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.

Comments

Archive and Install doesn't suck

[thatguywhoiam]

I agree with your post completely... with the exception of your comments about Archive and Install. This is not a head-up-ass move - it works really, really well, and is the equivalent of a clean install, without a lot of hassle. Look into it, you'll be surprised. (You do need some free room though.)

Personally I do not consider it 'advanced' to have to wipe my drive once a year, but to each his own.