+ Undo in text fields!
+ improved pop-up window blocking
+ faster, especially on https connection
+ command-shift-arrow works properly now
+ improved javascript compatibility
All around, a great release for this browser. I was on the cusp of switching to Firefox, but undo and spelling checking in the web form text areas are the dog's bollocks!
Re:Did Copland failing actually help Apple succeed
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NeXTSTEP To Mac OS X
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· Score: 1
Correction - Cutler worked on VMS at DEC.
I understand Windows NT was named that because the initials WNT are the next-letter increment to VMS.
The syntax diagrams depicted in the poster, without all the fancy coloring were part of Niklaus Wirth's original "PASCAL - User Manual and Report" (with Kathy Jensen), published by Springer-Verlag in 1974.
Security Update 2004-05-24 delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users. This update includes the following components:
HelpViewer
712K through Software Update. No Reboot.
Problem: if you run Software Update again, it will let you run the Security Update again and again - it never figures out that it has already been installed!
Better check again, Sparky. The U.S. isn't Sweden, yet, but programs like Social Security, Medicare, Food Stamps, etc. are all socialist in nature in that they compel people who create wealth to support those who don't.
We as a country should care for and help people who need it, but in a non-Socialist country such activity would be done voluntarily by individuals and corporations, not by force of law. The U.S. is a socialist country, and you have Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt to thank for it.
Everyone seems to be focused on the specs, but for me the most important piece of text in the misbegotten graphic from the Apple Store kimono opening was the headline that preceded them:
"The world's fastest personal computer."
Now, as David Letterman likes to say, that's something.
Apple hasn't been able to claim anything like that, with anything like a straight face, in a long, long time. The implication is that there will be a convincing display of this CPU prowess, and not just Jon Rubenstein talking about the length of his pipe, either. And I would bet it will involve something other than just Photoshop.
The speed perception issue has been holding Apple and OS X back - if the developers and then the tech are convinced this hobble has been removed from the camel's back legs, it will be a huge deal.
Love - the delusion that one woman differs from another. [H.L. Mencken]
I seriously doubt this was a "strategic leak" to use the phrase from the Ginger book excerpt. When the image started hitting the web (MacRumors, Ars forums, MacMinute, iChat) Apple quickly took the entire Apple Store down in the U.S. and Canada and perhaps elsewhere. That's an expensive way to steal your own thunder - surely if they wanted to leak this information the could have found a cheaper way to do it. And this leak certainly diminishes the imact of the Monday keynote broadcast. I bet Steve Jobs popped a vein or two when he heard about it...
I hope they extend this feature so that sub-menus also have the "Open in Tabs" menu command appended to it.
For example in my "Mac" folder in my bookmarks bar I have sub-folders for Blogs, Forums, Rumors, Cocoa, Apple etc. I'd like to open these subgroups as a tab group as well.
It would also be great if this feature was available in regular bookmark groups also.
New: "Open in Tabs" item in Bookmarks Bar menus
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Safari Beta 2 Available
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· Score: 5, Informative
There's a novel new feature related to the Tabs that bears mention. If you have folder/menus in your Bookmark Bar populated with bookmarks, there's now a menu item at the bottom of that pull-down menu that says "Open in Tabs". If you select this it will create a new tab for all the bookmarks in that group of bookmarks!
This is similar to a feature in Camino that lets you set up tab groups.
What I'd like to see is the ability to save a tab group or "workspace" out to a special.webloc type file that I can use to launch a bunch of URLs from the dock, or by double clicking, etc. Maybe there's a way to do this right now?
This information was distributed on Apple's security-announce mailing list:
Mac OS X 10.2.5 is now available. It contains fixes for recent vulnerabilities in:
Apache 2.0: Fixes CAN-2003-0132, a denial of service vulnerability in Apache 2.0 versions through 2.0.44. Apache 2.0 is distributed only with Mac OS X Server, and is not enabled by default.
