10.4.11 On the way??

[Frodo]

I'm just starting to snoop around for info, but found this interesting enough to post here..... NOTE: These are reader reports, fwiw...

I've just gotten off the phone with Apple support and they've confirmed that the 10.4.10 update is buggy, and another update is in the works.

The tech I spoke with recommended that I archive-install 10.4.6 and update only to 10.4.9 using the manually downloaded updaters on Apple's web site.

After the update was installed, I got random kernel panics on two previously solid MacBook Pros. The /Library/Logs/panic.log file on both shows a kernel crash in "com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family". For both laptops, the kernel panic has only happened when on wireless using the battery. (So far.) My wife's Mac has been useless since the update -- six kernel panics (and associated lost data) in a day and a half. I've had a little better luck, but I've had two kernel panics since I installed it yesterday.

If you haven't updated, I would recommend holding off for a while longer.

more--
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports ... index.html

[MIDI Life Crisis]

I'm just starting to snoop around for info, but found this interesting enough to post here..... NOTE: These are reader reports, fwiw...

Frodo... you're scaring your friends!

[Frodo]

I'm just starting to snoop around for info, but found this interesting enough to post here..... NOTE: These are reader reports, fwiw...

Frodo... you're scaring your friends!

No, no... APPLE is scaring my friends!

... and your avatar ain't shortstoppin', either!!

[cuttime]

...and just when I was beginning to really take a liking to X4X. How about OS X4, Mach 11?

[mcgwd]

well now that the ipud is out, Apple better get back on track.

[Frodo]

well now that the ipud is out, Apple better get back on track.

Not yet-- There is already a new iPhone in the works, and other iToys are likely to either appear or see updates.

So odd-- everytime something goes wrong with my computer all I can think of is iPhone and iTV... (grrr...)

But whatever's wrong with 10.4.10, Apple had better get it right before Leopard comes out. By then they won't update Tiger any more and those who are not interested in moving to Leopard are going to be left hanging (that is-- those other than the ones who are not having trouble with 10.4.10).

[MIDI Life Crisis]

But whatever's wrong with 10.4.10, Apple had better get it right before Leopard comes out.

You saw the thing about version numbers and confusion in the OS???

http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?sto ... 8105254900

[Frodo]

I was only kidding about the numbering just being confusing to me at first glance. Cocoa reads both 10.4.1 and 10.4.10 the same (as '1041')?

And if there is a 10.4.11 to come-- guess what? the string will still be read as 1041 unless Apple changes the way Cocoa reads these strings.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

I was only kidding about the numbering just being confusing to me at first glance. Cocoa reads both 10.4.1 and 10.4.10 the same (as '1041')?

And if there is a 10.4.11 to come-- guess what? the string will still be read as 1041 unless Apple changes the way Cocoa reads these strings.

10.5 They really should have seen that coming!

[mhschmieder]

Good grief; didn't anyone learn anything from the Y2K problem?

[Frodo]

Good grief; didn't anyone learn anything from the Y2K problem?

Only the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

[HCMarkus]

Let's not forget the copyright folks: X4X (c)2007 by Frodo.

[Frodo]

Let's not forget the copyright folks: X4X (c)2007 by Frodo.

LOL! No copyright necessary-- it's just easier to type!

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Let's not forget the copyright folks: X4X (c)2007 by Frodo.

Sounds like one of them new fangled condoms. The xtra large ones...

[Frodo]

Let's not forget the copyright folks: X4X (c)2007 by Frodo.

Sounds like one of them new fangled condoms. The xtra large ones...

Those couldn't possibly be hobbit-sized!