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Monday Releases Cause Crashes

Posted by pudge on from the caveat-usor dept.

The two big releases yesterday, Apple's Security Update and the DRM-canceling PlayFair, are causing problems. The Security Update appears to break cvs over pserver under some conditions (hangs for a long time, then quits with a malloc error), and ryanw writes, "according to the SF.net forum for playfair, the 'iTMS DRM stripping tool' destroys your purchased songs: the resulting files crash iTunes, the iPod, and QuickTime." Those who follow the rules -- wait a few days to install Apple's updates, and make backups of your iTMS files -- will be unaffected.

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  1. Er...ooops. by System.out.println() · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I really need to learn to wait a few days before installing things. I'm so impatient.

    Even worse, I check a dozen or so Mac sites several times daily, (yes I need a life) so I probably get every update within 8 hours or so of release, if that.

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  2. Dont know if this is related by goombah99 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I did the update and then had spinning-wheel-of-death four times in a row while trying to run an unrelated program installer and simultaneously burn a DVD. Had to do these operations sequentially to get them to work. (why was I doing both: I was simply multi-tasking my monthly maintainence chores.)

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  3. Remove Playfair? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    1. Anyone who is good at reading the install scripts - How do we "remove" playfair? (especially since it doesn't seem to get a good decoding done - the resulting files all crash whatever app tries to play them. Maybe wait a version or two...)

    2. Now this might be pretty basic, but does anyone have a favorite unix scripting tutorial so that I can learn how to script things like this to run on multiple files?

  4. Re:Hmm by Endive4Ever · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, I expected a loud FUD campaign from Apple to emerge within hours.

    Which, it appears, has happened.

    The fact that it's bundled with 'Bad News' about an Apple update release sorta 'shields' it's credibility some.

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  5. It's a real shame. by kiwioddBall · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Its a little sad that a forum that generally celebrates Apples acheivements has a whole pile of posts on how to correctly configure the tool that will easily destroy them.

    I can appreciate it from the technical point of view, but perhaps a post on what this is now going to do to Apples future fortune now that AAC is not secure is more appropriate, especially as Apples growth recently has been on the back of achievements in the audio area.