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Mac OS X 10.5.3 To Fix Over 200 Bugs, Coming Soon

Posted by timothy on from the in-the-meantime-use-deet dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MacScoop reports that 'Apple has seeded several builds of its Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.3 update to developers during the past few weeks and just seeded yet another one numbered "9D34" earlier today.' The update fixes over two hundred bugs, weighs almost half a gigabyte and should be available soon."

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  1. Re:Fixes by oahazmatt · · Score: 2, Funny

    Interesting. The Safari bookmark/.Mac Mail account bug is so important they fixed it twice.

    --
    Those who believe the Internet is private,
    find their privates are on the Internet.
  2. Re:Service pack 3? by sdpuppy · · Score: 5, Funny
    Ha! Back in my day we "time machined " using tar -u -g -v -f $backup_disk/$backup_dir/$backup_name up hill both ways in 10 feet of snow and we liked it! - heck our time machine had shiny knobs and dials with detailed oak scroll work not like this cheap plastic injection molded junk and and...

    hey kids, get your durn iPods off my lawn!

  3. Airport Scanning? by Tangent128 · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean a software update that masks nail clippers?

  4. Critical bug by AlpineR · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thank Jobs, they fixed this:

    Text-to-Speech and Hysterical voice no longer causes hang

    Now my business can finally make the switch to 10.5.

  5. Re:Service pack 3? by delire · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know if this will be helpful, but I found I liked the Leopard dock better after running:

    defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock
    With cryptic commands like these just to get basic functionality how can anyone expect Normal Users to migrate to the platform? This is exactly the kind of thing that happens when you let geeks design user interfaces!