Directory Services: Fixes CAN-2003-0171 DirectoryServices Privilege Escalation and DoS Attack. DirectoryServices is part of the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server information services subsystem. It is launched at startup, setuid root and installed by default. It is possible for a local attacker to modify an environment variable that would allow the execution of arbitrary commands as root. Credit to Dave G. from @stake, Inc. for the discovery of this vulnerability.
File Sharing/Service: Fixes CAN-2003-0198 where the contents of the write-only DropBox folder can be revealed. When enabled, Personal File Sharing on Mac OS X or Apple File Service on Mac OS X Server, a "DropBox" folder is available by default to allow people to deposit files. This update no longer allows the permissions of the "DropBox" folder to be changed by a guest.
OpenSSL: Fixes CAN-2003-0131 Klima-Pokorny-Rosa attack on PKCS #1 v1.5 padding. The patch from the OpenSSL team, which addresses this vulnerability, is applied to Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server.
Samba: Fixes CAN-2003-0201 which could allow an anonymous user to gain remote root access due to a buffer overflow. The built-in Windows file sharing is based on the open source technology called Samba and is off by default in Mac OS X.
sendmail: Fixes CAN-2003-0161, where address parsing code in sendmail does not adequately check the length of email addresses. Only the patch from the sendmail team is applied to the currently-shipping version of sendmail in Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server.
System requirements: Mac OS X 10.2.x (Jaguar)
Mac OS X 10.2.5 may be obtained from:
Software Update pane in System Preferences
Apple's Software Downloads web site:
Updating from Mac OS X 10.2.4: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n120210
The download file is titled: MacOSXUpdate10.2.5.dmg
Its SHA-1 digest is: 1f98f9a21c3f17be823e2d63d90e534df01b3fdf
Updating from Mac OS X 10.2 through 10.2.3: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n120211
The download file is titled: MacOSXUpdateCombo10.2.5.dmg
Its SHA-1 digest is: a8ed6287d5bd0bdf67a2c0fd97b3af810f178d21
Putting more RAM in your system will delay the creation of new swap files. Swap files in and of themselves are not bad - they let you keep running when all your RAM is full, but I've found that my system performance (Pismo 500 mhz, 1 gig RAM) slows somewhat once the second swap file is created. To put it in perspective, the slowdown is less than the slowdown I experience when playing iTunes...
It seems odd that Mac OS X would resort to creating multiple swap files
It happens. The swap files are 80mb in size. One is created at system startup. As you accumulate running applications, those application's memory requirements may eventually exceed your available RAM + 80 mb, so the system starts allocating additional swap files. I find that once this happens, system performance takes a distinct hit.
In early iterations of OS X the growth of swapfiles was a one way street - once created, they would stay around. But lately the system has gotten better about getting rid of them when they aren't needed any more.
Re:Much faster -- Mails not the only thing...
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Mac OS X 10.2.4 Is Out
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· Score: 5, Interesting
I think the post-update speed bump most people percieve is due to re-starting and getting rid of their swap files. Whenever a unix system starts swapping memory out to disk it's gonna slow down. I keep an eye on the number of swap files - when it goes from one to two, I re-start machine, uptime be damned - once there's more than one swap file the system gets -s l o w- in my experience.
The easiest way to track the number of swap files is to use the "Go To Folder" command in the Finder's Go menu, and type "/var". Drag the "vm" folder to the right side of the dock (bottom if the dock is oriented vertically). Now you can click and hold on that folder in the dock and the pop up dock menu will show you the swap files. Another way is to run Memory Stick.
I was about to switch back to Eudora, which I'd been using since 1994. I gave Mail a try for the last couple of months because of the Junk mail filter, but I was starting to wonder if Eudora and Spam Sieve wouldn't give me my speedy email back. Mail was slow changing from email to email.
10.2.4 seems to have fixed the problem - much snappier performance in Mail, and NetNewsWire (going from headline to headline was sometimes sluggish.)
No problems on the update that I've noticed so far...
no where in Jobs' keynote does he give KHTML or the KDE team any credit. They way he talks, it would seem that Apple wrote this from scratch. He makes it seem that they (Apple) are responsible for the quick load times as well as the page rendering performance when KHTML should be given some credit for the work.
