Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.3

[Westside guy]

http://www.cqure.net/wp/2010/03/detecting-apple-mac-os-x-afp-vulnerability-cve-2010-0533-with-nmap/

I'd upgrade if I were you.

TL;DR? 10.6.2 has an exploits that lets anyone read anything in your home directory.

It's an interesting exploit. While it lets someone read anything that's in your home directory and doesn't have restrictive permissions (in other words, anything with what "Get Info" refers to as "Everyone" permission), they can't read subdirectories of your home directory. So they won't have access to your Documents folder, for example.

But yeah, that's a compelling reason to upgrade right there. Some of us do have non-default .bash_profile files and such, and potentially that could provide important information to an attacker.

 

[DMann]

omg no way!

Your sarcasm seems to have soared right over his head:

It's true

Not to mention, with XP holding at 65.49%, W7's 8.92% seems proportionately too miniscule to gloat about.

 

[miguli]

I was a bit nervous while the installer was running, as I encountered this screen on my fiancee's 13" MPB, but upon reboot, everything functions as expected...
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You are luckier than me with my fiancee's 13" MBP as reboot was no as successful as yours. After several tries I still get the same picture.

I might have to use the restore DVD...

 

[jimithing1]

I was a bit nervous while the installer was running, as I encountered this screen on my fiancee's 13" MPB, but upon reboot, everything functions as expected...
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So I am getting this on my Mac Pro after the update and it boots into this graphics garbage each time I restart the computer now. The update went smoothly and said it installed fine. HELP!

Is there a way to reinstall the update from startup disk?

 

[ToM7]

haha in passover apple ? finally

 

[AidenShaw]

Not to mention, with XP holding at 65.49%, W7's 8.92% seems proportionately too miniscule to gloat about.

Whatever you say, dear.

 

[mofunk]

wheeew now the orange highlight in Mail won't look like red. !!! A few weeks ago I finally installed snow leopard and my Griffin USB stopped working. Weird ... The Genius guy had no answer for it. Hmmm lets see if this update works.

Still have a couple more issues with SL. I hope the next updates will address them or I'm going back to Leopard.


lol

 

[RockTheGlobe]

My Time Machine now says it's verifying the backup it just performed. I don't recall it ever doing that before. Is this a new feature as part of 10.6.3, or have I just never noticed it?

 

[DLary]

Before the update, my 13" Macbook pro with an Intel SSD drive would boot in seconds. I would get maybe 1 to 1 1/2 turns of the wheel before booting. After the update it takes significantly longer. Sometimes after almost a minute, the login screen appears but the computer freezes.

 

[MrCheeto]

Still not upgrading - 10.5.8 works fine. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

You're right! Why should the army buy new guns when so many of their Garands and 1911's were perfectly well at the end of WWII? And the muskets before that! What a philosophy! I'll NEVER sell my Windows 95 machine or upgrade! She works like the day I got her, poorly -.-'

XD

But seriously, my two issues are Quicktime X and Hot Corners, hopefully the upgrade fixed these.

Quicktime X would stay in fullscreen until you +W it if you recorded a video in full-screen.

Hot corners would remove the hot-key from the preference that I set. I used to set it so that I had to hold Option and then move the mouse to a corner to activate any Hot Corners functions. It would delete the Option part, so my corners were always active. It did so randomly and it got so annoying I just turned hot corners off.

Here's hopin'!

Update:
Quicktime X now works PERFECT!! No problems with full screen! Beautiful!

Also, was this volume meter here before the update? It's at the bottom of the live video when recording a video in Quicktime X.

 

[Macula]

Out of curiosity, how much RAM are you using? I also have a BlackBook 2.4GHz and often run it with a 24" monitor and am wondering whether it is worth upgrading to SL.

Using 4 gigs of RAM here...

 

[Macula]

Since I have not yet upgraded to 10.6, I am curious, what issues are there with the X3100 and 10.6?

I am having numerous problems with the X3100:

1. Choppy Core Animation when machine is used with two monitors (Dashboard, Spaces, Exposé).

2. Artifacts on the screen, especially near the menu bar and above window shadows.

These artifacts are not likely to be caused by defective hardware: they are both widely reported in forums and captured in screenshots.

For example, see attached.

It is really ridiculous that Apple is neglecting problems with a graphics driver! Why on earth give the Address book higher priority?

If the underlying rationale is to neglect 2-year old machines in favor of newer ones, then I'm particularly disappointed.

 

[Mugwumper]

Not me - but it did tell me how many "items" to be backed up

My Time Machine now says it's verifying the backup it just performed. I don't recall it ever doing that before. Is this a new feature as part of 10.6.3, or have I just never noticed it?

Interesting: displayed a message about identifying 43,000+ items to be
backed up (11+ GB) - never saw that before. Then, VERY slow for the first
10MB, "normal" for the next 5GB, then slow again until 6.7GB - then it
finished! Then, found another 100+ items and 1.65GB - backed those up,
and finished. Elapsed time over 30 minutes, which seems really long, even
for 43K files. No verifying, though . . .

I had done a backup just before doing the 10.6.3 install, then added 3 video
files (about 80MB), and then did another backup.

