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Apple Updates Panther Via Software Update
arobase writes "Apple releases update to Panther thru Software Update. The build number changes from 7A179 to 7A202. Updates Mail, Exposé and iChat."
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Bob:
Well actually it's kinda slow today, cause most
people are still out from the 3-Day. Nazi-Youth
Rally, Hobo Slumgullion "Hooray For Everything"
Retreat they made all the soulless brain-washed
employees go on this week. Yep, it's been a
regular Bob "I'm a lazy sack of shit who's gonna
do nothing all day but stick my finger up my butt
day" here at MGM today.
And hey, speaking of Cop Porn, I'm sure that if I was Asian, "Cop Porn" would be heralded as "A dark look into the surreal inner world of a tormented soul working on the other side of the law. Chan Ferra Lee makes his directorial debut in a startling film that stars an all Amer-Asian cast filmed with a distorted lens that conveys the distorted perceptions we Asian Americans are forced to deal with on a daily basis." Bob,
go fuck yourself. And seeing as how you
have both mail and female genitalia, this will
not be such a tall order.
Bob wrote:
shouldn't you be working or something? always with the hurting, I guess I'll just sit home and watch cop porn over and over again as punishment, oh,and i don't have any fillings. btw, Willamina vouches for the craft and comedy of at least one of the directors.
eat me
On Friday, July 11, 2003 4:11 PM, Ryan wrote:
Bob:
OK, OK, its time to fess up. I admit, my
critique of the film festival was all a silly
rouse. I actually might've wanted to see
those shorts if not for the fact that I would have
to see them with you. I've...I've held my
silence about this for too long. Bob you are
unpleasant company. I would prefer hanging around the
Black Israelites in Times Square wearing a Ku
Klux Klan outfit then hang out with you. It'd
be infinitely more fun and the arguments would be more enlightening then your interminable
devil's advocate routine. Have you ever bitten down
on a piece of tin foil with one of your fillings, Bob? Well now you have some inkling as to what your
voice sounds like (except with the addition of
being kicked in the crotch with cleats while
wearing headphones blasting techno music).
And why is it that you always smell like you've
just fallen into a barrel of donkey shit? Please
answer me that? Oh please oh please oh please.
Go To Hell,
Your Mother
Bob wrote: At risk of exaserbating an already ridiculas
rant; I don't assume ANYTHING about tonights showing, they are indie pieces of film
supposedly revolving loosely around the idea
of foreign state oppression. They may suck
(and likely several will, judging from past experience) I just find it pathetic to
dismiss them on the grounds that they won't be "entertaining" or a "non-stop laff riot".
It also doesn't mean I don't indulge in
crappy mindless pop art either, just that theres plenty of room for both and that a healthy artistic diet consists of SOME things that may be more on the make-you-think/confront-your-reality side of things than the make-you-pee-your-pants- laughing side of things. The horse is complaining about too much teeth
and is requesting your skilled orafice, dick. rb
On Friday, July 11, 2003 2:07 PM, Ryan wrote: Bob, you are just as moronically elitist for assuming that just because its going to be oreign films, that they're going to be "artistic". And speaking of being a tireless patron of the arts, lest we forget this is coming from a Limp-Bizkit-listening, That 70's Show and American Idol watching, Pauly Shore movie
loving motherfucker such as yourself. Bob don't
just get off your high horse, get off it and
suck its dick, cause I know for a fact that you
would not be caught dead at this thing unless Willamina
wanted to go. Sir, I will leave you to you own
devices and beseech you thusly...
Shove It Up Your Art-Hole!
Bob wrote:
OK, got it:
non-stop fart jokes and s
So they've updated a closed developer beta that only a few thousand people have legally, and this is news?
/. a few days ago. It isn't all that important either, but at least it serves as a good followup.
