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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."
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... even my old Dell inspiron running Win XP is snappier now that 10.4.3 is out!
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].
it's much better than those MacB's.
How we know is more important than what we know.
If you have, did it stealth update to iTunes 6?
I don't want 6, yet.
As always, The OSx86 Project does not condone piracy. Downloading these files is a crime. We have not and will not be a party to illegal activities. This information, like all our news, is to keep you up-to-date on the latest news. Please don't steal.
What a bunch of idiots. No-where on earth is it illegal to download a file. Thing is, they could make it illegal tomorrow and no-one would complain because you're all happy being criminals.
How we know is more important than what we know.
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
Q2DE Quartz 2D Extreme gets LESS support? WTF? I turned on right away, to see if it would crash. So far it is working BETTER! It would previously be unreliable.
Machine Name: Power Mac G5
Machine Model: PowerMac7,3
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (3.0)
Number Of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed: 2 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 1 GHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.2.4f1
here is probably the easiest way, since I don't know if you're using Apple's Finder or not. Path Finder (which I use instead of Apple's Finder) allows you to look at the contents of a package or app, which would be easier for this edit if you want to use the GUI all the way.
first of all, you may want to make sure you have version 2.6.1 of Pith Helmet (the latest version). then open the Terminal. paste or type this line, all on one line:
open "/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/PithHelmet.bundle/Contents/Info.plist"
(this will open the file you need to edit in the Property List Editor.)
click the triangles to expand "Root", then "SIMBLTargetApplications", and then "0".
Change "MaxBundleVersion" to "416".
it should look like this.
then hit Cmd-S to save, Cmd-Q to quit, and you're all set to use Pith Helmet. i've tested it for a bit, and so far it works perfectly.
let me know if you have any questions.
I'm confused. Is Quartz 2D Extreme a Mac OS X "Tiger" feature or not? Quartz is listed as a Tiger feature and there's a page that describes it. But 10.4.3 sounds like it disabled it.
Then again, John Siracusa at Ars Technica says it super fast, but I thought I had read it wasn't ready for 10.4.0. so is it there or not? Was it ever? Does it matter?
Insert simplistic political, ideological, or personal proselytization here.
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.
This worked just fine.. Many thanks!
One interesting thing I noticed is in the Finder's preview pane for applications. It basically lists the architectures the application is built for, the information does not appear in the 'get information' window. At this point in time, only the developers tool include the intel binaries. Maybe it was there before, but I did not notice it.
The last update of Mail broke MacGPG compatibility (fixed with an updated download from http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/). Can anyone using the update tell me whether it is affected with this update?
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using 1310 buffer headers and 1310 cluster IO buffer headers
9AppleLynx is not compatible with its superclass, 14IOFireWireLink superclass changed?
\^[[33mFailed to load extension com.apple.driver.AppleLynx.
\^[[0mCouldn't alloc class "AppleLynx"
and don't appear to have firewire. Ioreg still shows the device node, but nothing attached itself to it.
I use to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.
In Mail, I can not access the "advanced" panel of Junk Mail Preferences; nor can I edit the rules listed in the Pref Pane. :-(
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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?
Apple. It Just Works.
Your sig link is busted, FWIW...
Hope it comes back soon, if it's what i'm thinking of, it's a pretty funny picture.
Either way, just lettin' you know.
SPY
Downloading is not capable of being copyright infringement. Uploading is. That is why the No Electronic Theft act requires an exchange of infringing materials.
How we know is more important than what we know.
10.4.3 fixes the annoying bug that prevents X11 windows from raising to the top when switching apps. Dashboard is noticeably snappier.
But hey, I've only been a Mac owner for three weeks. The Finder still drives me batty.
Apple have released updates that broke Java compatibility multiple times. One uptime introduced conditions where a user's home folder could be deleted! There have been some other issues with Apple updates. They are far from a spotless record.
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The 10.4.3 description page reports "Improves the handling of Hebrew and Arabic text." I am not noticing any differences with Arabic and I'm curious what they changed. The little artifacts that are sometimes left when characters are deleted are still there. And I have often wondered why is the default font size for Arabic so teeny? I have to Cmd-+ about 5 times before the Arabic is as visible to me as the default Latin characters.
I wonder if this improved handling is tied to any particular bug reports that we can see?
There were rumors flying that this update would include an improved version of iChat that would support tabbed chats in a single window, like Adium does. Alas, no joy. I like Adium well enough, but I like the tighter integration of iChat with the rest of the OS (showing who's online in Mail.app, for instance).
Wrong.
