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I've actually completely disabled Apples crummy copy and roll my own 'AMP' setup. My post was more to the point of users who dont know how to either remove, or update the default PHP version shipped by Apple are at risk, just because Apple cant take 30 seconds to update their packages before going in to beta on a release.

I didn't realize Apple wrote PHP and maintained the PHP package repositories. Guess I should also be upset with Apple for not including the latest updates to NeoOffice, Fusion 4, NetBeans, and Firefox in the OSX 10.7.3 update. :rolleyes:
 
I didn't realize Apple wrote PHP and maintained the PHP package repositories. Guess I should also be upset with Apple for not including the latest updates to NeoOffice, Fusion 4, NetBeans, and Firefox in the OSX 10.7.3 update. :rolleyes:

Apple are the only ones who can decide to put it in their updates. Are you suggesting its our responsibility to make sure that Apple's updates are updated manually after installing them then?
 
Apple are the only ones who can decide to put it in their updates. Are you suggesting its our responsibility to make sure that Apple's updates are updated manually after installing them then?

This has nothing to do with Apple's updates. When using a Linux distro like Ubuntu or OpenSUSE, one still has to add the PHP package repositories in order to receive the latest PHP releases. For example, with OpenSUSE, one can add the following package repositories to get the latest PHP updates.

http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=php5&baseproject=openSUSE:12.1&lang=en&exclude_debug=true

PHP is not Apple's software nor does it belong to Ubuntu or OpenSUSE.

http://www.php.net/

If you want the latest PHP updates for OSX, I suggest either compiling it from source or getting a pre-compiled binary at one of these popular Mac sites.

MacPorts
http://www.macports.org/

Entropy
http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/

Fink
http://www.finkproject.org/

Homebrew
http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
 
Good grief, Apple. Maybe it's time to put some of your A Team back in the OSX team instead of focusing only in iOS. You are disgracing yourselves.

Apple OS has been one of the main reasons for justifying Apple's high price relative to PCs. If Apple doesn't care to maintain their OS superiority, then they might as well close the computer division altogether.
 
both my machines here at the house say 1.3 gig combo update in the updater window. Current gen iMac and late model macbook pro. It seems they are just rolling out the larger 1.3 gig update as default now to all people using the updater
 
Nothing surprising really.

I know critics are not welcomes on this fanboy forum, but I've been using Mac since I'm 14 and clearly this is the beginning of the end. You can't tell that by the current numbers, because sure, Apple has now gone mainstream and make crazy money.

But that's exactly why smart, early adopters will soon ditch Apple: what Apple used to be good with, as the alternative outsider to Microsoft, was quality control, innovation, more easily accessible options etc...

Now Macs will have more and more bugs, and for those who know what Planned Obsolescence is, devices will less and less solid. Plus they don't innovate anymore, the iPhone 4S for is an iPhone 4 with a useless faster chip, a slightly better camera, and a voice gadget nobody uses after playing with it for the first month. As for OSX Lion, it's a failure, that's the less installed OSX upgrade of all time, lots of people stayed on Snow Leopard.

And finally, of course, Steve Jobs is gone, and official documents show that he has the iPhone 5 ready. I don't whose decision it was to finally just release a crappy iPhone 4 update one year after the first one, even if they were sure to sell crapload of them thanks to stupid sheep consumer who just discovered Apple (lots of stupid bvtches now have an Iphone or Macbook in my class, and they don't know what Cocoa or Spaces are...)...after the mainstream, there is always the demise.
 
Combo updater freezes near the end of install

I downloaded the combo updater after not being able to install this update from the updates menu. I ran the installation package and all was well until it got stuck at nearly the end, it has stated there's approximately one minute to finish installing for more than an hour, it just doesn't get past this point. Can someone Please help me? I checked my HDD with disk utility and it told me there's nothing wrong with it, and I haven't found anyone else that has encountered this same issue with the combo updater
 
Nothing surprising really.

I know critics are not welcomes on this fanboy forum, but I've been using Mac since I'm 14 and clearly this is the beginning of the end. You can't tell that by the current numbers, because sure, Apple has now gone mainstream and make crazy money.

But that's exactly why smart, early adopters will soon ditch Apple: what Apple used to be good with, as the alternative outsider to Microsoft, was quality control, innovation, more easily accessible options etc...

