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Mac OS 10.2.3 Released

Originally posted by buseman
Maybe there is something wrong with the file that tells what has been installed to software update.app on the non-english 10.2.3

So for all of us foreigners - lets get ready for a lot of old software in the upcoming months:D
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i simply switched my language to english in my prefs and after quitting and restarting the pref pane iTunes disappeared from the updates list.
switching first to netherlands and after then back to german both brought back iTunes in the SWupdater. strange but i can live with that for the next days.

wish you all a nice and warm christmas.
 
Originally posted by mykuki


i simply switched my language to english in my prefs and after quitting and restarting the pref pane iTunes disappeared from the updates list.
switching first to netherlands and after then back to german both brought back iTunes in the SWupdater. strange but i can live with that for the next days.

wish you all a nice and warm christmas.
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Why don't you just click on it to select it then choose make inactive from the update menu.

To all of you people obsessed about the buttons.

GET A LIFE!!!

:D
 
Huh??

No serial numbers here, on any of my 3 Macs (all updated – I'm THAT bleeding-edge!!). UPDATE: Actually I've just checked the iBook, and it DOES now have a serial no. My Cube and FP iMac are both clean installs of 10.2, whereas the iBook has the 10.2 update: is this the difference? Whassup with that?:confused: If it is black helicopter stuff, they're not very good at it! I guess I'll be using the 10.2 CD to do a clean install on the iBook: I prefer the anonymity!
 
Re: Huh??

Originally posted by skunk
No serial numbers here, on any of my 3 Macs (all updated – I'm THAT bleeding-edge!!).
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There is on mine. You have to open up the About your Mac menu in the Apple Menu. Then you have to click on the area of the windwo where it says Version 10.2.3 it should then say Build 6G30 then click on it once more time and it should show a serial number.
 
Originally posted by danman
Did the 'Serial Number:' in the About This Mac info box just get introduced with this build or was it in before... what's it all about: Apple starting to ID machines by hardware or sommat?
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The serial number has been in firmware, and accessible from the OS for quite a while. It started sometime after the B&W G3 systems.
 
problems...

Surprisingly this doesn't have anything to do with buttons. After installing on my home G4 everything worked fine but when I installed on my work G3 blue and white the computer won't finish starting up. I get a dialogue box that says that I need to restart.
Just thought that I would inform anyone getting ready to run this update through software update.
Good Luck!

ps my drive may have to be reinitialized now because Norton System works won't recover the drive.
 
Re: problems...

Originally posted by theranch
Surprisingly this doesn't have anything to do with buttons. After installing on my home G4 everything worked fine but when I installed on my work G3 blue and white the computer won't finish starting up. I get a dialogue box that says that I need to restart.
Just thought that I would inform anyone getting ready to run this update through software update.
Good Luck!

ps my drive may have to be reinitialized now because Norton System works won't recover the drive.
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What does a good utilty (DiskWarrior) have to say?

Norton has been the cause of as many problems as it has repaired, and is not really safe for X yet (especially as an installed app).
 
serialz

The serial number in the about window has been there a while. I first discovered it at some point in the 10.1.x era (I've been upgrading incrementally since 10.0.4). I don't know how long it was there before that.

It only works, however, on systems with the serial number in firmware. This includes the white iBooks, flat panel iMacs, Quicksilver G4s, and at least the newer tiBooks.

I honestly don't know at which point it started, but I can confirm that it has the serial on a 733mhz Quicksilver G4, a 500mhz white iBook, and a 550 mhz TiBook. I can also confirm that the beige G3 tower does NOT have it :)

Anything between beige G3 and Quicksilver 733, who knows... But that's why there's a descrepancy, there are OS X compatible computers that were manufactured before Apple had the serial in the firmware.
 
Re: Redraw improved?

Originally posted by ilovemyimac
Is there something I'm missing because video performance is definitely not one of the highpoints of my Mac experience.
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i think the point is that you have to shell out 5 grand to get all the blinking lights and things working right he he :D
 
Version numbers serial numbers

As to the person who said that the kernel was downgraded from 6.3 to 6.2, i have 6.3 after the update. I use the Pearl custom theme and my iChat buttons disappeared. However, i think I have the system preferences "Appearance" theme on graphite which would cause this. I guess we're going to have to wait and see when apple releases the next update to find out if the recessed buttons were on purpose. Since they are definitely going to release an update to fix the Ti theme, we'll see if they forgot the drop shadow or what. Oh, and I'm on a quicksilver 867, and i do not have a serial number. It says in the Apple System Profiler "Customer Serial Number" and mine is blank next to it. I'm going to look for the plist or xml file with that information stored in it, in the unlikely event that's where it is.
 
