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Mac OS X 10.3.8 Out, Security Update Released
Richard_at_work writes "Get it while its hot, or -- if you are less brave -- wait and see if there are any issues. From the download page, the two top points of this update are 'improved OpenGL technology and updated ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers' and 'improved file sharing and directory services for mixed Mac and PC networks'. More information."
Downloaded via Software Update and running great on my dual G5 box. Works great.
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Don't know if it's just me, but my wife's dual-USB iBook stopped booting after we installed this one. It just spins the loader on startup and never gets to the login screen. Yeep!
Works fine on my Al pBook, tho.
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Although point releases are small and often have stuff i'll never use, i still get excited. Could it be i'm a mac zealot? maybe....
.05% speed increase. Much more fun that fourier transforms.
Now time to install new opengl drivers so i can play gltron in class on my ibook with
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I'm an early adopter because I initiate the download and install as soon as it came up in Software Update.
I'm a cautious observer because by the time I'm done dowloading this 28MB behemoth on my dialup connection it will have been well tested.
Is it just me, or does everything feel a bit snappier now! Amazing! Best update ever!
Had some bluetooth problems (mouse and keyboard) on first reboot, but another reboot fixed that. Everything else seems fine. iBook G4
if this fixes the problem with the Aiptek Hyperpen 8000U driver needing a system reboot everytime it gets unplugged?
another 10.3.X update, time to lose the FW HDs again
Upgraded successfully on my G4 PowerBook. No problems so far.
Of particular interest to me is this item in the list of enhancements:Addresses an issue in which a PowerBook G4 computer would, on rare occasion, wake from sleep with a black screen and not respond to any keyboard, mouse, or trackpad input.
I've been experiencing this problem on and off ever since I switched to the Mac last April, and it bugs the heck out of me. I'll unplug my laptop from my Cinema Display, take it home, flip open the lid, and nothing happens. The computer powers on -- I can hear the fan and hard drive spinning -- and the screen is lit, but it's all black. It ignores keyboard and mouse input, and I'm forced to do a hard reboot, losing any unsaved data. (It wasn't happening all the time, but at least every three weeks or so.)
I talked to an Apple "Genius" at an Apple Store about this wake-from-sleep problem, and he said I shouldn't let the PowerBook go to sleep. Instead, I should shut down the computer completely before unplugging it, then power it back up when I got home. Ah, what genius! Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I move my arm like this." Doctor: "Then don't move your arm like that." Seriously, the sleep feature is vital for most laptop users, and I can't believe the solution is not to use it.
Eventually, I discovered that if I click the Apple menu and select Sleep to do a manual sleep (as opposed to just unplugging the laptop from its display), then the frequency of the problem goes down, but it still happens. Hopefully this update will squash the bug once and for all.
As always, use Disk Utility to repair permissions before and after you update. This avoids most problems.
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Thank you APPLE!
So far, no (new) problems. Life is good.
Try unplugging the display before putting it to sleep. Make sure to wait until the screen gets back to normal as well.
For weeks and weeks and weeks I kept getting an "Insufficient privileges" error when trying to bind OS X clients to our domain. I just upgraded from 10.3.7 to 10.3.8 and I can now bind them to the domain!
AFAIK, this still isn't fixed, probably because Apple didn't know about it in time. Can anyone who has the update confirm that Safari is still vulnerable?
Me, I'm waiting on the new AlBook to get here. No point in updating the Ti when it's getting retired in a week.
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Come on, guys. *Geez* Don't you know the much joked about "default response" to any mac update when you see it?
No kinks so far after loading the update on my dual 1.8 G5 Powermac. Also seems fine on my older G3 iBook.
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Other than that, it seems to be running fine.
gotta love the fact this is actually a feature of the OS update:
Improves the performance of Blizzard World of Warcraft's "Full Screen Glow" video feature.
...and that's all there is to it.
Hey Mac heads, riddle me this, why does my software update always show the OS updates TWICE, one roughly twice as large as the other? For instance when I run software update this fine night, I see:
[] Mac OS X Update 10.3.8 27.7 MB
[] Mac OS X Update 10.3.8 16.4 MB
????? WTF is that about ???? It happens every time. I just install em both and nothing bad happens, but it is annoying. I wonder if my many tweaks to the system files have affected it (like, turning on Postfix, etc). Maybe it thinks I am running the server version or something weird.
It seems Mac OS X Finder Insecure File Creation Vulnerability isn't fixed.
The vulnerability has been confirmed in Finder version 10.3.2 on Mac OS X version 10.3.7. It's rated as 'less critical'.
I just installed in on my dual 1.8 power pc and the first thing I noticed when I rebooted was that I could hear the fans for the first time. For about 30 seconds they run at full speed and then settled down to their normal unaudiable selves.
Anyone else notice this ?