Now Macs will have more and more bugs, and for those who know what Planned Obsolescence is, devices will less and less solid. Plus they don't innovate anymore, the iPhone 4S for is an iPhone 4 with a useless faster chip, a slightly better camera, and a voice gadget nobody uses after playing with it for the first month. As for OSX Lion, it's a failure, that's the less installed OSX upgrade of all time, lots of people stayed on Snow Leopard.

And finally, of course, Steve Jobs is gone, and official documents show that he has the iPhone 5 ready. I don't whose decision it was to finally just release a crappy iPhone 4 update one year after the first one, even if they were sure to sell crapload of them thanks to stupid sheep consumer who just discovered Apple (lots of stupid bvtches now have an Iphone or Macbook in my class, and they don't know what Cocoa or Spaces are...)...after the mainstream, there is always the demise.

Let's not forget that Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 is the first update since iCloud functionality. It fixes a lot of bugs, and Software update does now use the Combo update instead of the Delta update, so no more Update problems (for the most part).

As for the iPhone 4S, the A5 chip was a huge step, much faster graphics, and dual core. Many may not notice it now, but the CPU part is exactly twice as fast and even an errant process running 1 thread at 100% will drain the battery half as fast since there is another core to do everything else. And the graphics is 7 times faster.

Plus, in the future, many App won't work as well with a single core. Multiple cores in Mobile devices is still new and Apps will soon need it to run well. I expect the iPhone 4S to run a future iOS that the iPhone 4 can't.

I'm looking forward to the Quad Core A6 with 20 times faster graphics than the A5, and that would make it 140 times faster than the A4 in the old iPhone 4?

I think one Lion hits 10.7.6 or so, it'll be pretty awesome and necessary. Though, Snow Leopard 10.6.8 is a very clean and bug free OS X. It just doesn't support so many new things. One big thing SL doesn't support is iCloud and the (soon) latest versions of iTunes and probably soon to be the latest version of Safari.

I think the most important thing is that Lion is finally about (or more) as secure as Windows (7) has been. Snow Leopard and before were easily attacked, but thankfully the Malware Industry didn't attack it much. Lion has address space layout randomization or ASLR like Windows has had for a while. Snow Leopard only had minor incremental security enhancements.

It is true that Lion was buggy in my opinion, but it's hard to have so many new features (the most ever) without bugs. I think (as usual with prior OS X upgrades) everyone will adopt Lion at over 80% rates. Doesn't Windows XP (11 years old!) still have over 50% user base? And it was over ~80% before Windows 7!
 
Can you access your recovery partition? If so, try starting again, the combo update has proved stable for most people.

I used the lazy way, did three Macs, no issues....But the combo update seems to work well....ANother new issue!
 
I downloaded the combo updater after not being able to install this update from the updates menu. I ran the installation package and all was well until it got stuck at nearly the end, it has stated there's approximately one minute to finish installing for more than an hour, it just doesn't get past this point. Can someone Please help me? I checked my HDD with disk utility and it told me there's nothing wrong with it, and I haven't found anyone else that has encountered this same issue with the combo updater

Try downloading the Combo Updater again. I just recently did that on my 4th Mac, and I got a build number of 11D50b instead of 11D50 on my other 3 Macs. I don't know if the Combo Updater was updated in the past 6 hours. Also, check if you see a pad lock in the upper right corner of the Installer Window. That means that Apple has verified and validated the package. I would restart the Mac and then run the Newly downloaded Combo Update, unplug all unnecessary peripherals and close all Apps. If that doesn't work, try using the Recovery Partition. Also, the "Software Update..." uses the Combo Update instead of the Delta Update now. Perhaps that'll work now.

If you have another Mac, you can put the Mac you're trying to update in Target Disk Mode, connect it to the Second Mac via Firewire and run the Combo Updater from the second Mac.

If all else fails, you can always open the Mac App Store, and click on Purchases and click on Update next to "Mac OS X Lion". That'll download a new 4 GB copy of the Install Mac OS X Lion.app. Then you can reinstall a fresh coy of Lion version 10.7.3 directly without updates. The Install Mac OS X Lion.app is version 1.0.16 (4.07 GB).
 
Lion isn't that bad

That may will be the case in some very rare occasions, BUT what about the silent majority that are in love with Lion! I had some issues with Lion on my 2007 MBP but none on my 2011 MBA nor on my mac mini server. And absolutely LOVE gestures. It's made it for me

I have had no problems with Lion since my purchase of a Mac Mini 2011. The only problem I had was the display port waking from sleep (which could have been the cable), but since I now have dual monitors I no longer have that problem. Oh yeah, also, occasionally it won't boot (like twice) into Windows 2008r2 but Macs have always been like that with BootCamp. Also SMC fan control is required.

