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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.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, write technology blogs.
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
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.
So far, no (new) problems. Life is good.
Apple recommends you have FW HDs unplugged during and after reinstall. It's right on the page...
As always, that advice is a load of horse hockey.
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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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No kinks so far after loading the update on my dual 1.8 G5 Powermac. Also seems fine on my older G3 iBook.
This is my post. There are many others like it. If you don't like what you read here, go try one of the others.
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.
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'.
Ignore me I found this on apple's website which would explain it.
Resolves an issue on certain Power Mac G5 computers where a fan cycles erratically at unexpected times, such as when Seti@home software is running.
It said "windows 98 or better" so I installed Linux
I believe APPLE CORP http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=257 51 instead of some 2 self acclaimed geeks and some Slashdot poster who thinks he is über cool by calling people names who only tries to help.
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Sorry for 1 line, the latest security update had better circus going on.
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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...
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.
Which is hard for me since my startup disk is on a FW HD.
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.
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.
You don't have any idea who John Gruber is, do you?
That's a rhetorical question, but if you insist on answering, the correct answer is "Someone who knows far more about Macs than you could ever hope to know if you lived until you were 1000 years old."
You, sir, are an idiot if you think repairing permissions before an OS update is doing you any good at all. You probably rebuilt your desktop and zapped the PRAM on OS 9 every week, too, didn't you?
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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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