It said "windows 98 or better" so I installed Linux
Myst IV crashed on 10.3.7 for me, works with 10.3.8. Cyan said it was a problem with the graphics driver.
Isn't it rather brave to wait with installing a security update...
Where did that come from? It's a red dot that I must have downloaded from software update. My poor powerbook.
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Ah, Ellen... We miss you. There most be other products you could endorse. Or maybe your own sitcom...
(Actually, I thought Janie Porche was the real hottie among the "switcher" ad stars. She could save my Christmas any time.)
Steering back on topic... is a 10.3.x update really news? I mean, the only people who care are Mac users, and we all will see it when our automatic weekly update runs, right?
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Get a "incompatible version" error when I try to vnc back in from 2 different workstations. Guess I need to dig out the keyboard and mouse and hook the monitor back up to see what happened. Glad its only across the room.
One of my customers just installed it and now whenever she opens "an application" the fans go into overdrive mode.
Not sure what exactly she means by "an application" but this should be something to watch out for for any of you with G5 iMacs.
Well, I can sympathize with your feelings for Janie, I still can't get Momoko Kikuchi out of my mind...
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Sorry.
Whenever you go away from your computer for any reason or prior to engaging any power management mode:
File... Save.
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, START
Those permissions were probably incorrect long before you installed 10.3.8. And if they didn't hurt anything then, they're not going to now.
I think somewhere along the line a person had a bad experience with an update, repaired permissions, and things were okay. He probably posted to a message board, and people followed in believing repairing permissions is the cure to all woes.
If you want to keep believing that, it's fine with me. I repair permissions after most updates, but it's not because I believe there is a relationship between the two. The updates just serve as a reminder to do preventative maintenance that you otherwise might forget about -- and it occasionally does fix some annoying bug.
I'll definitely install 10.3.8 now. But I wonder if unplugging the DVI and doing a Detect Displays *BEFORE* sleep might be a repeatable workaround...
FWIW, I've seen variants with either a black screen (powered off) or an empty background screen (thinks it's a secondary monitor), and the following results:
So far I've had no problems ( Dual 1.6 90nm G5 ). I did experience one very small and odd bug though. For whatever reason after installing the update and rebooting the power LED never came on. I turned the machine off and back on. it seems to be working fine now.
Odd.
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Mail.app was taking up to 2m to load up, now it is back down to about 10s! So far so good. And, um, I feel a little *bigger*, but it is hot in here.
So I restart again, and yes, its true - this update has increased the boot cycle on my machine to such speeds that the actual fucking progress bar is gone. The 2nd time I thought I saw a very brief flicker of the progress pane with the bar at half but it was really fast.
My CRT monitor boots slower than my Mac. Never thought I'd see the day.
(I even timed it. From chime to login window: 25 seconds.)
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I've noticed that the fan on my 1.2GHz Powerbook G4 has been running continuously since the update, so I checked Activity Monitor for any problems. There is one: My CPU usage for my iShockII driver is ranging from 30% to over 70% while the system runs idle. All applications are running dog slow, and I imagine I will have to remove the driver until either Apple or MacAlly fixes this problem. Anyone else have this problem?
I think it's news. I checked slashdot before installing it to see if it fucked anyone over.
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The initial reboot after installing the updates (via software update) took noticable long. It was at the Apple logo for about 2 minutes. After that everything was fine.
Everything is ok Mail/iPhoto seem faster. Overall no big changes to notice, I'm still waiting on Tiger! http://www.123macmini.com/
i downloaded the delta update and updated my G4 powerbook 1.5GHz from 10.3.7... everything seemed fine, till i got back up online and started protues, instantly when the contact list apeared OSX crashed on me with the pretty lil multilang box. so i rebooted, not being to happy, tried starting protues again, same thing... after that i fucked proteus, and figured i'd check for an update, and use msn messenger for a bit. but, what do you know? bloody cracking msn did the same thing, yet another kernel panic. by this point i was starting to get pissed off... so i tried some other stuff and ran into kernel panics again, altho it was running alright for about 20 min when i wasn't using it :P...
it ended with osx being like a tower of jelly compared to dreaded winme even when it came to stability... personally i ended up with having to reinstall osx, with archive and install, cause it was way to unstable to burn anything... somewhere along that line i decided to split my hd into 2 partitions and stuff aswell... i've since burned my data, reinstalled osx, moved the /Users folder to a seperate partition and also moved the virtual memory directory to the same partition since its bigger...
i'm currently installing updates to bring it back to 10.3.7, then i'm gonna backup my system partition to a disk image just incase, and try the update once more to see whats going on...
hopefully i wont get the same kinda shit again, but with my luck you never know... lol :P
after applying 10.3.8, the first attempt to load any site fails. it's like the resolver needs at least one stab before if finds the address. mind, my bad: i use mozilla 1.6.
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