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Mac OS X 10.3.3 (7F43) Seeded

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Apple has seeded Mac OS X 10.3.3 (7F43) to developers yesterday.

Major areas of change include Core OS, Carbon, Cocoa, Graphics and Imaginge, High Level ToolBox, Printing and USB.

Various fixes include:

- Prebinding performance fix
- Directory Services in large Active Directory installations performance improved
- NFS automounter now maintains connections in use
- Network browsing servers now mount on the Desktop and Sidebar
- AFP Authentication options are again available (Keychain for AFP now works again)
- Many other fixes
 
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https://www.macrumors.com/2004/03/13/mac-os-x-10-3-3-7f43-seeded/
Macrumors said:
Apple has seeded Mac OS X 10.3.3 (7F43) to developers yesterday.

Major areas of change include Core OS, Carbon, Cocoa, Graphics and Imaginge, High Level ToolBox, Printing and USB.

Various fixes include:

- Prebinding performance fix
- Directory Services in large Active Directory installations performance improved
- NFS automounter now maintains connections in use
- Network browsing servers now mount on the Desktop and Sidebar
- AFP Authentication options are again available (Keychain for AFP now works again)
- Many other fixes
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most excellent :)
 
Macrumors said:
- Network browsing servers now mount on the Desktop and Sidebar
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Thank god! The way it was before with those shares not showing up on the desktop was so goddamn annoying, especially when it froze your Finder if the network drive you just browsed goes to sleep before properly disconnected....
Cheers,

Ahmed
 
so why the wait?

anyone know y its taking so long to release this? is this usual? I seem to remember that 10.2.5, .6, and .8 all came out in what seemed like the same month. Is it cuz of new G5 updates? :D like PBs? :D
 
font limit?

I recently installed upwards of 700 fonts and suddenly neither safari, ichat, nor apple's mail would work for morer than a few seconds before crashing. I thought it might be the fonts, so I took them out and the iapps started to work properly again. Does Panther have a limit for the number of fonts displayed in a menu? They should really work this issue out in the next update.
 
xenotek said:
I recently installed upwards of 700 fonts and suddenly neither safari, ichat, nor apple's mail would work for morer than a few seconds before crashing. I thought it might be the fonts, so I took them out and the iapps started to work properly again. Does Panther have a limit for the number of fonts displayed in a menu? They should really work this issue out in the next update.
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How 'bout you send a feedback report to Apple telling them just that.
 
xenotek said:
I recently installed upwards of 700 fonts and suddenly neither safari, ichat, nor apple's mail would work for morer than a few seconds before crashing. I thought it might be the fonts, so I took them out and the iapps started to work properly again. Does Panther have a limit for the number of fonts displayed in a menu? They should really work this issue out in the next update.
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You have one or more corrupt font files, I had the same problem until I found the problem-causing font and deleted it.
 
Get it out!

C'mon, just get it out. In dying need of that speed boost to the OS...
 
I don't remember Keychain for AFP ever working (in Panther at least -- not sure about Jaguar), but sounds like good news.

I can hear a collective sigh of relief from everyone as far as the desktop/sidebar mounting as well.

Sounds like the networking update we've been waiting for forever (and quite frankly, should have been in 10.3.0).
 
Calebj14 said:
anyone know y its taking so long to release this? is this usual? I seem to remember that 10.2.5, .6, and .8 all came out in what seemed like the same month. Is it cuz of new G5 updates? :D like PBs? :D
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there was apparently a serious bug in one of the earlier releases that affected imacs. i assume/hope apple is being a bit more careful these days after the itunes/10.2.7(?)/itunes win mishaps.

there was actually a really good article a while back on the pros and cons of avie tevanian and what that meant for apple as he was promoted to a VP. the article implied that avie was a genius and very good at getting OS releases shipped on time and on a frequent basis, but his quality control wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

personally i'd rather wait another month and get something thoroughly tested than get something that would fry my hard drive.
 
I just want them to get it right. I like 10.3 on the most part but I really don't like all the bugs. Please do it right and do it soon.
 
Macrumors said:
Apple has seeded Mac OS X 10.3.3 (7F43) to developers yesterday.

Major areas of change include Core OS, Carbon, Cocoa, Graphics and Imaginge, High Level ToolBox, Printing and USB.

Various fixes include:

- Prebinding performance fix
- Directory Services in large Active Directory installations performance improved
- NFS automounter now maintains connections in use
- Network browsing servers now mount on the Desktop and Sidebar
- AFP Authentication options are again available (Keychain for AFP now works again)
- Many other fixes
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Still waiting for the http://www.macmaps.com/firewirebug.html
to be fixed.
 
I hear that. With you 100%

dashiel said:
there was apparently a serious bug in one of the earlier releases that affected imacs. i assume/hope apple is being a bit more careful these days after the itunes/10.2.7(?)/itunes win mishaps.

there was actually a really good article a while back on the pros and cons of avie tevanian and what that meant for apple as he was promoted to a VP. the article implied that avie was a genius and very good at getting OS releases shipped on time and on a frequent basis, but his quality control wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

personally i'd rather wait another month and get something thoroughly tested than get something that would fry my hard drive.
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Verrrry cool. Hope they make network browsing BROWSING like in 10.2, not this need to know IP bidness. Also let me pick ink colors and settings for my Epson 880 like in 10.2 would be great (10.3 took this away :mad:) but maybe I'm being greedy.
 
Let them get it right. It seems to contain a big number of nice fixes and updates as long as they keep fixing stuff and make sure it is stable and nice i do not mind waiting. I really hate downloading an update only to see that things are still screwed up and have to wait another 2 months or so for the next patch.
 
Calebj14 said:
anyone know y its taking so long to release this? is this usual? I seem to remember that 10.2.5, .6, and .8 all came out in what seemed like the same month. Is it cuz of new G5 updates? :D like PBs? :D
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First off, the 10.2.6 update came out as an update to 10.2.5 because of a serious bug that caused kernel panics on numerous USB hubs. 10.2.8 didn't come out until 4 months later. 10.2.7 was only available to machines with built-in USB 2 support. Mind you there were two 10.2.8 releases, one that was released prior to their fixing some bugs with battery life and ethernet drop outs on G4 towers, and another 3 weeks later. One was called 6R65, the next 6R73. So Apple will release an update shortly after another if they find a bug they can solve easily. Obviously the Firewire bug has eluded them thus far.

Two places to go to if you want to report a bug:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/
http://bugreporter.apple.com/ (free registration required)
 
Oh thank god, that prebinding bug has been bugging me since 10.2

I'll spare you the details, but the prebinding service will eat up 100% of your CPU and tie up your hard disk clicking away, no idea what it's doing. You can kill the prebinding service, but that's usually not recommended, so a restart would be required. Yay for finally fixing that! :eek:
 
well i hope it comes out before tuesday, im going home from uni for the holidays then and i will be without my nice 10Mbps connection for 5 weeks and only have a standard dial up instead :( i dont fancy spending a week downloading it!
 
If the update is released on tuesday I be we'll see powermacs on that day or a week after. I say this because numerous rumor sites are claiming that 10.3.3 is required for the 90nm G5 and many of the new features like XT graphics cards, 8x superdrives, and dual optical drives.
 
For those of you who think MacOSRumors is always wrong...

MacOSRumors predicted the release of this seed this morning.

And they were correct!

They also have been saying that powermacs depend on 10.3.3 for their release.

Could they be correct about that too?

POWERMAC UPDATES ARE IMMINENT.

10.3.3 = Powermacs!
 
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