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Mac OS X v10.5.8 Ready For Download
mysqlbytes writes "Apple has posted an anticipated v10.5.8 patch for Mac OS X, updating a number of components in the operating system, one of their last updates to Leopard. The update brings improvements to Safari, Airport, Bluetooth, among others and rolls out the latest OS X security fixes." Worth glancing at are some of the security-related notes on the update.
Installed at 4:15 central. All is good so far. No noticeable differences yet.
OS X is dying. Netcraft confirms it.
Funny may not give karma, but +5 Informative never made anyone snort coffee out their nose.
Nothing much has changed as expected other than the Mobile Me iDisk icon has changed to a rather fetching blue one with a cloud on it from the old magenta one. Update took a while to complete on my 1st gen MacBook Pro.
"I have the attention span of a strobe lit goldfish, please get to the point quickly!"
January 31st, 2005, was the last day that Michael Sims, Nazi editor of Slashdot [blogspot.com], ever posted a story or indeed was ever heard from again. But what happened that day to Michael Sims? Did his embroilment in the Censorware.org conspiracy finally catch up with him? Or was he involved in a violent, and ultimately fatal, lovers' spat with his partner Jamie McCarthy? The truth, as we'll see, is much more perverse than fiction.
On New Year's Eve of 2004, the entire Slashdot staff was throwing a party to celebrate another year of Linux propaganda, homosexual recruitment, and the profits that their Microsoft ad banners had raked in for them. Eric Raymond, Emad, Roblimo, Hemos, Taco, Jamie, and Alan Cox all planned to rape Richard Stallman later in the night. Michael had shown up late, however, and was let in on the plans after they were made.
As it turned out, Jamie was to be leading the charge against the Free Software Foundation's founder and would be the first to penetrate Stallman's hairy unwashed ass. Michael, however, was jealous of this and made secret plans to thwart their nefarious venture of homosexual rape. The event was planned for zero hours, right as the ball dropped. But Michael had other ideas.
Michael suggested they all toast their plan with JÃgermeister, Eric Raymond's drink of choice that was in heavy supply that night, and the rest of the partygoers followed. While everyone downed their first shot, Michael slipped into the VA Software office's break-room, grabbing the syringe Raymond used to inject Rob Malda's semen with on the way. Michael leered at the case of JÃgermeister, needle in hand.
Minutes later, Michael reappeared in the conference room with more JÃger, ready for more shots. Over the next couple of hours they indulged in several drinking and party games, spurred on by Michael, as they drank bottle after bottle of the dark brown herbal liquor. If one were to pay special attention to Michael, however, they would note that Michael drank much less than anyone else and only from his own bottle.
Emad and Roblimo were involved in a powerful sixty-nine cheered on by Hemos and Alan whose bent geek penises throbbed near Emad's head and Roblimo's bloated ass, waiting for an opportunity. Moaning, Emad diverted his wet mouth from Roblimo's butthole and took down Hemos and Alan's cocks in quick succession. Hearing the wet, sloppy commotion behind him, Roblimo lost control and glunked all over Emad's chest.
Across the room near the podium, Eric Raymond was man-handling Rob, jamming a handgun down the back of his pants and asking him if he remembered their special night in Holland [blogspot.com]. Rob was giggling like a school girl and squirmed with all his might against the cold steel. Eric rained a shower of JÃger over Rob's head which Rob greedily tongued up even as Eric's skinny red penis entered his ass cheeks, probing for the brown prize.
The conference room was awash in gay cum and chaos, Michael noted happily as he surveyed the carnage around him. Emad had now teamed up with Alan and Hemos to rape Roblimo's ass as Rob was being pistol-whipped to orgasm by Eric, all oblivious to the massive amounts of Rohypnol they were ingesting as they drank the JÃgermeister Michael had given them. It wouldn't be much longer before the drug took effect.
Another half-hour into the night, Eric paused from raping Taco's mouth and sodomizing his anus with his Glock, short of breath. His head swam and he looked at his bottle of JÃgermeister. I can usually down six of these babies, thought Eric, wondering why he was now farting uncontrollably. Rob's nose wrinkled as Eric's rectum expelled another gallon of aerosolized feces into the air. Stooping, Eric held on to the podium for support.
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Why link only the 750 MB Combo update ? People who already have 10.5.7 don't need it, they can just get the 275 MB Update : http://support.apple.com/downloads/Mac_OS_X_10_5_8_Update
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Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM
Sure it is likely the last major update BEFORE Snow Leopard but it is certainly not the last update for leopard.
Also to the person who asked why link to the combo update as opposed to the smaller incremental: In my personal deployment experience the combo updates are much less likely to cause any problems when updating.
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I can't see any reference to the latest BIND vulnerability being fixed by Apple in the Mac OS X Server. It's vulnerable and has been fixed by other vendors so why not?
But I thought the Almighty Apple was impervious to security flaws? Isn't that what Father Jobs has been telling us?
Isn't it?
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if Leopard will have a long support life since it is the final revision to support Power PC. As an owner of a a few G5's I sure hope so.
I don't understand why they need to force their customers to update to Safari 4, i'm sure a lot of people like safari 3 just fine,
... this is 'news'....
THIS JUST IN! THERE'S A NEW VERSION TO WINAMP! GET IT NOW! ... mod me troll, fanboy... you still know this isn't newsworthy.
