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Mac OS X Update 10.3.1 Available
Milanek writes "Mac OS X Update 10.3.1 is available via Software Update. It includes both security updates and it should also address problems with FireWire 800 drives." Apple recommends that you update your firmware updates for your FireWire / Oxford 922 / firmware 1.02 drives, even with the fixes in 10.3.1. The update also includes fixes for printing, WebDAV, and FileVault.
TiVo writes "SecureMac is reporting that Panther's FileVault does not securely delete the files after encryption." Anyone know if this is fixed in 10.3.1?
I don't have a FireWire 800 drive nor do I use FileVault, so I doubt I'll benefit much from any of the improvements, but it's just too much not to install the latest OS X update. :)
Unfortunately, it hasn't fixed the one bug I've been experiencing so far, which is with certain pop-up menu widgets. If it has a text-entry box and a pop-up widget, the menu will pop up for a split second and then go away, even if I keep the mouse depressed. This does not happen with normal pop-up widgets.
Odd.
From my limited experience with FileVault, it securely deletes files... The problem is that it does it to files you need, when you don't ask it to. Or at least it did to me, when it nuked my entire keychain and nearly required a reinstall to repair. I have since turned it off.
/very/ hesitant to reenable filevault.
It is said that this update fixes bugs with Filevault, and I have installed it, but i am still
Besides, It would be better to enable it by folder (any folder) instead of simply the home dir. I would love to just encrypt my documents dir and leave my music available. That would make more sense, and probably speed things up as well.
This works, but it's not documented anywhere. Change your cupsd.conf to allow access from your other machines, not just localhost. Then when adding the printer on your windows box, for the location type in:
http://:631/printer/printername
It will force windows to use IPP when printing to the printer, and it works great on my network.
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This has been discussed previously on apple.slashdot. The short answer, as I remember, was yes, you can usually do one-by-one reloads of the appropriate libraries, drivers, etc., without a restart--but why would you go to that trouble? (Unless you're super-anal about your uptime.) Restarting is fast and easy.
Also, the installer doesn't force you to restart that instant; just hide it, go on working, and restart at your convenience.
"Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible" -Jacob Bronowski
oops, slashdot's filter took out the part before the :631, it should be the ip of your mac. I had it enclosed in less than/greater than signs.
http://[ip of your mac]:631/printers/printername
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Command-Option-Escape. Force quit software update once it has done the install. You can also 'kill' the process the *nix way. You can now reboot when you want, with out the nagging dialog box.
Yeah... like recently a friend with a brand new Windows XP notebook brought it round to use my DSL to download some files...
... ... Oh no, still no internet.
I plugged it into the network, and loaded up IE... *nothing*, IE reports no internet connection.
Hmm, that should'nt happen, I'll go take a look in the Internet configuration options...
Ah, there's the problem, silly XP didn't/doesn't detect it has a network now, I'll just go to the LAN settings and change them... there we go, Accept>OK.
Type in an address...
Weird says I, that should have worked. Went and ran through the Internet Connection Wizard...
Yes I want to connect to the internet via a network, Yes it's a home network, Yes I'd rather like you to find the settings automatically.
WINDOWS XP WIZARD: "Windows XP is setting up your internet configuration, please wait"
(Window with animation of computer sliding down a wire toward another computer)
Still waiting...
Still waiting...
Still waiting (now taken a few minutes
WINDOWS XP WIZARD: "The Windows Internet Configuration Wizard has now successfully set up your internet settings (I'm ever so clever)."
ME: "Joy! At last!"
WINDOWS XP WIZARD: "But first of all, Windows XP needs to restart before these new settings take effect"
FFS - this is the LATEST operating system from MS, and I am REBOOTING to get it to access the internet from a HOME NETWORK!?!?!?!?
I couldn't believe it... My PowerBook on the other hand, I took it out of the box, it was already charged, and I powered it up, and it found the (wireless) network instantly, I had internet access straight away. (And the PC was connected with CAT 5 to the Router, so it didn't even need to bother with the added complexity of wireless). Sigh... I remember XP being bad... but I really actually gave it more credit than that.