Addresses a potential issue in which playing certain system alert sounds could cause the Login window to appear.
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That's a pretty odd bug. I guess I'm glad they fixed it, but I'm curious, from a programming perspective, how the difference betwen one system alert sound and another might cause such behavior. I guess we'll never know.
 
COmputer hang up after 10.2.3 install

Could someone pleae help me.

I installed 10.2.3 on G4 DP450 upgrading from 10.2.2. Restarted and went to Disk First Aid to repair permissions.

Everything was fine until I put computer to sleep, then it wouldn't wake up so I restarted again the countdown circle froze and got message in upper lefthand corner

sh-2.05a#

Have run Disk Warrior and Nortons from OS 9 but it keeps happening. Does anyone know what is happening and a possible solution.

(Since 10.1 have not been able to get many Apple programs like Stickie and IChat and Software Updater to work so I hoped repairing permissions might fix them.)

Thanks to anyone who has an explanation or suggestion.
 
system hang for a sec

I've been having the same same same problem with my powerbook g4 all day......if i'm on ichat, spefically or so, when somebody IM's me or someone goes off or online, the speakers, 'click' and it pauses, and then i hear the sound, like its delayed or something, idont understand why!? if someone could help out , it would be greatly appreciated, thanks ;):D
 
Has anyone else noticed Netscape acting weird under 10.2.3? No crashes or anything, but windows take even *longer* to open, scrollbars turn sticky more often, sometimes the back button won't work on certain pages, sometimes links don't work. I think it's having, among other things, issues grabbing code from the servers. I'd like to think i'm imagining this, but it's happened a few times now... Netscape isn't the fastest or most stable of browsers, but it's never been this bad...

i'm thinking if Netscape doesn't do something to address this problem, like a good solid update, i may be *gasp* switching browsers in the near future :(

pnw
 
Originally posted by paulwhannel
Has anyone else noticed Netscape acting weird under 10.2.3? No crashes or anything, but windows take even *longer* to open, scrollbars turn sticky more often, sometimes the back button won't work on certain pages, sometimes links don't work. I think it's having, among other things, issues grabbing code from the servers. I'd like to think i'm imagining this, but it's happened a few times now... Netscape isn't the fastest or most stable of browsers, but it's never been this bad...

i'm thinking if Netscape doesn't do something to address this problem, like a good solid update, i may be *gasp* switching browsers in the near future :(

pnw
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Why not switch to Mozilla?
 
Originally posted by alex_ant

Why not switch to Mozilla?
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Actually, that's where i started. i know they're based on the same source code, but i swear Mozilla doesn't have the java and plugin implimentation that Netscape has. Ah well, haven't used it in a long time, i may have to give it another go :) Besides, that little dragon is so cute...

pnw
 
TiBook hanging after 10.2.3 install

Well, I installed 10.2.3 on my 2 PowerMacs, (very similar config to the TiBook) and all went well*; however, when I installed on my 500MHz TiBook, the computer now hangs right before the login screen. Verbose mode doesn't give any useful info, AFAIK, and booting into safe mode (hold down shift) doesn't improve things. I was able to restore from a backup I made of my 10.2.2 system, and I tried again after that, but still no luck. Has this happened to anyone? Any ideas what I can do to fix this? TIA.

-Conrad

* I have been having problems with apps crashing (Entourage, Netscape) in 10.2.3 after waking from sleep, and even got a kernel panic within 1 day of installing 10.2.3.
 
Originally posted by paulwhannel
Has anyone else noticed Netscape acting weird under 10.2.3? No crashes or anything, but windows take even *longer* to open, scrollbars turn sticky more often, sometimes the back button won't work on certain pages, sometimes links don't work. I think it's having, among other things, issues grabbing code from the servers. I'd like to think i'm imagining this, but it's happened a few times now... Netscape isn't the fastest or most stable of browsers, but it's never been this bad...

i'm thinking if Netscape doesn't do something to address this problem, like a good solid update, i may be *gasp* switching browsers in the near future :(

pnw
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Have you not used Chimera? it's hands down one of the best browsers i have ever used, second perhaps to Mozilla, especially if you have the guts to compile mozilla on your own computer. i have seen some incredible results from people who do that---INTENSE speed and stability. never done it on a mac. i would compile Chimera, but i don't want to mess with CVS and you can't get the source via FTP that i know of, nor do there seem to be any instructions for doing it with interface builder, which i would much rather use than freaking code warrior.

I dunno, it seems like there is a lot out there better than netscape, as exemplified by your problem.
 
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