The guts of OSX are BSD. This was obviously a joke. It WAS funny until you retard mods got to it.
I disagree, my system is bogging heavily due to the fact that spotlight has decided to reindex my entire 2 terabyte filesystem.
Reports on macintouch corroborate this behavior.
music lover since 1969
Steve told the man himself. (click "all sizes" upper-left). It will remain "splendid" for a "long time to come". It's been 3 yrs, 5 months. As far as I figure, you never really own a Mac. If you bought one for $2800 3yrs 5months ago (41 months) that is just $68/month. That's nothing. Not even half of a milkshake -- I mean coffee per day. So, if you only paid $2800 at that date, it is as though you've been renting it for 3.5 years at $68/month and just stopped. Well, if I stopped renting something, I would not expect to be able to keep it, so you are lucky to have your PPC macs at all, including any new OS updates Apple has GRACIOUSLY allowed to put on your RENTED hardware. I would stop whining and send the mac back to Steve to recycle into magic, and just go on "renting" another 17-inch beauty starting at $2499. What-do-you-know, they even say "as low as $57.00 a month". Though at that rate um, the, uh, term might be longer than I calculated. :/
But have you seen him sing this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ta7mkgrOU
Anyone have any word on the Safari scrolling bugs? It's been a problem since 4.0 (but not with the betas), described and there.
I'll install it, but this takes a day or so to manifest usually. I didn't see anything jump out in the patch notes, but they're kind of sparse on the details anyway.
I like music
Surprised at the lack of comments, considering the patches cover arbitrary code execution due to many vulnerabilities that even arise when reading png images or xml files!
Luckily there seem to be more talented security researchers and programmers who like the Mac than there are crackers who find it worth the effort.
I still want a mac though!
10.5.7 was released just barely 2 months ago. I can't remember seeing a full point release within such a short period of time.
What's the deal? Is there something really important with this release that warrants a version update?
Oh boy oh boy can I run it on linux? huh? :)
Have you fscked your local propeller head today?
BUT! BUT! Apple told me that their system was secure by design! That it's IMPOSSIBLE to do things like that on Mac OS X! What about all those annoying, lisping people at the Mac stores who waddle around saying "We don't need virus protection!" I thought Mac was supposed to be immune to these problems because of the fundamental design. Does this mean people have LIED to me?
Everything is running without a hitch, and using the computer even feels a lot snappier!
And I haven't even installed the update yet!
YMMV, but I had no trouble using Software Update to get to 10.5.8 on a G31M-ES2L based Hackintosh.
I am confused on so many levels...
1. Every Apple OS is perfect first try. Why the need for an update?
2. Security patches. Apple has no security issues, ever. Why the need for an update?
3. Shouldn't Apple charge for this? Like they do with their other service packs.
4. Why does this not have a cute animal name?
I am so confused this morning.
I'll try anything once. Twice if it tastes good
Apple used to steer clear of throwing up unnecessary warning dialogs, but since they screwed up Safari's security with "open safe files after downloading" they don't seem to have figured out that they don't NEED to keep bugging people with warnings. They've turned "open safe files" off by default. They don't need to keep quarantining downloaded files any more.
For a while you could override the system's list of potentially unsafe content types and say "once I've downloaded a file, just effing open it", but that seems to have been broken. As a workaround I've got a folder action that goes through Downloads and removes the comp.apple.quarantine attribute when it finds it, but Finder steals focus from the running application when it triggers so it's a pain in the neck.
Where's the "I'm a bleeding adult, Apple, and I don't want to be part of your Pavlovian experiment in training people to click 'infect me now'" button?
Let me correct what, in retrospect, is probably going to prove to be unfortunate wording.
I predict that some slashtard is going to read "once I've downloaded a file, just effing open it" to mean that I want to turn on the stupid "open safe files" without a dialog. I should have written "once I've downloaded a file, just let me effing open it without whining at me". That clear?
I hope the slashtards bother to read this reply before posting. I suspect some won't.
I mean come on, what kind of troll is this? Can't you even be bothered to change some names and repost the BSD is dying troll?
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I had to try twice to get it to acknowledge the update being available for my PowerBook G4 Titanium (though it is a 14.4 Kbps cell modem connection).
Hopefully the Download Only option will work this time. My install disk is for 10.5.0 and I had to reinstall once already to a new 320 GB hard drive(*). I've been having problems with it telling me updates could not be saved (due to a sudden inability to contact the update server) and with "Install and Keep Package" not keeping the package. It's as if some updates you can't retain unless you download them directly from the Apple website and give Apple your e-mail address, and Software Update doesn't tell you which ones.
(*) Disk Utility was telling me it would not repair permissions on certain SUID programs on the original drive that it said had been modified(!) and Carbon Copy Cloner was failing to complete its copies, as was System Migration.
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i'm sticking w/10.4 because i'm supporting some g3s (clamshells 4evah;-) & don't want to deal w/2 osXes (i already have 2: fedora & osX)
but more & more apps i'd like to use require leopard...gonna eventually have 2 bite the bullet:-}
Do not install this update. It kills wireless networking on lots of MacBook pros. Oddly, the wireless works when the laptops is powered up but not when running on battery.
See the long running thread at
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2106689&tstart=0
i'm running vista on a gaming machine i built last year. no reinstalls, no bluescreens.
your fud though, could use some updating..