Copyright infringement is the infringement of any of the exclusive rights of the copyright holder, per 17 USC 501. One of the exclusive rights is the right to reproduce the work in copies, per 106(1). As it happens, the courts have generally considered the reproduction of works into RAM, hard drives, etc. to qualify, and to be infringing. The MAI and Intellectual Reserve cases are examples of this.
This is too well settled for you to be able to truthfully dispute it. You can argue that it's dumb, but that doesn't mean that it's not the current law.
The only question left is whether it is criminal copyright infringement, which is a subset of copyright infringement generally. Per 506(a), copyright infringement of the reproduction sort is criminal if it is willful and either a) is for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain, or b) involves the reproduction during any 180 day period of works with a total retail value of over $1000.
Private financial gain is defined in 101 to include the "receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works." That's what the NET Act added, to cover warez trading. Presumably it isn't applicable for a mere downloader. Of course, making a copy through downloading, where you anticipate someone will return the favor by making a copy of something for you would qualify. Uploading without any receipt or expectation of receipt would not. So it's more complicated than whether data went up or down, as you seemed to think.
In any case, if the retail value of the downloaded work -- or all the downloads over the last 180 days, as your typical downloader probably downloads a lot -- is over $1000, then it is irrelevant whether or not he planned to trade warez. He's a criminal infringer anyway, if he infringed willfully.
You really ought to try reading the statutes instead of relying on just the laws that tweak them, or more likely, the sort of gossip and hearsay that most people on the net seem to believe in.
-- This and all my posts are in the public domain. I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
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.
How we know is more important than what we know.
to coincide with Safari 2.02 and, by extention, 10.4.3. Main change is that most features now do not require admin access to enable.
Can be found at http://www.lordofthecows.com/
Tinker Tool still appears to work with 10.4.3, but it's pretty safe given that it makes changes to preference files that can also be made through terminal.
Installed. Restarted and walked away. Returned to KP at the login window.
Restarted. Logged in. KP while trying to type first KP report.
Restarted. Logged in. Send in KP report. Spotlight remix kicks off and things seem OK.
Only other thing I've noticed is that the fan behavior and power supply noises seem to have reverted sorta to the way they were before the 10.3.3 update. PSU noise is more intermittent and unpredictable and the fan behavior has the aggressive responses of pre-10.3.3 but total average levels of recent versions.
My dual 2.5GHz G5 crashed after upgrading. Second time around, it booted well. Perhaps it was due to the fact that I had Q2DE turned on...
I do not agree with you.
First, the NET Act is merely a modification to title 17. No one is prosecuted under that act alone; rather they're prosecuted under the Copyright Act as a whole. As already noted, it is entirely possible to be a criminal copyright infringer without touching on the provisions added by the NET Act. Why you have such an obsession about that specific act, I cannot imagine.
In fact, even if you were to upload the work in question, I suspect that a case prosecuted under FECA (i.e. 506(a)(1)(C)) would be more likely than one prosecuted under NET (i.e. 506(a)(1)(A)).
Second, while I'd want to look at some cases involving determination of retail value in the context of criminal copyright infringement, I would not rely on the idea that x86 OSX has no retail value at all. Courts don't like infringers, as a rule, and would likely feel free to interpret this in a manner that is bad for the defendant.
-- This and all my posts are in the public domain. I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
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.
Looks like I am not the only one.
Courts don't like infringers, as a rule,
No, they prefer their corporate paymasters.
How we know is more important than what we know.
"Empathise with stupidity, and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot." - Iain M. Banks
First reboot after this update WILL BE LONG.
A lot of minutes on G5 2x1.8 (YMMW)
Just wait.
And after second reboot all will be ok.
There are some heavy things system doing during first reboot.
Don't shut it down or hard reset!
My volume and brightness keys on my 12" PowerBook don't seem to be working. Is anyone else having this problem? They used to work relatively well (if sometimes slower than I'd like).
I have this piece of trivia stuck in my head from the early days of Mac OS X, which I recall as "icons are actually windows" and that there was talk of keeping the desktop clean already back then.
Either my Google-Fu is particularly bad today, or I'm making it up, or this is a huge cover-up. Anyone got details?
J
Thanks for sharing the burden of shining the light of legal reasoning into the darkness of FUD.
Laws affecting technology will always be bad until enough techies become lawyers.
I boot my powerbook G4 in verbose mode. It seems to hang after mv'ing files...but I waited awhile and it then it continued booting.
Vote for global prefs bug
On Apple's site I found this information on Secure iChat AV:
.Mac account, even a second email under another .Mac account won't cut it.
.Mac identity key is automatically generated and all on the .Mac servers. And well, is most likely to be there regardless of which Mac you use.
