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.

Comments

Updates

[blueday4]

Hoorah, a calculator update..

Re:Updates

[Creepy Crawler]

Now 2+2 = 4 instead of 3.999999999999999974

boooo ;P

Woah

[ravenspear]

tell us if I should go to get it, too.

I wouldn't want to be the submitter's psychiatrist.

Re:Woah

[Smurf]

tell us if I should go to get it, too.

I wouldn't want to be the submitter's psychiatrist.

Are you kidding? I would LOVE to be his psychiatrist!! Think of all those years of expensive therapy!

I updated my Powerbook

[teamhasnoi]

this one was so good, my PC feels snappier!

Machine

[Anonymous Coward]

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:

• ppc603
• ppc604
• ppc620
• ppc750
• ppc970

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:

man machine

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!

Mac OS X 10.3.6 Update Available

[skinfitz]

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.

Re:Mac OS X 10.3.6 Update Available

[ravenspear]

You know you can turn that behavior off if you want right?

Re:Mac OS X 10.3.6 Update Available

[skinfitz]

Don't start with that technical mumbo jumbo.

caclulator?

[austad]

Finally, maybe I can actually divide stuff by zero. I hated that bug.

Re:caclulator?

[commodoresloat]

Dude, this update includes 10% more Jobs Reality Distortion Field so not only can you divide by zero; you can even get the square root of -1. It still doesn't change the number of mouse buttons though; we have to wait for 10.3.7 for that.

Crashed on install...

[Lame Lane]

... maybe I shouldn't have launched Halo while it was optimizing. A reboot did the trick. No problems since.

Re:heaven forbid you should change the settings

[skinfitz]

I guess you are one of the 51%.

Re:ok but..

[Anonymous Coward]

933hz 256RAM

Well, I can see your problem right there. You're not smart enough to own a computer.