Apple Seeds Another Mac OS X 10.5.3 (9D11)

[nyquist11]

let me print wirelessly to my printer and i'll be happy. arrrgggg!!!

What do u mean " print wirelessly"? I have two networked printers w/ built in hubs and one connected to another mac and I can print to them all wirelessly

 

[Snale]

Another suspected reason (or at least wishful thinking) for the update is that this is necessary to make Digidesign Pro Tools compatible with leopard. According to the people at Digi's support forums, Digi and Apple have had to work together at making some changes to both protools and leopard to allow the two to work together properly. Apparantly there are some issues with how Leopard handles Firewire and USB. If that's true, the would probably have to be in the form of an OS update.

I know a lot of people (including myself) who are waiting for Leopard support in order to run PT on newer Macs that can't run Tiger. (Like my new Mac Pro )

Hopefully this news means that the update is coming fast (and maybe this fix is one of the reasons it's coming out so fast).

-bryan

 

[coleridge78]

3-4 mins to repair permissions!?

Is THAT and Aprils Fool Joke?

It should be no more than 15-30 seconds tops.
Went back to Tiger, sometimes 12 seconds mostly 15,

its almost complete utter indifference and lack of respect for their customers for Apple to have left that bug for so long

No disrespect, but I have a feeling that people saying this may not fully understand what "repair permissions" is.

I won't go into the fact that it's 99.999% voodoo, because that's been done to death. But, here's what it actually is: in Unix-based systems, every file (/directory/device/etc.... everything on the system is a "file") has read, write, and execute permissions for the owner, a group, and everyone else. That is nine bits, plus three more that control other things that I won't get into.

"Repair permissions" is a "well, just in case..." program that looks at <i>some</i> files and directories on your machine, such as your Applications directory and various /Library items, to make sure that they haven't had their permissions mis-set by third-party programs, their own programs, or inadvertently by the user.

To look at this for every file on an out-of-the-box Leopard install, with no extra files, would take a few hours.

"Repair permissions" only looks at certain things, and depending on how they expand that definition over time and what a given user has installed, it can be widely variable. It doesn't mean that there is a "bug". It just means more things are being looked at.

FWIW, I've not encountered (as a support person) or even heard of on the internet a single case where "Repair permissions" ever fixed an actual problem. Not saying it hasn't happened, but it really is voodoo in nearly all cases.

 

[crackintosh]

Fix syslogd using 100% of the CPU!!!!!

 

[schwarz]

MacRumors does not participate in April Fools news stories. All stories posted today are real.

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is that statement itself fake?lol

 

[fluppel]

I hope these Airport "fixes" are related, meaning eliminating my Airport connectivity problems!

http://www.niquille.com/2008/04/03/broken-airport-on-macbook-after-update/

 

[mikey.f]

I am having some random Mail and Finder graphic errors sometimes. When I scroll through messages or in a folder, the background goes gradually black and the colors start looking funny. I hope this update fixes it... It's been around since .5.0

 

[hijofrizbe]

How long have you left it? They do the same for me - display "less than one minute", but after 15 minutes or so (200G drive) the tasks finish up.

I've actually gone to work (9am) and come back (5pm) and it still is at less than one minute.