Mac OS X 10.4.1 Is Out

MrBadbar writes "Software Update just informed me that an update to Mac OS X (10.4.1) is now available. The updates include mail, address book, dashboard widgets, Safari, iLife, and other miscellaneous fixes. At this rate, it's only about 18 more weeks until 10.5."

Comments

Re:Installed fine here...

[skingers6894]

I installed 10.4.1 update without incident.

BUT I had a problem earlier with a grinding noise in the hard-disk area on my powerbook.

Turned out to be that the hard disk was faulty.

IDE type Hard drives have an area of space reserved for "reallocating" bad sectors. If your disk is really bad this area will fill up. When there is no more space left to reallocate to you will get a SMART error.

Click on "About this Mac", click "more info" and select your drive from the ATA section. You will see the SMART status there.

If you get this then you need to replace the drive.

I ended up replacing my drive with a 7200RPM Momentus - MAN I'm happy the old one died now!

Re:Wireless reception lower

[kegger64]

Your signal strength isn't any lower with Tiger. The AirPort signal strength indicator has actually been retooled to show, not the signal strength, but the speed of the connection. This is a change from Panther.

Re:Quartz 2D Extreme

[Yaztromo]

This update still did not enable Quartz 2D-Extreme on my system, so on a hunch, I enabled it manually, as per this hint, and wow... Really nice!

That hint enables Q2DX the hard way. The easier way is to open a terminal and paste in the following command:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver Quartz2DExtremeEnabled 1

HTH!

Yaz.

Re:SMB no change

[tyagiUK]

I had problems connecting to my Samba server running on Debian when I first installed 10.4.

It appears as though 10.4 requires the password exchange to be encrypted, so in the smb.conf file:

; encrypt passwords = false

(note the semi colon).

I used to run plaintext passwords with 10.3 for some reason. I think it was because 10.3 didn't like encrypted password exchange with Samba, but I may be mistaken (poor memory).