If you want to talk about closed betas of Apple's upcoming updates, at least talk about the recent one that fixes the screensaver character buffer bug that got plastered all over
"The worst tyrannies were the ones where a governance required its own logic on every embedded node." - Vernor Vinge
Of course they update it via Software Update. It is, after all, their software update service. It's not even out yet. Big fuckin deal.
Has anyone noticed if this is more or less stable than the 7A179 release was ?
Are you implying that files off bittorrent aren't legal?
But hey, it's progress, right?
Overrated / Underrated : Moderation
Dear Apple:
I bought an Apple computer because of its native support for teledildonics. I bought a USB FUFME and MacOS immediately recognized it and installed drivers instantly! As a gay
Catholic priest who often can't be at the altar all the time, you can understand how the ability to have sex with children
whilst on the airplane with my Powerbook and wireless internet service is a lifesaver.
I just have a single question, will Apple be releasing a firewire version of the FUFME anytime soon?
With much gayness,
Father Michael "Arminass" Sims
Dear Father Sims
Thank you for your kind letter! Being a former Catholic priest myself, I know exactly what you are talking about! It has been
our dream at Apple Computers ever since we began in the 80's to shape the homosexual experience with the ultimate computer.
I can answer your letter by saying that YES we will indeed be making a firewire version of the FUFME. With the additional
bandwidth offered by the firewire bus, we will be able to more accurately record and deliver more minute and subtle movements
that the USB FUFME simply couldnt support due to lack of bandwidth. You will be able to recognize our firewire FUFME in stores
by the fancy holographic logo of a cock entering an Apple.
We are glad to help loyal customers such as yourself. If you ever have any more questions, feel free to drop a line (or connect
to my teledildonic FUFME server on fufme://cockman.apple.com).
Hugh G. Cockman
President
Homosexual Liaison Services
Apple Computer, Inc.
apple updates PACK YOUR FUDGE
Unless of course Apple is making a habit of submitting public updates to an as of yet unreleased beta version of their new OS.
MacTorrents.
Enjoy.
MacTorrents.
Enjoy.
I don't have Panther you insensitive-clod.
Sinner! You obtained that file illegally! /forgive me....It's REALLY early here and I need a laugh. You can do it too if you want :)
I have the new Panther and the new update was very welcome. The changes made that I have noticed are a bit more stable (hasn't unexpectedly quit anything since, versus a couple of times before). Also, one cool feature is that in mail when you type in an email that matches someone in your Addr. Book or someone in your email list then it creates a button like image (like the new icon text with bgcolors). It makes it really simple and clean!
Panther rocks. If you don't have it, please don't be bitter. Be patient, it will come.
Wow, (-1, No Sense Of Humor) for whoever modded this post.
I WANT IT! :-X
Informatus Technologicus
According to macfixit.com, the screen saver bug re. long passwords is fixed, but the other bug remains: the one which allows programs to be quit while the screen saver is on, as long as 'keyboard access' to the dock is turned on.
"He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once." - Steve Jobs on Bill Gates
Personally, I could download it, but I'll just wait until August when they release it. One of the big reasons I like Macs so much is that they just work, and installing a prerelease version of an OS while they're still tweaking it and fixing bugs means goodbye to that.
"Inflammable means flammable? What a strange country!" -Dr. Nick, The Simpsons
Does this fix the Exposé issues on the G3? I had panther, but decided it was too early to really use properly.. Also can you any of the mozilla variants?
Oh no no no no no no - yes.
"1957 brought to the silver screen his 'I Bianche Notre' adapted by Dostoyevsky, a mannered and romantic melancholy of snow and mist and moonlit encounters on canal bridges. 'Boccaccio 70' followed five years later and the following year saw 'The Leopard'!
Big props to here for transcribing one of the best Monty Python episodes, ever.So impressed was I with this motion picture treatment of the Risorgimento that I went along to Somerset House and changed me own name to Leopard, preferring it to me original handle, 'Panther' (Aargh).
I digress."
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. knowwhaddimean? knowwhaddimean?!