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The command for the 10.3.1 upgrade is
Now go upgrade your work machine from home, or your home machine from work... :-)
DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL
I've seen Win XP do either one at different times. Someimes it needs a restart, sometimes it doesn't. Depends on the hardware or something. Maybe when you run the Wizard it resets a lot of important stuff so a restart is needed but manually changing small things doesn't.
No matter which way you call it, it's just as, if not more sloppy than OS X's update restart thing. If I know what the security update is changing, I sometimes force quite the app that's telling me to restart and then reload ssh (or whatever component has changed) from the command line. If the uber-geeks at Slashdot would stop projecting or (if they're not blatantly trolling) start looking at problems objectively, they might gain some valuable skills.
"After patching Linux I can do X and keep my machine on!"
"Well have you tried a variation of X in Mac OS X to keep your machine up and benefit from updates? No? Why not?"
It's not possible for someone to reset your password to circumvent FileVault.
It's a symmetric encryption system and your password is being used as a key to encrypt your home directory. If somebody were to boot single user and change your user's password then login they'd just get an error because the new password couldn't unencrypt your home directory.
This release looks like it cleaned up those nasty home-directory-gets-nuked bugs and is probably pretty solid.
All editorial writers ever do is come down from the hill after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.
That's fine and good, and I see your point (assuming the XP machine was patching itself)... but at the end of the day...
He plugged in the XP laptop and it didn't want to work right away. The Mac laptop did. Now, if you are an 'average user', do you care about what's going on there? Or do you just want the damn thing to work?
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Anyone else seen this?
We see THATGUY, sitting in front of his POWERBOOK. On screen, an ICON is hopping up and down like an overcaffeinated Chihuahua. THATGUY signs heavily.
THATGUY
Oh no... it's here. 10.3.1.
(drums fingers on desk rapidly)
THATGUY
This probably fixes FileVault, and that FireWire bug.
(drums fingers)
THATGUY
And other stuff. Fuck.
In the BG, we hear audio of a CHORUS OF VOICES shouting negatives like NO DON'T DO IT, and ARE YOU INSANE and HAVE YOU NOT LEARNED YOUR LESSON? A single voice becomes louder in the din.
THATGUY
Must... update....
His FINGER reaches for the pulsating UPDATE NOW button.
ALL-POWERFUL SLASHDOT VOICE
Are you seriously going to do that? Really?
THATGUY
But I must! It'll be better... Apple is almost always bet-
APSV (BOOMING)
YOU FOOL. DON'T YOU REMEMBER THE ITUNES BUG? THE 10.2.8 DEBACLE? THE VERY BUGS WE JUST ENCOUNTERED IN PANTHER?? You have got to be the STUPIDEST L0SER EVAR!!11!!1
THATGUY
but... the Panther, she is beautiful, and I must help fix the-
APSV
IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT IF YOU LOOSE YOUR DATA
THATGUY
I have backups!
APSV (BOOMING again)
THOSE CD-RS ONLY HAVE A SHELF LIFE OF 6 YEARS YOU KNOW, SURELY YOU HAVE A WEBDAV-
As the voice is booming, THATGUY reaches and quickly clicks the UPDATE button. A stunned silence. He looks sheepish.
APSV
.....FOOL! YOUR IGNORANCE IS YOUR UNDOING. DON'T ASK ME FOR HELP WHEN YOUR DRIVE IS FSCK'D.
THATGUY Well, you wouldn't help me before, now, would you?
APSV
True. FADE OUT
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
Close the lid, instead of choosing sleep- or close the lid while it's asleep. Believe it or not, "lid open" sleep mode uses a much dimmer light.
I suppose it's possible Apple got a lot of complaints about the brighter mode(I know it was annoying as hell at night in my bedroom, felt like I was about to be abducted by aliens) and just set it to dim all the time.
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