Seems clear that you didn't watch the keynote. Jobs specifically mentioned it was based on an open source rendering engine, and he had a slide that had "KHTML" in big bold letters when he mentioned which one it was.
Fortunately for Apple, they control a patent (#5379129) for alpha-channel blending which makes the translucency thing easy to do.
Apple has apparently donned a white-hat approach to this issue, though, offering a royalty-free license to use its method for the PNG format. I wonder if Microsoft would be granted royalty free use so that Windows XP can do translucency?
Smart of Apple to make de riguer a look that is difficult to legally clone!
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2756/ browsertest.htm
It is found in the Miscellaneous Symbols category in the Character Palette in Mac OS X.
+ Undo in text fields! + improved pop-up window blocking + faster, especially on https connection + command-shift-arrow works properly now + improved javascript compatibility All around, a great release for this browser. I was on the cusp of switching to Firefox, but undo and spelling checking in the web form text areas are the dog's bollocks!
Correction - Cutler worked on VMS at DEC.
I understand Windows NT was named that because the initials WNT are the next-letter increment to VMS.
The syntax diagrams depicted in the poster, without all the fancy coloring were part of Niklaus Wirth's original "PASCAL - User Manual and Report" (with Kathy Jensen), published by Springer-Verlag in 1974.
Security Update 2004-05-24 delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users. This update includes the following components: HelpViewer 712K through Software Update. No Reboot. Problem: if you run Software Update again, it will let you run the Security Update again and again - it never figures out that it has already been installed!
Better check again, Sparky. The U.S. isn't Sweden, yet, but programs like Social Security, Medicare, Food Stamps, etc. are all socialist in nature in that they compel people who create wealth to support those who don't. We as a country should care for and help people who need it, but in a non-Socialist country such activity would be done voluntarily by individuals and corporations, not by force of law. The U.S. is a socialist country, and you have Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt to thank for it.
Everyone seems to be focused on the specs, but for me the most important piece of text in the misbegotten graphic from the Apple Store kimono opening was the headline that preceded them:
"The world's fastest personal computer." Now, as David Letterman likes to say, that's something.
Apple hasn't been able to claim anything like that, with anything like a straight face, in a long, long time. The implication is that there will be a convincing display of this CPU prowess, and not just Jon Rubenstein talking about the length of his pipe, either. And I would bet it will involve something other than just Photoshop.
The speed perception issue has been holding Apple and OS X back - if the developers and then the tech are convinced this hobble has been removed from the camel's back legs, it will be a huge deal.
Love - the delusion that one woman differs from another. [H.L. Mencken]
I seriously doubt this was a "strategic leak" to use the phrase from the Ginger book excerpt. When the image started hitting the web (MacRumors, Ars forums, MacMinute, iChat) Apple quickly took the entire Apple Store down in the U.S. and Canada and perhaps elsewhere. That's an expensive way to steal your own thunder - surely if they wanted to leak this information the could have found a cheaper way to do it. And this leak certainly diminishes the imact of the Monday keynote broadcast. I bet Steve Jobs popped a vein or two when he heard about it...
I hope they extend this feature so that sub-menus also have the "Open in Tabs" menu command appended to it.
For example in my "Mac" folder in my bookmarks bar I have sub-folders for Blogs, Forums, Rumors, Cocoa, Apple etc. I'd like to open these subgroups as a tab group as well.
It would also be great if this feature was available in regular bookmark groups also.
There's a novel new feature related to the Tabs that bears mention. If you have folder/menus in your Bookmark Bar populated with bookmarks, there's now a menu item at the bottom of that pull-down menu that says "Open in Tabs". If you select this it will create a new tab for all the bookmarks in that group of bookmarks! This is similar to a feature in Camino that lets you set up tab groups. What I'd like to see is the ability to save a tab group or "workspace" out to a special .webloc type file that I can use to launch a bunch of URLs from the dock, or by double clicking, etc. Maybe there's a way to do this right now?
