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Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.2
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Just downloaded it and about to install! I can't wait! Hopefully this will fix my intermittent flash issues and random freezes.
Exactly, which probably adds to why it has never been fixed. I don't use it myself other than to check the bug still exists each update. I see it as just another aspect of the fact that Dashboard has basically been ignored since 10.4.1. Mind you, Exposé came in 10.3 and was ignored until 10.6 - mathematically Dashboard's day might come in 10.7. Sorry to go on about it.
10.6.8/10.6.9??
Thank you.
I had 157.7 MB too...finally
but strange thing my size of this update is 157.7MB..
& the update suppose to be almost 500MB or im wrong about that?
10.6.2 fixed my sound issue When I would reboot w/ 10.6.1 it would default back to internal speakers and would not stay selected on my USB sound. I have Bose Campanion 5's and the sound now works through a reboot w/out having to go to system Preferences and selecting them everytime after a reboot. Thanks 
for something that personally helped me!
When I would reboot w/ 10.6.1 it would default back to internal speakers and would not stay selected on my USB sound. I have Bose Campanion 5's and the sound now works through a reboot w/out having to go to system Preferences and selecting them everytime after a reboot. Thanks for something that personally helped me!
I'm about to install the update right now (after this post is published), did all my hw and made a backup! Wish me luck!
It seems like the update has stopped my fan from kicking on after a few minutes running flash player. YAY... that was getting annoying and my macbook got really hot.
Updated my 10.5.8 Mac Mini and my 10.6.1 MBP last night.
10.6.2 fixed the remote problems I was having with my Harmony remote since updating Plex on that machine, so that's great. Can finally watch TV like a person again
However, SL STILL hates my Logitech mouse (can't get Expose's show desktop to work from it, deleted a preference file to get Spaces working from it again, don't know how long it will last), but most maddeningly, Show Desktop WORKED yesterday from my mouse right after the upgrade. C'mon Apple, help a brother out!
Plus SL still hates my Japanese keyboard. The input selector bezel seems to greatly dislike the keys dedicated to switching input. I am tempted to buy an U.S. wireless Apple keyboard, but I am hesitant to give Apple more money because my keyboard, which works under 10.5 and Windows and which I like, isn't working right under SL. Sometimes pressing the key will call up the input bezel, which often doesn't even know which is the input I am currently on! Sometimes it works as normal.
I've only been through a few OS X upgrades 10.4 to 10.5 and now up to SL, but this has been the worst OS X upgrade and one of the worst OS upgrades I have ever been through. In the short term, I am too wedded to Apple to move, but I have seriously thought about moving my MBP back to 10.5.8. In the long term, it makes me worry about every frickin' upgrade. Even if I wait to upgrade (which I did going from Leopard to SL), stuff like my keyboard issues aren't well documented on the web so I can't even make an informed decision.
10.6.2 fixed the remote problems I was having with my Harmony remote since updating Plex on that machine, so that's great. Can finally watch TV like a person again
However, SL STILL hates my Logitech mouse (can't get Expose's show desktop to work from it, deleted a preference file to get Spaces working from it again, don't know how long it will last), but most maddeningly, Show Desktop WORKED yesterday from my mouse right after the upgrade. C'mon Apple, help a brother out!
Plus SL still hates my Japanese keyboard. The input selector bezel seems to greatly dislike the keys dedicated to switching input. I am tempted to buy an U.S. wireless Apple keyboard, but I am hesitant to give Apple more money because my keyboard, which works under 10.5 and Windows and which I like, isn't working right under SL. Sometimes pressing the key will call up the input bezel, which often doesn't even know which is the input I am currently on! Sometimes it works as normal.
I've only been through a few OS X upgrades 10.4 to 10.5 and now up to SL, but this has been the worst OS X upgrade and one of the worst OS upgrades I have ever been through. In the short term, I am too wedded to Apple to move, but I have seriously thought about moving my MBP back to 10.5.8. In the long term, it makes me worry about every frickin' upgrade. Even if I wait to upgrade (which I did going from Leopard to SL), stuff like my keyboard issues aren't well documented on the web so I can't even make an informed decision.
Yeh, you've got to love having your own dedicated fibre optic cable to your home.
I have the same scrolling problems with my MPB 13". iPhoto '08 does not have this. MC
Huh. I noticed this in message list in 10.6.1-- the blue background behind my threaded messages would get all funky. Looks like it's afflicting other parts to the app as well. I haven't seen it hit anywhere else or I'd assume a problem with the LCD.
Stick around, amu. I like the cut of your jib.Perhaps how to deal with posts that seem irritating is that they can be of benefit instead of making us angry (quite the transformation...if one wishes to see it that way) in the way of potentially discovering 'that' which triggers the negative reaction is NOT the comments or the people that post them... but perhaps an untrained instinctive reaction of ourselves since it is not an angry bug transmitted and infected us without choice. For posts that seem to be made out of ignorance, we wish them well on their way in making their own liberating discoveries. Save your chair for a more beneficial use
Ok here are my issues with 10.6.2...
1) Screen brightness was changing at random. I thought I was going crazy at first, but then I sat there for a few minutes and saw it clearly. I set the brightness at about 3/4 on battery power, and all of a sudden it jumped to 100% brightness.
2) I also noticed that my volume was extremely loud once I installed 10.6.2 and rebooted. I am using headphones, and could only turn the sound up to maybe 3/10 of the way before it was hurting my ears.
