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Mac OS X 10.2.5 Update Available
jarrettwold2002 writes "ThinkSecret mentioned that 10.2.5 would be out this month; well, it's out much sooner than the usual end of the month dates that Apple loves. It might be available via Software Update later today or tomorrow, but is available for purchase on CD via the Apple Store, right now. 'The 10.2.5 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications, utilities, services, and technologies: Address Book, AirPort, AppleScript, Bluetooth, Classic compatibility, Disk Copy, Disk Utility, Finder, Help Viewer, iChat, Image Capture, IP Firewall, Kerberos, Mail, OpenGL, Print Center, Rendezvous, and Sherlock.'" The release notes are not yet available. Update: 04/10 23:09 GMT by P : It is now available via Software Update, too.
If the release notes are not done, then I wonder how well tested the release will be? Considering the past, I'll wait...
Some (Dual USB) iBook users are having battery problems with 10.2.4 -- seems 10.2.4 messes up something in the power management so that when running unplugged the machine'll run till some arbitrary level of charge remaining (from 50%-90% of capacity left) and then suddenly go into sleep. Plugging the machine in starts the battery charging from 0%. Here's hoping 10.2.5 addresses that.
I wonder if I'll finally be able to use my mac as a virtual bluetooth headset. i mean i love being able to dial, send sms messages and answer the phone from my mac but then i have to go into the other room and find my phone to actually talk to anyone. It would be much more awesome to just click answer and then speak/listen, and to be able to use the voice activatable functions in the phone etc. Then my phone can stay in its drawer where it belongs until it's walkies time.
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That would make sense to me too.
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I once worked at a place that had banned macs from the network, as the mac Novell client could login with many extra write permissions over most drives it shouldn't have been able to log in to, and could quite easily have screwed things up badly.
Of course, blaming the macs for having a 'buggy client' was the easy solution, instead of finding why the server actually allowed this to happen
The update states: Bluetooth Setup Assistant now works with certain Microsoft keyboards and mouse devices Does that mean we can use a bluetooth mouse and keyboard now? As far as I know, this was not supported before.
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It might just be me... But Software Update told me that I needed "499MB" of free space to do the installation.
.pkg (looking for the Perl script that checks such things) - to no avail.
I started cleaning out some chaff from the disk and wasn't finding enough, so I started digging around in the internals of the
So... After downloading it to the Desktop and starting it up, it tells me that I only need "163MB" of space.
Cool. On I go.
With Audigy/Extigy support rumored for some time now, is anyone able to report back on whether 10.2.5 has improved on this?
IIRC, previous versions had very basic support for the Extigy, and no support for the Audigy at all.
Linksys definitely has a problem if rogue clients can crash their APs, but Mac OS X boxes really do do some weird wifi stuff. Quite often, when my airport card is on, linux users nearby who are on their consoles see a constant stream of kernel messages about "undersized frames". If I turn off my airport, it stops. I've seen a few macs do this, with a few different linux boxes. The common factor between the linux boxes is that they all were running (or had recently been running) in RF_MON mode. In any case, it only happens sometimes, and it's definitely caused by the presence of airport-enabled macs. Quite strange.
There are a lot of oddities I'm really hoping this update will fix. Among them, the sometimes-forgetting to ask for my encrypted disk password upon waking from sleep: If it doesn't ask, the disk just hangs, and the machine has to be rebooted. I really hope thats fixed. Currently I have to remember to hdiutil detach -force disk1 (or whatever df shows the volume mounted as) before I close the lid, if I don't want to risk crashing.
I can't seem to find the standalone combo update for download yet. The update is in Software Update, but I usually like to download the 10.2.x combo updater, so I can keep it with my 10.2 disks for later use. Tried guessing links from previous updates, but no luck. Anybody got a link to the combo update yet?
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I wish they would fix the problem with printing from Adobe to Linux CUPS queues. It produces a PICT/PS format- PICT w/ embedded PS - data stream that only the OS X cups filter can handle (pictpwtops filter).
Send this to a Linux CUPS broadcast queue and it goes in the bit bucket or starts spewing garbage.
"Just Works" my derriere.
Only Apple could take an open printing system and make it proprietary.
There's a new phone on the market called P800 from sonyericsson. It's pretty cool, it does have bluetooth support (as you're aware of since 10.2.4) -but it also has these other applications called Calendar and Messages. You should check these out too. I think these two apps would go great together with iSync.
It's there now, however.