Okay supporting SL in a school threw up some issues with an update with printing and I had to backdate the rosetta printing (last year). So SL is certainly not the holy grail of Mac OS.

I have updated my Mac Mini 2011 with no issues, not sure where all these Drama Queens come from! Been a Mac OS X user since 2002.
 
both my machines here at the house say 1.3 gig combo update in the updater window. Current gen iMac and late model macbook pro. It seems they are just rolling out the larger 1.3 gig update as default now to all people using the updater

Yup. All the 10.7.3 updates have changed and the delta updates have been removed. Even the server 10.7.3 updates have changed. The combo 10.7.3 has also changed, probably due to the changes in the distribution (now needs to apply to 10.7.2 as well).

Oddly, the file sizes of the pkg, smd, pkm files have changed (again, possibly to reflect the changes in dist).

But, this means my own private software update server is going to download all of these again. Oh well, at least my ISP runs an akamai farm.
 
I have updated my Mac Mini 2011 with no issues, not sure where all these Drama Queens come from! Been a Mac OS X user since 2002.

Makes me wonder too. But then after seeing articles like this,

Whole Foods CEO Caught In Embarrassing Message Board Brouhaha
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070711/174810.shtml

"the FTC dropped the bombshell that John Mackey had, for several years, been posting on the the Yahoo Finance message boards under a pseudonym, cheerleading his company's success and denigrating its rival"

and this,

Customers Fight Back Over Fake Amazon Reviews
http://consumerist.com/2009/02/customers-fight-back-over-fake-amazon-reviews.html

hmmmm...................
 
Try downloading the Combo Updater again. I just recently did that on my 4th Mac, and I got a build number of 11D50b instead of 11D50 on my other 3 Macs. I don't know if the Combo Updater was updated in the past 6 hours. Also, check if you see a pad lock in the upper right corner of the Installer Window. That means that Apple has verified and validated the package. I would restart the Mac and then run the Newly downloaded Combo Update, unplug all unnecessary peripherals and close all Apps. If that doesn't work, try using the Recovery Partition. Also, the "Software Update..." uses the Combo Update instead of the Delta Update now. Perhaps that'll work now.

If you have another Mac, you can put the Mac you're trying to update in Target Disk Mode, connect it to the Second Mac via Firewire and run the Combo Updater from the second Mac.

If all else fails, you can always open the Mac App Store, and click on Purchases and click on Update next to "Mac OS X Lion". That'll download a new 4 GB copy of the Install Mac OS X Lion.app. Then you can reinstall a fresh coy of Lion version 10.7.3 directly without updates. The Install Mac OS X Lion.app is version 1.0.16 (4.07 GB).

Thank you very much for your advice, I'll try it and let you know if it worked :)
 
Makes me wonder too. But then after seeing articles like this,

Whole Foods CEO Caught In Embarrassing Message Board Brouhaha
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070711/174810.shtml

"the FTC dropped the bombshell that John Mackey had, for several years, been posting on the the Yahoo Finance message boards under a pseudonym, cheerleading his company's success and denigrating its rival"

and this,

Customers Fight Back Over Fake Amazon Reviews
http://consumerist.com/2009/02/customers-fight-back-over-fake-amazon-reviews.html

hmmmm...................

Hmmm. It sounds like you're bringing up the possibility that some of the prolific fans are employed by Apple.... ;)
 

There you go, all nitpicking little problems that don't affect 99% of the Mac using population. OSX is completely solid, and only morons bash an entire OS over a few little problems.

Oh, and did I ever tell you about the time Office crashed on me in Windows 7? It's how I decided that Microshaft made completely unstable, buggy crap products, and why I switched completely to a Mac soon after. It just works. :D
 
Issue installing 10.7.3 resolved: thanks gatortpk

Thank you so much to gatortpk, I tried two of the solutions you gave me: I first downloaded the combo updater again but it didn't help, it still was getting stuck at the end, so I finally went into the recovery partition and installed Lion again from there, which did the trick for me. It took a bit longer than when I first installed Lion from the App Store but I now finally have 10.7.3 installed. Also, my MBP was running a little sluggish before when I couldn't install the update, and is now running smoothly.
Thank you again for your help!
 
There you go, all nitpicking little problems that don't affect 99% of the Mac using population. OSX is completely solid, and only morons bash an entire OS over a few little problems.

