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Panther Problem Roundup
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.
Bear in mind that this is an article about problems with Panther.
Therefore a lot of the postings here are likely to regard problematic experiences with Panther for whatever reason, and so of course Panther is going to look bad.
Its like those people that visit the Apple support discussions forum and are like "Oh no, everybody is complaining about problems, I'm never going to upgrade now!!!", where the only reason those forums are there is for people with problems so what do you expect to see...
The real number of peopleaffected by problems with Panther are probably miniscule, but that's not what the discussion groups and articles like this make it seem like, and unwary readers may be caught up in thinking that everyone will have these problems.
-Nex
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Actually, this seems to me like a much smaller storm of problems than Jaguar introduced. I remember people really ranting at it; here, we seem to have a few problems. I haven't seen any "this is all shit, everything's broken!"-type rants yet, only "this specific thing [that I really need] doesn't work."
You great big goob!
so, let me get this straight.
You replace Apple's fans with models that were much quieter. Of course you checked to see that the replacement fans moved as much air as Apple's fans right?
Then you took off Apple's heat sink, the one designed to fit their CPU card, and you..... wait, let me finish giggling...
you attached a PC CPU fan with insulated wire. I bet it was nearly as stable as the average Junk Collector's pickup truck.
Then, after you ripped out the fans that the machine was designed to use, and after you wired a fan that wasn't designed for your machine, you get all ticked that Apple won't fix your machine.
I'm laughing so hard I'm gonna piss myself.
You do know that Apple offered a free upgrade kit for your machine right? You could have simply paid the shipping and they would have sent you a new Powersupply and new fans. You even got to keep the old stuff as spares.
geez...
I'm not feeling witty so bite me
Some people use lots of applications to get thier work done. L O T S. reinstalling all my software would take a VERY LONG time. I am just waiting out the bugs then I will quietly, secretly purchase 10.3 and then........archive and install. SHHHHH...DONT TELL ANYONE!
My karma is getting better everyday.