Mac OS X 10.2.5 is now available. It contains fixes for recent vulnerabilities in:
Directory Services: Fixes CAN-2003-0171 DirectoryServices Privilege Escalation and DoS Attack. DirectoryServices is part of the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server information services subsystem. It is launched at startup, setuid root and installed by default. It is possible for a local attacker to modify an environment variable that would allow the execution of arbitrary commands as root. Credit to Dave G. from @stake, Inc. for the discovery of this vulnerability.
File Sharing/Service: Fixes CAN-2003-0198 where the contents of the write-only DropBox folder can be revealed. When enabled, Personal File Sharing on Mac OS X or Apple File Service on Mac OS X Server, a "DropBox" folder is available by default to allow people to deposit files. This update no longer allows the permissions of the "DropBox" folder to be changed by a guest.
OpenSSL: Fixes CAN-2003-0131 Klima-Pokorny-Rosa attack on PKCS #1 v1.5 padding. The patch from the OpenSSL team, which addresses this vulnerability, is applied to Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server.
Samba: Fixes CAN-2003-0201 which could allow an anonymous user to gain remote root access due to a buffer overflow. The built-in Windows file sharing is based on the open source technology called Samba and is off by default in Mac OS X.
sendmail: Fixes CAN-2003-0161, where address parsing code in sendmail does not adequately check the length of email addresses. Only the patch from the sendmail team is applied to the currently-shipping version of sendmail in Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server.
System requirements: Mac OS X 10.2.x (Jaguar)
Mac OS X 10.2.5 may be obtained from:
- Software Update pane in System Preferences
- Apple's Software Downloads web site:
Information will also be posted to the Apple Product Security web site:Updating from Mac OS X 10.2.4:
http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n120210
The download file is titled: MacOSXUpdate10.2.5.dmg
Its SHA-1 digest is: 1f98f9a21c3f17be823e2d63d90e534df01b3fdf
Updating from Mac OS X 10.2 through 10.2.3:
http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n120211
The download file is titled: MacOSXUpdateCombo10.2.5.dmg
Its SHA-1 digest is: a8ed6287d5bd0bdf67a2c0fd97b3af810f178d21
http://www.apple.com/support/security/security_up
This message is signed with Apple's Product Security PGP key, and details are available at:
http://www.apple.com/support/security/security_pg
Putting more RAM in your system will delay the creation of new swap files. Swap files in and of themselves are not bad - they let you keep running when all your RAM is full, but I've found that my system performance (Pismo 500 mhz, 1 gig RAM) slows somewhat once the second swap file is created. To put it in perspective, the slowdown is less than the slowdown I experience when playing iTunes...
It happens. The swap files are 80mb in size. One is created at system startup. As you accumulate running applications, those application's memory requirements may eventually exceed your available RAM + 80 mb, so the system starts allocating additional swap files. I find that once this happens, system performance takes a distinct hit.
In early iterations of OS X the growth of swapfiles was a one way street - once created, they would stay around. But lately the system has gotten better about getting rid of them when they aren't needed any more.
The easiest way to track the number of swap files is to use the "Go To Folder" command in the Finder's Go menu, and type "/var". Drag the "vm" folder to the right side of the dock (bottom if the dock is oriented vertically). Now you can click and hold on that folder in the dock and the pop up dock menu will show you the swap files. Another way is to run Memory Stick.
10.2.4 seems to have fixed the problem - much snappier performance in Mail, and NetNewsWire (going from headline to headline was sometimes sluggish.)
No problems on the update that I've noticed so far...
file:///Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources /English.lproj/Shortcuts.html
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. [H.L. Mencken]
For the record, Texas is not the home state of Richard Cheney. He was born in Nebraska and grew up in Wyoming.
I dunno, but you deserve Corporal Punishment for that one.
Fortunately for Apple, they control a patent (#5379129) for alpha-channel blending which makes the translucency thing easy to do. Apple has apparently donned a white-hat approach to this issue, though, offering a royalty-free license to use its method for the PNG format. I wonder if Microsoft would be granted royalty free use so that Windows XP can do translucency? Smart of Apple to make de riguer a look that is difficult to legally clone!