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Security Updates Released for Panther and Jaguar

Posted by pudge on from the what-happens-if-everyone-reboots-at-once? dept.

ZackSchil writes "Apple has released security updates for both Mac OS X 10.3.1 and, as promised, 10.2.8. The update to 10.3.1 updates OpenSSL and zlib's gzprintf() function. In addition to those updates, the 10.2.8 update contains changes to gm4, groff, Mail w/CRAM-MD5 authentication, Personal File Sharing, and QuickTime for Java. Run Software Update for more information and to install the updates."

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  1. Re:seems to work by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now if they'd only let us use 3rd party drives with their Disc-recording software in 10.3, it would be golden !!

    Not all third-party drives are reliable. I can't burn DVD-Rs with DVD Studio Pro 2 on my DVD-R/-RAM drive because the drive reports its two burn speeds as 1x and 64x (as relayed by Toast). DSP2 presumes to use the highest speed, 64x, with no control to tell it otherwise. It then hangs. I have to have DSP2 create a disk image file instead and then burn that with Toast.

    But at least I got it to run on an underpowered non-AGP Mac. (Blue & White G3 upgraded with 550 MHz G4.)

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  2. Re:seems to work by puff+the+barbarian · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It used to be (according to things that I have read on the 'net) that as long as you installed an IDE/ATA DVD recorder internally, then iDVD would use it. Is this no longer the case?

  3. Re:seems to work by for_usenet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The reason why I mentioned this is some of us would still like the choice of being able to experiment with 3rd party drives. I have the same model Toshiba DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive that Apple uses on its iBooks. However, when I installed it, all of the OS software claimed it was "unsupported." Seems like Apple used a different firmware version.

    However, using the PatchBurn software, I was able to modify some of the system files to get the drive to be recognized by all of the system software (iTunes, Disc Copy, etc). With 10.3, if the drive is no longer supported out of the box, I am SOL, at least till someone else hacks the Disc Recording Framework. I am not asking Apple to give support for all these drives, just to let us be able to try them out for ourselves, and not close up the OS entirely.

  4. Re:seems to work by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, but they don't support a significant number of drives that do not have such failures.

    Patchburn works great on Jaguar for most people. The drive descriptions file in 10.3 is xml-based instead of binary, but after editing the XML file (probably correctly) it still doesn't recognize my drive, so there must still be another step to get the OS to recognize the changes (compile it?).

    Anybody know?

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  5. Re:This just in: THE SKY DIDN'T FALL by MoneyT · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Indeed, Cnet said it was confirmed, and if you read what the guy at @stake said, he said those he spoke to did not think that Apple would. And as people quite clearly pointed out, it was an anonymous paraphrase, or IOW, nothing more than hearsay

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  6. 10.3 broke the network gui - fixed soon? by gobbo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Panther breaks the networking GUI that was pretty good in Jaguar. Now, servers you've connected to through browsing in the Finder don't show up on the desktop, and if they're an SMB share, can't be ejected without throwing your powerbook through a window, er, restarting. To get an icon on your desktop that represents a mounted server, you have to know and type in its IP address and protocol, or its precise network name --browsing doesn't work.

    The Apple Discussion boards are buzzing with this one. The GUI implementation is horribly confusing to newbies especially, but bad enough for those of us who know what smb:// or afp:// or DHCP actually is. They must be getting a ton of feedback from us aggravated types.

    Until this is fixed, no-one I know here at the university will be advised to upgrade to 10.3, despite the many juicy new features and optimization.

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    1. Re:10.3 broke the network gui - fixed soon? by gobbo · · Score: 2, Interesting

      "i went to the finder, hit cmd-K, typed in smb://myserver/share, and it instantly mounted on my desktop. i clicked the eject button in the finder's new sidebar and it unmounted just fine."

      RTFP. That's exactly what I'm talking about. You have to type in the smb address, presuming you know it (OK for me, not my newbie interns or tweedy colleagues). Then you'll get the icon showing a mounted share, and an eject button. But that isn't browsing, is it? It's a command line approach with a simple entry form, why not just use Terminal.app?

      Now try that using the Finder's GUI sidepanel... click on the Network icon, drill down to an SMB share that you want, connect, then... just try it, you'll see. Try to disconnect that smb share, if it works, you're one of the lucky ones.

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  7. OpenSSL? by dema · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I ran the update today, and it appears (naive?) that my OpenSSL was not updated. While the date seems accurate, the version is not the suggested update. I know I read somewhere yesterday (I can't find the link again today) that the fix was to update to 0.9.6j, although this is the output on my "updated" g4 with jag:

    [akira:~] dema% openssl version
    OpenSSL 0.9.6i Feb 19 2003

    Any ideas what's up with that?

  8. Safari Updated (at least on 10.3) by blb · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Note this update also brings Safari up to 1.1.1 (100.1); not sure what changed (still no mention of changes to Safari at the kbase page).