Oh, and did I ever tell you about the time Office crashed on me in Windows 7? It's how I decided that Microshaft made completely unstable, buggy crap products, and why I switched completely to a Mac soon after. It just works. :D

I wouldn't worry about it. All of us Mac users and converts from Windows know that OSX is really the best OS out there. :apple:

Yes, the quality does speak for itself...

Absolutely. I have had close to two decades of Windows experience including .NET developer experience at a Fortune 100 MS shop to compare the Windows experience to OSX. OSX is clearly the best operating system hands down and Macs are the best hardware. Windows continues to be "third-rate" just like Steve said years ago. Perhaps that is why Macs “are being freewheeled into the office by executives, top sales reps, and other workaholics." (Switching The Enterprise to The Mac)

Even the HP chairman uses a Mac at home.

HP Chairman Caught Using MacBook Air At Home.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/11/21/hp.chairman.found.not.dogfooding.own.pcs/

"His choice of a Mac, while possibly non-exclusive, is nonetheless symbolic as it shows one of the key directors behind the company using a key competitor's hardware."


In summary, you stand correct, "Yes, the quality does speak for itself..."

LOL!
 
I wouldn't worry about it. All of us Mac users and converts from Windows know that OSX is really the best OS out there. :apple:

WOOSH!

Absolutely. I have had close to two decades of Windows experience including .NET developer experience at a Fortune 100 MS shop to compare the Windows experience to OSX. OSX is clearly the best operating system hands down and Macs are the best hardware. Windows continues to be "third-rate" just like Steve said years ago.

Tell me this. You've allegedly had 20 years experience with Windows, up to and including .NET development. Apparently you had a bad time with it. That happens. But the question is...

Why isn't your experience universal? If things were truly as bad in the Window scene as you claim they are, there would've been a huge, huge switch to Macs years ago. We wouldn't have hundreds of thousands of .NET developers doing their thing right now, and businesses would've ditched the platform for something more stable and reliable back in the 90's. You could claim that it's because "microsoft paid them off", "they have a monopoly", or some other inane reason. But the fact is, Macs have always been available. Anyone can buy them at anytime. If a company kept losing their valued information due to their choice in platform, they would've dropped it like a bad habit first chance they got, no matter how much they were "paid off", or whatever.

Now there is a solid movement towards more Macs in the workplace. It's not a mass exodus, but it's steady. Is it because Macs are better? No. It's because some people like Macs more. But they'll never truly replace Windows completely in enterprise. Know why? Because Apple doesn't specifically support enterprise. They're a consumer computer company. MS does. So you'll always have Windows somewhere on the back end, even if a few computers in the cubicles are Macs.

Truthfully, there isn't a vast amount of differences between all the different platforms these days. Windows is as stable as OSX, and is as stable as Linux. There are some things each platform does a little better than the others, but overall? OSX has a better UI, which allows for quicker navigation and finer control amongst all your windows. You can tweak Linux down to the bare metal, which makes it the choice for servers. Windows has a better suite of software and features that allows a large amount of computers to work seamlessly in a unified environment. But for general usage? You'll be hard pressed to say one is far better than the others.
 
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All too common in these parts.... :)


Why isn't your experience universal? If things were truly as bad in the Window scene as you claim they are, there would've been a huge, huge switch to Macs years ago.

Some fans think that one out of twenty new systems running OSX *is* a "huge, huge switch". ;) (Note "new" systems, not installed base.)


It's not a mass exodus, but it's steady. Is it because Macs are better? No. It's because some people like Macs more. But they'll never truly replace Windows completely in enterprise. Know why? Because Apple doesn't specifically support enterprise. They're a consumer computer company. MS does [support the enterprise]. So you'll always have Windows somewhere on the back end, even if a few computers in the cubicles are Macs.

More often, the cubicles still run Windows or Linux. It's the people in the offices that never go outside of their browser or Microsoft Office that are more likely to have Apples.


Truthfully, there isn't a vast amount of differences between all the different platforms these days. Windows is as stable as OSX, and is as stable as Linux.

Well said, but there will be icicles in Hades before some fans will agree with you.

Meanwhile, software update is offering a new version of the combo updater - WTF is up with that?
 
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...Meanwhile, software update is offering a new version of the combo updater - WTF is up with that?

I can't see any difference in the installed files other than the systemversion.plist now shows 11D50b instead of 11D50. (Similar change to the Java installer build number too).

The only other possibility is the pre and post install scripts have changed, but I haven't run a diff over those yet.

So yeah. WTF? :eek:
 
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