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MacFixIt Details Mac OS X 10.2.8 Bugs
mneptok writes "Premier Macintosh troubleshooting site MacFixIt has just posted a detailed report on the bugs and broken features in Apple's latest point release for MacOSX. As reported previously on Slashdot, the 10.2.8 update was released and pulled within hours earlier this week. Many users upgraded before the update was pulled and are being bitten, and MacFixIt has run down the behavior you can attribute to Apple's goof."
I haven't experienced any of the problems listed in the article. The only thing that I've noticed since the upgrade was that my Keyspan USB->Serial adapter is no longer working.. which sucks when trying to configure a router :(
http://www.kottke.org/98/11/
You stole this from a comment made on a blog from 11/98. You're a retard.
Someone has released a utility to fix the problem until Apple releases the fixed update. The comments on it all seem to say it works well and takes care of things.
If the lack of virtual desktops is such a big problem, perhaps you should check out CodeTek's Virtual Desktop software. That should do what you need.
I meta-mod all positive moderation Unfair, because it's abuse of the system.
I installed the update and have had no problems. I have an iBook 700mhz, and It even took care of that annoying poping noise coming from the speaking when operating on battery power.
We've had 9 ibooks go bad since April 2003. They all needed main board replacments. The LCDs got these awful lines or would just go black. I think it's a defect or design flaw, but Apple won't admit to it. These things are 14 to 18 months old... all of them require a $600 fix. It's the last time we'll buy *any* of their i-line crap as it is CHEAP!
Head over to MacSlash for an article on how to patch OpenSSH without updating to 10.2.8 ...
Actually, there's 2 different 10.2.7s. You have "10.2.7", G5 owners have "10.2.7 (G5)".
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if you got the same issue 9 times in a row that doesnt seem to happen to anyone else.... i would evaluate what you do with your machine. kind of like how 90% of the people with hinge problems on their Ti-Books were dropping them hinge side down in their bags. i feel your pain, but something seems amiss that's not 100% Apple's issue since those 9 ibooks would span a few revisions. i know one guy that had one of the first ice-book ibooks in the Philly area and his worked 100% till he stepped on the screen recently. i know people that have had them in their bags while riding a bike and been hit by a car and they still work 100%. i know peopel that have dropped them out of bed or rolled onto them a few times in the night. they are a pretty well built machine.
Microsoft is bad enough, but I don't recall a lot of their updates causing people to need to reformat and reinstall from scratch once a month.
Are you seriously suggesting the problems in 10.2.8 are normal for Mac OS X?
Sure, every piece of software is going to have some problem with some individual's machine because people do strange things to their computers. But if memory serves, this is the first update in a long time that had to be pulled (I welcome corrections on that). I moderate OmniGroup's macosx-talk list. When more than a small number of systems have issues with a given release, I hear about it. With 10.2.8, there were problems. Usually there aren't.
Mac OS X hasn't crashed on either of my machines in 2.5 years, and from what I hear, that's not at all rare. Stability is the norm.
As for why Microsoft gets harassed more, why do you think? They sell themselves to the mainstream media as the one true software company, yet have lackluster products. It's a lot harder to say that about Apple. There's a good faith factor there that makes the difference when it comes to slashdot comments.
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