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Mac OS X 10.3.6 Update Available
An anonymous reader writes "Apple has released the Mac OS X 10.3.6 update via Software Update as well as their downloads page. List of improvements is available. In short, the improvements are in remote file server issues (AFP, NFS, SMB/CIFS), OpenGL, ATi and NVidia drivers, Safari, Calculator, DVD Player, Image Capture, and also previous stand-alone Security Updates. Hurry up and get the update! ... and tell us if I should go to get it, too. ;)" A Mac OS X Server update is available as well.
Hoorah, a calculator update..
tell us if I should go to get it, too.
I wouldn't want to be the submitter's psychiatrist.
this one was so good, my PC feels snappier!
Hello. I would like to discuss a neat little command line utility included in Mac OS X that doesn't get enough attention in my humble opinion. Living in /usr/bin/, this simple Open Source tool is something that I just can not live without. What is this wondrous textual utility that I'm talking about? It's none other than machine!
Included since 1991 with the 4.4BSD platform, machine gives you the processor name that your system is based on. I don't know if it works for Intel or any other architectures since when I opened up the binary in TextEdit.app and couldn't find any processor name strings. Here's an incomplete list of machine output that I do know of to help illustrate what I mean:
The cleverest aspect of machine is bringing up its manual page. I wonder who was clever enough to invent this little pun, but it makes me LOL every time I do it. Sometimes I do it just to laugh, even if I don't want to learn about machine at the moment. In case you can't guess, here is the command to bring up the manual:
omfg rorlolf
I have been accessing this program since OpenStep 4.2, then in Rhapsody DR2 and continue to use it today under Mac OS X v10.3. Kudos to NeXT and now Apple for including this Wunderwerkzeug for almost 10 years. It sure makes my Power Mac a joy to use. Check it out!
Installed it on my tibook. Don't see any problems, no major differences. Haven't heard of any other problems from any of the major sources. Don't see why you shouldn't get it.
But updates to calculator? It's a calculator, shouldn't they have at least this program perfect by now?
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Yes we know. See, we have this thing called "Software Update" that jumps up and down like a little yapper dog whenever there is an update available.
Copy & Paste is empowering, isn't it?
downloaded and installed OK. But the screen went all funny about 60-70% into disk optimization, weird vertical lines and funky colours. Hit the powerdown and restarted, started up fine and says its running 10.3.6. Otherwise everything looks good
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In what regard did Apple choose the BSD license? They chose the APSL. And this is loonies in action, not the GPL. Linux & GNU are the GPL in action.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
SIIIIIIGH.
Apple menu -> System Preferences-> Software Update. Uncheck "Check for updates", or pick from "Daily", "Weekly", or "Monthly".
"Mind-taxing time again, is it?"
Please help metamoderate.
Where is the relevance here, please? Did I miss something?
Please help metamoderate.
Anybody else have problems with NFS between Mac OS X client and Linux server over wireless but not ethernet?
That one drives me NUTS because my 80GB of MP3s are on my linux NFS server while my powerbook sits silently.
lets see if this fixes it.
Finally, maybe I can actually divide stuff by zero. I hated that bug.
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... maybe I shouldn't have launched Halo while it was optimizing. A reboot did the trick. No problems since.
WTF does this have to do with the 10.3.6 update?
Microsoft chooses BSD license on their (rare) opensource stuff, I guess he confused it...
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FlexWiki was CPL. I'm pretty sure Microsoft chooses their OSS licenses on a case-by-case basis. Keep in mind they also have their "shared source" license (I forget the specific name) that isn't OSS at all.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
MS prefers BSD license over GNU, its no big secret. Even for end users like me.
The Basic and Advanced views work for me, but the Expression Sheet, Graphing and Hexidecimal views show just brushed metal.
I'm almost entirely sure these last three views are not normally available, but some people (myself included) turned them on by moving them from the Calculator.app/Contents/Resources folder to the Calculator.app/Contents/PlugIns folder.
Unfortunately, deleting the old Expression Sheet, Graphing and Hexidecimal views in the PlugIns folder and replacing them with the new ones in the Resources folder does not fix these three additional views.
Oh well, it'd be nice to have them again, but I rarely used them and it's obvious that Apple didn't feel they were ready for prime-time.
Uh, no, they prefer to use BSD licensed software, because then they can relicense it however they want. They don't BSD license their own software.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
I like Calculator+.
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Has anyone had major issues with Diablo 2 after this update? OpenGL because almost unusable, while software mode works fine. Repair perms had no effect, and Q3A and WarCraft III work fine. This is on a first-gen 12" PB with 640 MB of RAM. --Andrew
My iMac runs as a firewall/NAT system for my WLAN, in addition to day-to-day use. Has a VNC server running over the WLAN (through an SSH tunnel, naturally), and a few Samba shares also.
;))
Installed without a hitch, and everything's intact after the restart.
I'm yet to test a couple of things (printer, bluetooth), since I need to get a new USB cable for the Mac-to-USB Hub connection. My rabbit had a field day yesterday and gnawed the old cable. D'oh.
