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Apple Releases New Security Update
maradong writes "Apple released a new Security Update today. The 3.7 MB Update fixes problems in CUPS Printing, libxml2, Mail, and OpenSSL."
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Installed here with no problems on my 1.8 Dual.
Yes, after the installers run they typically update prebinding. From the update_prebinding man page:
update_prebinding tries to synchronize prebinding information for
libraries and executables when new files are added to a system. Prebind-
ing information is pre-calculated address information for libraries used
by a given executable or library. By pre-determining where a function in
another library is destined to be placed, the dynamic linker does not
have to resolve symbols at application startup time, and the application
can launch faster.
http://tinyurl.com/4ny52
Yep, it's updating the prebinding on applications and frameworks. Prebinding is a performance enhancement in which the addresses of symbols in shared libraries are calculated ahead of time so that the dynamic linker doesn't have to do it every time an application is launched. This can reduce application launch time by 10-30% if the application links against a lot of shared libraries. Whenever a library is changed (such as in an update like this) then the prebinding has to be redone. The Installer automatically does this for you.
Note that if you install something w/o using Apple's Installer, and the prebinding on a file isn't updated, this is no big deal. When you launch the application, the dynamic linker will notice that the prebinding is wrong and will automatically update the prebinding. The first time you launch the application it will be a little bit slower than normal, but after that the prebinding will be there and improve the launch time.
-- Tim Buchheim
yeah. it basically does the command line equivalent of
sudo upate_prebinding -root. check here for more info.
iMac 700 G4 flat panel combo drive and everything seems fine... reboot even seemed a little faster, but that's probably 'cuz I haven't rebooted in a month. ;)
iBook G3 900MHz
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Also, if you're interested in running that update prebindings command sometime to get a better idea of what it does:
sudo -u root update_prebinding -verbose -root
Password: ********
And watch it scroll away.
a good URL for cups information specific to your machine: http://localhost:631
Playfair still works for me...
The only cups update seems to be involving the addition of the option: /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file.
SystemGroup lp,admin
to the
I'm a big retard who forgot to log out of Slashdot on Mike's computer! LOOK AT ME.
Weird. Try "Update Permissions" in Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. And if that doesn't work get the 10.3.3 Combo Updater from Apple's web site. It installs just fine on top of the 10.3.3 non-combo update. Sometimes a Combo updater is more reliable, since it has all the latest bits. If after all this the system is still funky you can drop back to 10.3.2. I've found 10.3.3 a bit more sketchy than 10.3.2 but the extras are worth the occasional oddity. I just save more often. ;-)
-- thinkyhead software and media
You know, most PC technicians don't even know how to detect AppleTalk. There's a good chance that you could just turn it on and they'd never know that you'd violated a buzzword.
Two points.
One. Appletalk doesn't route on most routers by default, so if you have more than one subnet (and any company should) you're screwed.
Two. They may not detect AppleTalk but they'd detect the broadcast storms that AppleTalk creates.. and they'd be asking you if you're running some malware since you're spamming the subnet.
SteveM
This is often stated as Known Fact, but is it verifiably true? I was under the impression that each AppleTalk device sends a few small broadcast packets every N seconds, which might eat up a 230kbps Localtalk network pretty quickly, but should be negligible on 100Mbps ethernet. Especially since they generally don't cross routers, as you mention.