.Mac iDisk connections or what not. Mayhaps other folks could play with it and send feedback for better privacy options?
http://www.mac.com/1/ichat.html
In summary:
You need a full
The Tax is a curiosity. But I wonder if it's a result of trying to balance ease of use and all that. Seeing as the
However, I could see corporations wanting the security and not wanting to allow
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
If you want encryption in iChat, use a Jabber server.
.Mac servers.
From what I can tell from the little information available (I'm not running Tiger), all this means is that Apple's supporting Jabber protocol on the
Hey, dumbass, when you download something on P2P, your downloaded chunks are shared and uploaded to others simultaneously. You ARE exchanging infringing materials.
Besides, simply downloading alone is enough to infringe. You've already been owned by other posters over this, so I leave it to them.
"Sufferin' succotash."
By the way, for those who tried the "Bezel" thing, it doesn't seem necessary (and didn't in 10.4.2). The little applescript app was not really necessary too, just press ctrl-esc when Front Row menu is there.
As a remote I use my phone + Romeo (and a simple plugin to start, map keys, quit), the only tricky thing is the fast forward that works with long cursor key down, which is not simple with a phone, could perhaps be done with some applescript.
I still prefer VLC as a player (faster, more formats) but Front Row is just perfect for music, clips, video podcast)
ClaudeBBG
Please note that I did not change /etc/ttys before or after the Update.
Got my iBook revived! (my blog)
The detailed steps is in my blog, basically, what I did was, download Mac Os X Combo using a working Mac, boot dead Mac into Target Disk Mode, apply the patch using the Combo package, reboot the dead Mac.
Yes, in fact, it does. I've got a Developer Transition Kit machine and 10.4.3 was actually released a few weeks ago (Oct 13) on the ADC site.
(posting anonymously due to NDA)
No, if this were true, they'd make it easier to get windows to open in column view by default. I adore column view, but it's a bitch to get it by default. Sure you can tell it to "open new windows in column view" - but that only works when you actually choose "New Finder window" or hit command-N, neither of which I ever do. If you open a window by double-clicking on a folder or drive, it opens in some other view - anything but column. I finally found out on the Apple discussion forums that if you hold shift when you close a window, the next time you open that particular folder or whatever it will open in whatever view you closed it in. Which is nice, but until I've closed every folder that way I still have to change stuff back to column view a lot.
Personally, I was wondering why they gave us this great new view and then made it so incredibly hard to make Finder use it.
Warning: Apple/Nintendo fangirl. Likes her electronics cute & cuddly. May be rabid.
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.
Asking out of ignorance: How is 300 items on the desktop (on Mac or Windows) any different than 300 items in any other folder? How is the desktop folder any different than any other folder as a potential drag on performance (or start up time - assuming you had a folder other than the desktop with 300 items in it open when you restart)?
"Form should follow function...unless it's just plain ugly."
I'm writing this on an update 1.2G ibook which has been updated with no problems. Try booting with no services enabled.
Google ad running down the side obscuring the text for anyone else?
Yep, and I'm not even using Safari. I just tested it, and it's doing the same thing for Safari 1.3.1 on Panther, on Camino, on Firefox/Mozilla.
Complain to the people who run the site, their HTML is broken... I suspect they only tested it on one version of Internet Explorer, ever.
No, if this were true, they'd make it easier to get windows to open in column view by default.
Finder > Preferences > General
Tick the box that says 'Open new windows in column view' and be happy.
The Desktop folder is always on screen and all items are visible. Most folders that contain 300 items only show a portion of those items at a time. If my hypothesis is correct, a folder with 300 items opened full-screen with all items showing should result in the same slowdown (or close to it -- as the desktop is a special case and might work slightly differently than a typical folder).
Did you bother to read the comment you replied to?
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Thank you.
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.
If he explores all forms and substances Straight homeward to their symbol-essences; He shall not die.
b) Have you actually tried this? As I stated in my comment, that only applies to new windows created by hitting command-N or choosing "New Window" from the file menu - neither of which I ever, ever use. When you just open a window by double-clicking on a folder or drive, it doesn't work.
Warning: Apple/Nintendo fangirl. Likes her electronics cute & cuddly. May be rabid.
there were about 340 items there, as it's both my default download folder and the place I drag images and clippings to from Safari.
Only 340? That's just one night of pr0n surfin' for me! And now I gotta put it all in a folder? Sheesh.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts...for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang
Safari is now passing all or many of the webstandards and color standard tests. Apart from passing the Acid 2 test again, which it did once back in April '05 in Panther
It also passes the International Color Consortium ICC version 4 test again, which also worked on Safari 1.3. Prior to Safari 2.0.2, Safari 2.x only passed ICC version 2 test.