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What's the frequency, Kenneth?
I was about 50% of the way through the install when mine died (possibly during optimisation, being in the middle of the screen the relevent was obsured by the crash message).
.dmg and installed it frmo that to be on the safe side.
I had left it alone and had turned my Bluetooth mouse on at that time to use the system and it died. After rebooting it said it was 10..3.6 but be sure I downloaded the install as a
A few people have had it crash during optimizing/install (myself included), seems to have been a dodgy update. Grr.
It's been in testing for ages too, so it must have come up.
I think the poster (or the person he copied/pasted from) just thought the phrase "man machine" was cute.
It is the name of an old Kraftwerk song after all.
As per your sig, your opinion is uninformed.
Right / Control click on the calculator.app -> show package contents.
Under resources are a number of folders ending in .calcview. Drag them into the PlugIns folder and, voila, you now have a 2D Graphing calculator, a fully blown Hexadecimal calculator, and so on, available through the View menu in Calculator.
If it still doesn't rock your boat, there are plenty of valid third party calculator applications, such as GeekCalc, WCalc and a host of others.
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this tells of many users (myself included) whose firewire drives no longer mount. system profiler sees a device, but the drive doesn't show up in the disk utility. the drive mounts fine on an older machine, so it's not damaging to the data like the original panther release was. i guess the ball's in apple's court. ~A
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Especially when some of us are paying a cool hundred a year for it... Oh wait, I forgot tax! Anyway, email is down for many, and not the first time this year... I've organized a group to complain about it here: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/dotmacstinks /
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I appreciate the info, but once I do that and then try and use one of the other views, I get a solid square rectangle.
Makes it kind of hard for me to do my calculations needed to work on my cold fusion basement project.
I have not yet installed 10.3.6 for the following reasons....
Can someone tell me if "upgrading" from 10.3.4 to 10.3.6 will break features of my Microsoft Intellimouse Optical USB driver?
I'm presently using the Intellipoint mouse driver/application version 2.1.0
When 10.3.5 came out, I saw posts that said something about 10.3.5 forced users to upgrade to the latest Intellipoint driver which in turn disabled multibutton/scroll wheel features which in turn encouraged the user to purchase a new MS mouse to get those features back. Thus I never installed 10.3.5.
Also, has Apple fixed the bug that prevents "Notify me of incoming calls while connected to the internet" from working properly? The last time this feature worked for me was in 10.2.x (and it was flakey back then too). The feature is located under the Network Pref pane/modem settings. The expected behavior is a dialog box warning of the incoming call. Im calling from a v.92 modem to a v.92 modem and I don't get a dialog box when incoming calls come into my home line.
I have no idea if this is limited to my system, nor if it is a problem with the ATI driver update or the OpenGL update, but upgrading to 10.3.6 broke the UT2k4 demo on my system. 2D stuff works fine, but the 3D intro and the in-game graphics are completely screwed up - messed up or missing polygons, screwed up lighting, etc.
Other OpenGL apps and games display just fine, so I'm not sure exactly where the problem lies. Anybody else encountering this problem with 10.3.6?
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Software Update took care of the installation without a hitch, and since it was a micro-point release, without a price as well.
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If only 10.4 ("Tiger") would go as smoothly in both departments
bc from the command line gets you a cacl/reverse polish notation calculator is dc.
hint type quit the exit the calculators..
man bc or man dc for instructions
I'm one of the lucky few who picked up the 30" Cinema Display, with the NVidia 6800 graphics card. In 10.3.5, I would get frequent kernel panics when booting, that seemed to be related to the NVidia driver. (I installed the drivers from the disk that came with the 6800).
:/ A bad backlight inverter, seemingly; hopefully it will be fixable because the monitor has NO DEAD PIXELS (out of over 4 million!!) One takes the good with the bad, I guess :-)
When this happened, I would have to remove the 6800 card, plug in my old card (ATI 9600 Pro), restart (at half-resolution on the 30"), shut down, plug in the NVidia card, and restart at half-res, which would work around the kernel panic.
Now, in 10.3.6, the system automatically switches to half-res while booting, which at least prevents the kernel panic. I hope they find a better fix though.
The kicker is that the left half of my new 30" display is about 25% dimmer than the right half.
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Hmmmm, panic'd my iBook half way through and now won't start-up. I've booted in single user mode and it looks like some of the shared libraries loginwindow uses have been trucated. Is a re-install my easiest/safest option?
Installed on the following Mac:
Dual G5 2GHz
Single G5 1.8 GHz
PowerBook G3
No problems with the install. OS responsiveness has improved somewhat. Safari seems to render pages faster now too. No apps were broken as a result of the update.
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I just upgraded my 700MHz G3 iBook from 10.3.5 to 10.3.6. Everything went smoothly, but now iTunes stops occasionally for periods of varying length when playing ogg encoded music. I'm using the Ogg Vorbis component 1.0d8 available here.
Anyone else notice this? This never happened with 10.3.5. Would it be better with the other one? Must check...