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Apple prepping Mac OS X 10.3.2; seeded to developers

updated 04:50 pm EST, Tue November 18, 2003

Mac OS X 10.3.2 seeded

Apple is readying the and has provided developers with an advance seed of Version 10.3.2, marked build 7D12, which will include updates to networking, graphics drivers, and USB as welll as WebDAV, international text, and AFP Server, according to Microsoft Watch. The update follows the release of Mac OS X 10.3.1, which offered improvements to WebDAV, FileVault, and FireWire 800 drive usage, as well as tweaks to disk image mounting, printing, and iDisk access.

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on the radar

Apple can't be doing too bad if their updates are noted on Microsoft Watch

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Column view Info for CJK

Let's hope that the reference to "international text" is an indication that they are fixing Preview in column view, in which Info is now displayed in illegible garbled (mojibake) text for Japanese, Chinese, and Hebrew files (file name and content) when using the English (US) script as the system startup language. It was a major oversight by Apple, not to mention the fact that "File Name Encoding Repair" available from Apple's Web site is broken and will not fully install but still has minimal operation. Hanin input for Traditional Chinese still only converts one character at a time rather than a whole word as in Simplified Chinese or a whole phrase or even sentence as in Japanese Kotoeri.

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Humm "Minor"

I guess by "Minor update" they mean a 32kb file... It will Probably make our macs feel like a new G5 dual 2 Ghz and be snappier...

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idiot!

find a new joke, you snappy� dickwad. this is no longer funny.

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I really hope...

Dear God, please let the "networking fix" be a replacement/fix for the horrible, abysmal network browsing. This is one area that is actually WORSE than 10.2.

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SCSI Scanners

It would be great if they fixed SCSI Scanner support too - our expen$ive Minolta Dimage Scan Multi is seen by System Profiler, but can't be reached by the Minolta software, and doesn't work correctly with VueScan (today's .66 version) either.

It worked perfectly under Mac OS X 10.2.8.

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Network Browsing

Agreed. Network Browsing needs to be fixed! 15 minutes after I access my wife's 17" iMac my Power Mac goes into "spinning wheel of death" when I used the "Browse" function because her mac sleeps. I can't figre out how to eject a browsed volume!

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fix FontBook!

FontBook is still unable to handle many postscript fonts, in particular symbol fonts which can hose your system and leave you with inoperable safari, address book, etc. etc.

Fix it; or pull it from the system altogether.

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"graphics drivers"

"graphics drivers" = fix to allow my GeForce4MX to work in my G4, PLEASE!

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whine whine whine

I don't know how many people here told you to wait with the Panther update until 10.3.2 or 10.3.3 is released. Did you listen? No. So, STFU if you don't want to take good advise from people that obviously have more computer experience than you whiny little b******.

P.S.: Re: font: Check with the font distributor for that matter. Faulty font files are not Apple's problem.

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'Ejecting'browsed serve

I agree that the new network browsing feature is very inconvenient if you want to disconnect from a server.

However, there is a very simple way to disconnect from the server.

1. Browse to the server.
2. Find the connected server alias and highlight it.
3. Under file, choose eject.

It will disconnect and life will be good.

Now, we need an easy way to see only the servers you are CONNECTED to. On my system if you open 'servers' in the browse menu, it only shows my local hard drive, not ANY servers I am connected to. Seems Microsoftish to me!

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Re: whine whine whine

Sorry pal, but you're the one who should Shut The f*** Up. Our computers came WITH PANTHER ALREADY INSTALLED, so we couldn't wait for a Panther update -- we had no choice.

And tell me again how you know how much computer experience we all have? Moron...

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FontBook

The issue is with FontBook, not the fonts. Fonts that work fine if they're installed inthe ~/Library/Fonts folder will cause all kinds of problems when activated with FontBook. Something to do with FontBook's way of handling the files (which is not a simple file move from an activated to a de-activated directory).

If you really doubt this is a legitimate issue, do a search for FontBook on the Apple discussion site.

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This is going to sound like a complete troll but I have to wonder: what the h*** is going on at apple these days? 10.3 was so bad they have to come up with not one but TWO minor updates within a month?? I know design work carries on, but why in the world don't they TEST their stuff, instead of making their users a free QA department?

This c*** never happened for classic mac OS. Problems occured with major releases, but not insanely big stuff like a complete drop of Ethernet access.

The fact macs are the "whole widget" is supposed to make it easier for apple to make it-just-works software. But that seems to be less and less of the case. Either apple doesn't seem to understand it's own software, QA is not a priority, or I don't know what the heck is going on. But it's really starting to get annoying.

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Apple prepping Mac OS X 10.3.2; seeded to developers

updated 04:50 pm EST, Tue November 18, 2003

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Column view Info for CJK

Humm "Minor"

idiot!

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SCSI Scanners

Network Browsing

fix FontBook!

"graphics drivers"

whine whine whine

'Ejecting'browsed serve

Re: whine whine whine

FontBook

geez

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