Javascript speed seems a hair faster and gives Opera a good run.
Javascript benchmark
Mac Mini 1.25 GHz w/ 512MB RAM
OS___________Version _______Trial 1_________Trial 2
Mac OSX 10.3.8 Safari v1.2.4___ 85.28 seconds___86.28 seconds
Mac OSX 10.3.9 Safari v1.3____ 10.97 seconds___10.39 seconds
Mac OSX 10.4.0 Safari v2.0____ 09.48 seconds___09.30 seconds
Mac OSX 10.4.2 Safari v2.0.1___ 09.41 seconds___09.07 seconds
Mac OSX 10.4.3 Safari v2.0.2___ 08.41 seconds___08.54 seconds
iMac G5 1.8 GHz w/1GB RAM
OS___________Version _________________Trial 1_________Trial 2
Mac OSX 10.4.3 Opera 8.5__________ 07.45 seconds___07.39 seconds
Mac OSX 10.4.3 Safari 2.0.2_________ 08.51 seconds___08.79 seconds
Mac OSX 10.4.2 Opera 8.5__________ 07.31 seconds___07.88 seconds
Mac OSX 10.4.2 Safari 2.0.1_________ 09.02 seconds___09.12 seconds
Mac OSX 10.4.2 Camino 0.8.4_______ 15.13 seconds___15.33 seconds
Mac OSX 10.4.2 Firefox 1.0.7________ 21.04 seconds___20.84 seconds
Mac OSX 10.4.2 Internet Explorer 5.2.3 40.87 seconds___36.94 seconds
Mac OSX 10.4.2 Mozilla 1.7.12_______ 44.11 seconds___43.54 seconds
Mail.app 2.0.5 fixes the annoying problem with replicating new messages twice or thrice for IMAP email.
Get Info and Finder now shows Architecture the application binary runs on. Guess this will help with the transition to x86 to identify which applications are PowerPC only or Universal. I assume people aren't going to be writing exclusively for Intel X86 Mac OS X applications for a long time.
The bad:
Quartz 2D Extreme is still not part of Tiger. Hopefully it will make it in Leopard.
"Disables Quartz 2D Extreme--Quartz 2D Extreme is not a supported feature in Tiger, and re-enabling it may lead to video redraw issues or kernel panics."
If you have files with the same name it can get messy.
My first thought is the VIDEO-TS folder when using Mac the Ripper (Yes, I only use it for my own DVDs, handling DVDs on the whims of a two-year old leds itself to DVDs getting droped, scratched, etc). I'd hate to have to remember that VIDEO-TS1 is for Nemo and VIDEO-TS35 is for the best of Thomas.
Instead of "open -a TextEdit" you can "open -e" :-)
-- Tim Buchheim
er, guilty as charged, I didn't read it properly. You're quite right, it is inconsistent as it doesn't remember that you've chosen column view for that view before if you double click a folder.
Path Finder (which I use instead of Apple's Finder) allows you to look at the contents of a package or app, which would be easier for this edit if you want to use the GUI all the way.
I've never used Path Finder, but the Apple finder opens packages and apps when you control click on it and select "Show Package Contents" from the menu.
Now if anybody can tell me how to make the list view the default for the finder, I would be happy.
I KNOW it's not possible, if it was we might see less of this crap. Posted from a dual G5 Mac, if you want to mod me down for being a "fan boi," so be it..
Tired of all the isms, don't exploit people as an employer, or a government, mmmmK?
To make the finder have a default window type this is what you do. Close all Finder windows (make sure there are none minimized to the dock), set the window exactly as you want it (column view, size, etc.) and close it. That's it. New windows will open this way from now on. Enjoy.
-c
I'm running 10.4.3 on a G4/400 w/1gb RAM and 10.3.9 on a G3/400 w/800mb RAM without problems. I would have loaded Tiger on the Yosemite but I figured Dashboard and Spotlight would slow things down... and it's just a surfing & homework machine for my 9-year-old.
Personally, I've found OS X to be wonderfully compatible with older machines. My G4 is 5 years old, and the G3 is 6 years old, yet they run like a top.
10.4.3 left my G4 PBook so hosed it won't mount in target disk mode and can't be made to do anything more than display directory listings in single-user mode. Took about a day and a half of moderate usage for the system to fail, so don't assume from first impressions that everything is hunky-dory.
Keep generational backups and keep an eye on the system performance -- that's the giveaway: Finder file listings will update more and more slowly. Eventually, applications won't start when executed from the dock, and you wont' be able to restart the system.