The update patch for this will ship in two days (7-14-03) as it is currently in QA testing. But I don't know what that has to do with 'closed betas' as it applies to current systems.
=tkk
PS Don't blame me - I submitted the patch story but it was rejected.
Bill Gates - Creationist?!?
Has anyone else noticed that the %n token in tcsh and the username field in ls (both GNU ls and BSD ls) is now limited to 8 chars?
i.e. "anonymous" is now "anonymou"
wtf? any fixes?
Has anyone found a way to manually set when the update will check? If you check manually, it sets itself forward by day/week/month according to your setting but at the current time. The problem is occasionaly I'll be surfing at an odd hour (read: 3AM Saturday), see that an update has been released, and kick off the updater. It then resets itself to check the following Saturday, 3AM. I've looked through various preference files and a couple of sites I thought might have something.
For the record, it is possible to change the time to the current time by changing the Daily/Weekly/Monthly option and changing it back. Unfortunately this resets the counter - I tried it know and even though it last checked 4 days ago it now won't check until next Sunday morning.
So if anyone has found this, or is better at looking, I'm betting I'm not the only one that would like to know. (I tried looking for files that changed today with the time I changed it, but either a) I did my search poorly or b) it's saved in a system file with other preferences that doesn't get updated immediately.) I suppose it's possible it's only saved in PRAM, but I'm not sure how to find that how - maybe someone with more Developer access could ask around.
And yes, changing the current date/time, moving the D/W/M setting, and then resetting the time would work. But that's crazy talk. I can appreciate the logic that Joe User will most likely check the first time at a time they'd normally be on, but not all of our usage schedules are that orderly. It wouldn't have hurt them to give the option of specifying it exactly, so you can check manually occasionally but not reset the automatic scheduling.
R: That voice. Where have I heard that voice before? B: In about 365 other episodes. But I don't know who it is either.
Say No More!! ;^)
So they've updated a closed developer beta that only a few thousand people have legally, and this is news?
This is news for nerds! And this dearly matters to me!
Microsoft updates Windows via Windows Update...
The story is news because they are serving up automated updates to an unreleased OS, which is kinda cool. I can see where you failed to spot the "man bites dog" angle, since you might not have been aware that "Panther" is the name for the version of OS X which is still in beta.
I'm part of the seeding program and I can guarantee you 1000% that neither Apple's Xcode nor Panther are available on the ADC or via the developer DVD - last one I just got was for July '03.
As I understand it, the *only* people that got copies of Panther, possibly besides corporate partners, were people that attended the WWDC. After watching the keynote at the Apple store in SOHO, I was bouncing off the walls for weeks trying to get a copy. But now, even tho it's avail as a torrent, it's like, meh, I'll wait. The need has worn off and I got work to do.
Its a good thing I have 10.3...
Oh, wait...
What's your point? Microsoft released updates to its preview versions of XP via Windows Update, Debian uses apt-get for its unstable branch, and you can make world (after cvsuping in the standard manner) on the development branch of FreeBSD...
this should be quickly followed up with Ask Slashdot posts ... "I am hungry, what should I eat?" and the classic Ask Slashdot: "What time is it? Are there any devices or methods of finding out what the current time is?"
The original post says Panther is available via Software Update. I just ran Software Update (running on OS X 10.2.6) and all I see is a new Security Update. Someone posted something about "closed developer version" which is not in the original post....
Can someone clearly explain how you get the upgrade from Jaguar to Panther?
Thanks.
Did you mount a military-grade, variable-focus MASER on an unlicensed artificial intelligence?
> Are you sure that these two things are related?
:-)
Well, they're correlated, anyway.
-fred
Sign #11 of Slashdot overdose: You see the phrase 'moderate Republican' and you wonder if that would be a +1 or a -1.
Bring out your dead!
I'M NOT DEAD YET!
*WACK*
Git 'im outa 'ere.
Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development. (Wilde)