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Panther Problem Roundup

Posted by pudge on from the halloween-black-cats-crossing-paths-mumble-mumble dept.

An anonymous reader writes "SecureMac has posted an advisory on Mac OS X 10.3 Panther's screen lock. Apparently, to a limited degree, keys being pressed before the authentication window pops-up are sent to the currently logged-in user's environment. Note: Security Update 2003-10-28 version 1.0, which was released shortly after the advisory's release, does not fix this issue, but rather a hole in QuickTime for Java." Another anonymous reader writes "A problem with Panther has been found with external FireWire drives, that causes FireWire disk partitions in Panther above 137GB to be shown as corrupt after a reboot, in most cases being entirely unaccessible and unusable." And as a public service to all you mail rebels, I found out -- for me, anyway -- how to send email under Eudora without crashing.

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  1. Some proposed new slogans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Apple: It just works... Even when you're supposed to be logged out.

    or

    Apple: It just works... Unless you want to use your 137+ GB firewire drive and plan to reboot at some point in time.

  2. Re:Wow am I glad I didnt update yet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You see this with every new Apple release. Most of the userbase is not very technical, so unrelated problems often get reported: "I installed Panther and my house burned down!" "My wife stopped putting out! I even Repaired Permissions!" "Worst OS Ever!"

    Which is not to say there aren't real problems.

  3. Re:id10t reamed us by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    but i did not troll the deputy!