Guess I'll watch it closely tomorrow - have a number of documents to edit.

 

[Tim018]

expose...still broken

expose was so great in 10.4/5, 10.6.3 still didn't fix how useless the new expose is. Look at the first screenshot below; i have all that screenspace to put them horzontially and to make it easier to figure out the one i want, but no, it puts them in little tiny icons vertically.

then, when you have 3 or more windows it just becomes plain difficult to figure out which one is the right one due to the fact that they are all the same size (yes i know the spacebar thingy, thats still backwards usability imo) look at the other two photos and notice how it moves the upload window from the left middle, to the right corner; why does it make any sense to put it there? ive noticed that using the expose with any number of windows open it will choose to put them in the most sporadic and unpredictable spots.

sadly enough, i think ill be going back to 10.5.8 till they fix expose or their is a hack to use the old expose, it was so much better imo...

 

[slapppy]

Awesome NO FIX

Nice that it still doesn't fix the late MBP blinking screen when running on "better battery life" setting.

 

[MrCheeto]

Better Battery Life? I thought they did away with that somewhere between 10.5.2 and 10.5.5... What did I miss?

 

[tmuller]

This effected me! And it looks like it's fixed! Totally thought I got a crap iSight and would just have to put up with it forever or send my whole computer in. Now I don't have to. Thank you Apple

I think you mean affected you. You can only have an effect if you affect something.

 

[SiegbertDH]

I hope somebody here can help me. I'm an update freak and I perform every now and then a thorough maintenance on my Mac. Yesterday I tried to upgrade it to 10.6.3. but it froze during installation. I tried like 5 times now but it keeps on freezing. I read in some people's post that their update is around 700 mb, I thought it was strange cause mine's only 438,7 mb. Can somebody help me with this?

 

[Papajohn56]

I'm noticing something different about text. Anti-aliasing is appearing different.

 

[tonydickinson]

10.6.3

Downloaded 10.6.3 and the finder is noticeably niftier than 10.6.2.

What is impressive that idling 10.6.3 draws 52 watts, load iTunes and it rises to 57 watts, this is four degrees less that with the modded 10.6.2 on a MacPro 2X 2.26 quad core Nahalen. This is good news for me, and my power bill and my own joy in using this computer which caused a lot of heartache and frustration when running core audio processes, prior to the original fix, when the power consumption would rise to 152 watts just running iTunes.

10.6.3 appears to have improved yet again the power consumption and resulting heat output.

Thanks Apple, I am very happy, it was certainly worth the wait.

 

[jacg]

Nice that it still doesn't fix the late MBP blinking screen when running on "better battery life" setting.

That sounds like the hardware issue I had to get fixed. If you have a warranty you may want to investigate that.

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

I hope somebody here can help me. I'm an update freak and I perform every now and then a thorough maintenance on my Mac. Yesterday I tried to upgrade it to 10.6.3. but it froze during installation. I tried like 5 times now but it keeps on freezing. I read in some people's post that their update is around 700 mb, I thought it was strange cause mine's only 438,7 mb. Can somebody help me with this?

If you read the thread you would see that ~400 MB is quite normal.

As for your problem, go to Apples website and download the combo-update instead.

What is impressive that idling 10.6.3 draws 52 watts, load iTunes and it rises to 57 watts, this is four degrees less that with the modded 10.6.2 on a MacPro 2X 2.26 quad core Nahalen.

Watts... Degrees...?

 

[Paulroberts123]

I hope somebody here can help me. I'm an update freak and I perform every now and then a thorough maintenance on my Mac. Yesterday I tried to upgrade it to 10.6.3. but it froze during installation. I tried like 5 times now but it keeps on freezing. I read in some people's post that their update is around 700 mb, I thought it was strange cause mine's only 438,7 mb. Can somebody help me with this?

I had the same problem, it wouldn't complete the installation. I fixed it by restarting into safe mode (hold shift after the restart chime, then let go once the beachball starts spinning). Then I just ran software update as normal, it was slow to install but worked, mine was about 430mb too and now is working fine.

 

[kockgunner]

Hurray! Spaces are now almost as smooth as they used to be in Leopard! A few more updates and we'll have a system almost as good as Leopard was!

Moving entire spaces are still laggy on my end. What's wrong?

 

[bed]

Upgrading via Software Update on my MacBookPro5,3 was dramaless. Havn't noticed any snappierness but it was damn snappy before anyway. Parallels is flying even better than before thats the main noticable thing.

Realised, with 4 Macs I should've downloaded the combo, so did that and upgraded my old white c2d iMac via screen sharing from work with the combo updater, which was also dramaless.

Tonight upgraded my wife's i5 iMac with the combo - set it running and left the room. Came back the screen was black, backlight on - completely unresponsive. Screen sharing wouldn't work. SSH'ed in and shutdown that way, which killed my ssh but didn't actually shut down. Powered it off then back on and after a few reboots at the white spinning screen booted up into 10.6.3 and all is good. NFI what happened there.

Need to do MacMini but can't disturb EyeTV's recording schedule or wife will kill me. Later for that.