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Mac OS X 10.4.3 Released
parry writes "Software Update just delivered the Mac OS X 10.4.3 update to my PowerBook.
Key changes include improved responsiveness when searching in Spotlight, Safari now passes the Acid2 test, better performance for MS-DOS formatted volumes and numerous bug fixes."
I installed it a few hours ago and everything seems about right. The only problem I've had so far is in starting up Safari:
Safari 2.0.2 (v416.12) has not been tested with the plugin PithHelmet 2.6.1 (v70). As a precaution, it has not been loaded. Please contact the plugin developer for further information.
Any ideas on getting this working?
Actually, yes... [osx86project.org].
If you have, did it stealth update to iTunes 6?
I don't want 6, yet.
OSX updates are usually pretty solid. I haven't installed this one yet, but I will before I go to bed (and therefore don't have to stop everything to reboot. I am always VERY confident to install Apple updates -- I personally haven't experienced any problems, except with Safari when it was still "beta" and that hardly counts.
Yeah, there is a chance that this update will wreak havoc, but considering how responsible Apple is about these sorts of things, I can't imagine that it would.
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Although I've had no problems with Front Row since I upgraded my Mini, there have been several reports of Front Row failing to work for those not using iMacs (shame on you, pirates! ;)) after this upgrade. Use at your own risk.
Shane
someone brought it to my attention to that you will only have the Property List Editor if you installed the Developer Tools. not to worry, if you don't have it. all you need to do is use TextEdit (or BBedit if you have it). the command for that looks like this (again, all one line):
open -a "TextEdit" "/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/PithHelmet.bundle/Contents/Info.plist"
about two-thirds of the way down, you want to change this bit:
<key>MaxBundleVersion</key>
<string>412</string>
to:
<key>MaxBundleVersion</key>
<string>416</string>
it should look like this (with the changed line highlighted in green.
again, save and quit and you should be all set. apologies for forgetting that Property List Editor requires the Developer Tools to be installed in the first post.
I administer an office of 15 macs, and I mostly share your confidence in installing Apple updates. I do, however, remember setting up a 15" Al p'book, and running software update on it right after I plugged it in. It updated from 10.3.x to 10.3.(x+1) (perhaps it was 10.3.4 or something - i don't recall) and promptly refused to restart.
My local Mac store (where I had just purchased it) informed me that OS version didn't work well on that model, so I re-installed from the system DVD and started again--fortunately there was nothing installed on it yet--and all was fine. This is the exception to hundreds of updates, however, and seems quite different than the experience that some Windows-using friends must have had to believe that one should never update the OS from the one that comes installed, 'cause it's just asking for trouble.
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He is incorrect, as downloading is capable of being copyright infringement, which can rise to the level of a crime in the United States. But you're incorrect too. You can't use a stolen property law as a substitute for a copyright law; this was settled decades ago by the Supreme Court.
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By visiting the ACID2 test and then scrolling downward in Safari using my Apple Mighty Mouse I'm able to break the ACID2 test rendering. Here is a screenshot of it. The face breaks and the better part of it scrolls across the page. I don't think this is the expected behavior, but I guess I may be wrong?
Thanks for agreeing with me. If you just download a file without uploading anything you cannot be prosecuted under the NET Act and therefore are not in violation of criminal copyright law. As this is the most extreme criminal copyright law in the world I stand by my original statement. Oh, and what we were talking about was the x86 edition of Mac OS X. This currently has no retail value as it is not available for sale.
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I got excited about iChat encryption - it'll help it move up to some of the requirements companies have for video conferencing software. But then I got this:
.Mac account to enable iChat encryption."
.Mac tax to get a feature on the core OS? For shame, Apple... for shame.
"You need to sign up for a
What the Frell? I have to pay the
Additionally, I had a major issue when I upgraded, and I wasn't alone according to the discussions on the Apple support site. All my firewire devices freaked out and wouldn't come online. Not my LaCie, not my EyeTV.
I rebooted once, after the initial 10.4.3 reboot load, and everything started behaving. But now I'm a bit scared to reboot again.
RageTech
Updated two machines simultaneously. PowerMac G5 1.8GHz single processor and iBook G4 1GHz.
The PowerMac G5 was sent for reboot after finish updating. While iBook was sent to shutdown after update completed.
Now, iBook G4 is spinning wheel at grey apple. The longest I waited was about 15 minutes before hard shutdown. I have put it into Target Disk Mode to be Verified by PowerMac G5, the filesystem is not corrupted.
I can hear the harddisk clicking in iBook which makes me salivate (I don't know why). Might have to reinstall Mac Os X Tiger. That means a chance to install some Linux on it first.
So, be warned. I'll wait for 30 minutes of spinning wheel to see whether that make any difference.
Holy crap. 340 files on your desktop?
I've been in IT for a while, and this seems to be a particular neurosis or Mac users. Inexperienced Windows users will throw everything on their desktop, but with Mac users, even many of the experienced ones do it. Everything is on their desktop, or just on the hard drive (by which I mean, not sorted at all, but in the root directory), and they never close their applications. I really don't get it. Maybe it's a hold-over from the old pre-OSX days, before Macs had a proper file structure?
Anyway, before people jump on me for being a troll, I'm a Mac user. I really like OSX a lot. I have an iPod, 2 powerbooks, and a Mac mini. But geeze, man, OSX gives you a whole home directory with a nice little Desktop/Documents/Pictures/Music breakdown-- learn to use it...
I think I found the culprit: the updated system didn't like my version of /etc/ttys (that used to work under 10.4.2). Therefore, loginwindow couldn't start. I figured that out when adding my extensions file by file...
I had /etc/ttys configured to open a LoginHook, and seems there somehow was an additional newline character.
All seems to be working fine, now. Thanks for all your suggestions.
I'd be very wary anytime I updated if I'm changing stuff in"I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away." --Jack Handy
Check this out. Google ad running down the side obscuring the text for anyone else? I've been seeing it on a lots of sites since upgrading the PB to 10.4.3. Think I'll hang on for the updated update before patching the G5.
Now THIS is what they REALLY need to fix. *sigh*
As for the rest, I sometimes forget about the need to idiot-proof (or at least, newbie-proof) things. I think the ideal solution would go something like this:
- You click a file that opens in an external program, like preview or WMP.
- You get a dialog box where the choices are "Save to..." and "Open and Store a copy in *path of temp directory*" (The temp directory shouldn't be as well-hidden as the Windows ones are. Something at the top of your home directory, for instance.
- Somehow, the computer won't let any program but Safari (perhaps this would be editable to add other web browsers) save to that directory, so if you try to save the file, it automatically makes you "Save As" and pick somewhere else to save it. I have no idea how feasible this is, but I said "ideal," now didn't I?
- Temp directory is automatically cleared out at a user-defined time or space interval (a month, or when it reaches 100 MB, for example)
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My iBook G4 is running very well. So far it's 50/50 and we do not have the numbers for a significant statistical analysis.
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