I tried repairing permissions first with no success. I then reset both the PRAM and SMC. This seems to have at least somewhat done the trick because my screen brightness has not changed anymore and also my volume seems to be at a more reasonable level (although still a bit too loud). I can turn the volume up about halfway without my ears feeling like they are going to bleed. Anyone else experience these issues? I'm using a month old 13" MBP.
1) Screen brightness was changing at random. I thought I was going crazy at first, but then I sat there for a few minutes and saw it clearly. I set the brightness at about 3/4 on battery power, and all of a sudden it jumped to 100% brightness.
2) I also noticed that my volume was extremely loud once I installed 10.6.2 and rebooted. I am using headphones, and could only turn the sound up to maybe 3/10 of the way before it was hurting my ears.
I tried repairing permissions first with no success. I then reset both the PRAM and SMC. This seems to have at least somewhat done the trick because my screen brightness has not changed anymore and also my volume seems to be at a more reasonable level (although still a bit too loud). I can turn the volume up about halfway without my ears feeling like they are going to bleed. Anyone else experience these issues? I'm using a month old 13" MBP.
And you don't by chance have the "Automatically adjust brightness as ambient light changes" option selected?
NOT resolved:
- a graphics distortion in Safari Top Sites
Good to know that I am not the only one with the issue. Thank you.
- a graphics distortion in Safari Top Sites
Good to know that I am not the only one with the issue. Thank you.
missing icons
updated to 10.6.2 tonight,
safari does feel a bit faster, it's been very sluggish lately.
but....now every time i start an app by clicking the menu bar icon, it disappears.
the space is still there, and the app runs, just the icon disappears.
any ideas?
updated to 10.6.2 tonight,
safari does feel a bit faster, it's been very sluggish lately.
but....now every time i start an app by clicking the menu bar icon, it disappears.
the space is still there, and the app runs, just the icon disappears.
any ideas?
It's actually quite mild at the moment. Been a warm November so far. Might be heading into an election in the spring. That's all we do here, have elections every two years.
Stop working with Tiger
The SSL updates are not the first time that Apple has been slow to patch a flaw first disclosed by Dan Kaminsky at Black Hat. In 2008, Apple was also behind every other major operating system vendor in patching the highly publicized DNS (define) flaw that Kaminsky found.
The Black Hat-related security updates are not the only late updates for this new Apple release.
The new Apple update also addresses multiple Apache Web server vulnerabilities that Apache itself fixed in August. Mac OS X 10.6.2 now includes Apache 2.2.13, which fixes multiple publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in the popular open source Web server.
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http://www.internetnews.com/securit...+Hat+Vulnerabilities+Get+Apples+Attention.htm
Apple patched 58 vulnerabilities in its Mac operating systems today, the most since May 2009, including several in the QuickTime media player that it had fixed separately in early September.
Apple apparently also retired Mac OS X 10.4, aka Tiger, from security support; none of the patches affect that operating system, which debuted in April 2005. Apple traditionally stops providing security updates for its oldest still-supported OS several months after the release of a new edition.
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More than half of the vulnerabilities patched today, 32 out of the 58, were accompanied by the phrase "may lead to arbitrary code execution," which is Apple's way of saying that a flaw was critical and could be used by attackers to hijack a Mac. Apple does not assign ratings or severity scores to the bugs it patches, unlike other major software makers, such as ...
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/111009-apple-delivers-mammoth-update-patches.html?page=2
The SSL updates are not the first time that Apple has been slow to patch a flaw first disclosed by Dan Kaminsky at Black Hat. In 2008, Apple was also behind every other major operating system vendor in patching the highly publicized DNS (define) flaw that Kaminsky found.
The Black Hat-related security updates are not the only late updates for this new Apple release.
The new Apple update also addresses multiple Apache Web server vulnerabilities that Apache itself fixed in August. Mac OS X 10.6.2 now includes Apache 2.2.13, which fixes multiple publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in the popular open source Web server.
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http://www.internetnews.com/securit...+Hat+Vulnerabilities+Get+Apples+Attention.htm
Apple patched 58 vulnerabilities in its Mac operating systems today, the most since May 2009, including several in the QuickTime media player that it had fixed separately in early September.
Apple apparently also retired Mac OS X 10.4, aka Tiger, from security support; none of the patches affect that operating system, which debuted in April 2005. Apple traditionally stops providing security updates for its oldest still-supported OS several months after the release of a new edition.
...
More than half of the vulnerabilities patched today, 32 out of the 58, were accompanied by the phrase "may lead to arbitrary code execution," which is Apple's way of saying that a flaw was critical and could be used by attackers to hijack a Mac. Apple does not assign ratings or severity scores to the bugs it patches, unlike other major software makers, such as ...
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/111009-apple-delivers-mammoth-update-patches.html?page=2
That really shouldn't matter because it was sitting at my desk, unmoved, with the same two lamps on that I always have on in my den. I have never seen any of my previous Apple laptops do this. The problem started within minutes of updating to 10.6.2. I have not noticed it since resetting the SMC.
Sometimes the laptop doesn't have to move. I'm not sure where the sensors for the auto brightness are but I've found that I can cause the brightness to change by moving my own shadow over them
But since SMC fixed it for you I suspect it wasn't just that!
10.6.2 has been perfect for me and the OS is a solid experience again. I've still had Safari crash twice since updating due to the Flash Plug-in, but what do you expect? Safari has never been the best as far as stability goes, and we all know how great Flash is on Mac.
Sometimes the laptop doesn't have to move. I'm not sure where the sensors for the auto brightness are but I've found that I can cause the brightness to change by moving my own shadow over them
But since SMC fixed it for you I suspect it wasn't just that!
The light sensor is right near the camera. Put your hand over the camera and the screen will get really dim.