college uses maple and sends the assignments as maple worksheets.
T Money
World Domination with a plastic spoon since 1984
You probably didn't have the Mail application at the root level of the Applications folder (/Applications/Mail.app) before installing the update. Never move Apple installed applications from their original path!
prebinding now happens at launch of the executable if it needs it so for most Apps after installing needs one launch to reprebind the functions together and it will make it faster to launch the second time.
Not very Mac-like, is it?
;>) and would still function perfectly.
I know Mac OS since system 4.3, and until those badly ported DOS/Win Apps appeared, an Application was one file that could easily be moved around (your floppy disk
Up until X that became more and more of no-no. You installed and app and better not moved any part of it afterwords.
Finally, Mac OS X reintroduced the nice one-app-is-one-file feature in the NeXTish way which I really like. But for Woz' sake, why on earth do the apps have to be in the Applications folder to be found? Apple even ships a locate db with the system, so don't tell me they wouldn't have an idea how to find their stuff after I moved it...
I installed it on my PB G4 without incident. To be specific, I was running a clean install of 9.2.2 and 10.2 and then got 10.2.1 via Software Update. So far I have observed no problems whatsoever. I checked MacFixIt and I don't see any other reported issues of this type. Yet, anyway.
Powerbook G4 (version = 11.3) w. DVD
500 mhz
384 MB RAM
boot ROM 4.1.8f5
You like your Macintosh better than me, don't you Dave? Dave? Can you hear me Dave?
Yes I can confirm it. The new mini mail app you see is an .nib file (nibs control look and feel). Mail tries to load but can't find the interface and so it crashes.
You can see this error in console.
Go to apple's web page download the update and reinstall.
How exactly would you expect to get help with that kind of limited information?
Anyway try building up to print slowly.
Uninstall all printers
install your printer via cups and print a test page
-- if it works keep going
-- if it doesn't work then drop down to lpr and lp and try from the command line. Remember to send a postscript file for testing
I've lost many many hours of productivity to getting linux to run nicely on many different machines. I hope that it's improved somewhat, however, I will be waiting for my second harddrive and then installing QNX (www.qnx.com) to play arround with that for a while. Besides, I can't get rid of XP entirely yet, because Haxial (www.haxial.com) doesn't have a linux version of KDX yet (they need I think 20 people to buy it and give them an email with the purchase that they would also like a linux version).
T Money
World Domination with a plastic spoon since 1984
Yes! A Real Operating System. Windows! Windows is cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet. There are no updates for it today! That's what I call Real Ultimate Power!!! In fact Windows is sooooo sweet I want to crap my pants.
(Just ask Mark!)
You like your Macintosh better than me, don't you Dave? Dave? Can you hear me Dave?
I had this problem too, and it was because I had moved Mail. I actually appear to have been able to correct it by hand by opening the new package under Applications and my old package that was under Applications/network, and dragging things from the new one into the old one by hand. YMMV.
Well if your desire is just to complain and not do anything about the problem I don't think you'll find /. the most sympathetic crowd. But I hate to tell you something all of Darwin is "some freeware package" you can download it for free from Apple/opendarwin including for non apple platforms (like x86). What you paid for was the pretty gui like wrapping CUPS inside of printmonitor. But make no mistake everything in your OS is utilizing low level freeware services.
My guess is that the iTunes package possibly contains the updated CD burning package for the system.
Time for some tasty Shiner Bock!