Mac OS X 10.4.6 Update
Apr. 4th, 2006 09:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n303411
Dear Apple, here are some comments I have:
"Prevents a potential issue in which Mac OS X might stop responding when trying to log in as a FileVault-protected user if the protected Home image file has been damaged or moved" -- Thanks. This is probably fixing the problem that crashed my computer and corrupted my NetInfo database to the point where I had to do a full reinstall. 2 weeks too late, bastards.
"If you are bound to a directory system which enforces password expiration, ... your keychain password will automatically be updated as well." -- So I paid $6,000 to your Enterprise group to have OpenDirectory set up and it never got completed because of this bug. Your engineer installed a third-party freeware app that eased the problem but became a usability nightmare. "Will Apple support this utility?" No. "Will Apple include this utility in the next release of OS X?" No. "Will Apple fix the fundamental problem so a utility isn't required?" We're not allowed to say. "Enterprise Support" at all other companies means that once a bug is scheduled to be fixed in a particular release they'll tell you. Instead, Apple continues their policy that "Enterprise Support means you pay us a lot of money and we do nothing."
"Resolves potential issues that could occur when using automatic proxy configuration (PAC) files." -- I hope this is the problem that I run into about every other day.
"Disk Utility's repair permissions feature will no longer report "We are using special permissions for..." messages." -- And did you hunt down and kill the developer that created this message? What does the code look like, /* Spew random error messages that almost make sense but only if computers used tri-nary instead of binary. */"
"Resolves an issue that could cause Help Viewer to sometimes display a blank window." -- I thought it was just emulating the "blank look" stare that I get from your phone support people anytime I ask a question that can't be solved by rebooting.
"Terminal windows will no longer fail to open when using the /bin/zsh shell." -- I thought you were just discouraging people with bad taste.
"Addresses an issue for Microsoft Word 2004 in which Word would display a "Word cannot complete the operation because too many files are open" alert message when autosaving a document to a network-based home directory." -- I used to have a user that got this error constantly. I quit that company 5 months ago and the user was laid off last week. A dollar short and a day late.
And now the grand finale!!!
"Makes Mac OS X aware of United States Daylight Savings Time (DST) changes enacted by the Energy Policy Act of 2005." Oh your motherfuckers rolled out a fix for this the WEEK AFTER the first time this was needed! Fucking brilliant!
Oh sweet jesus I'm laughing so hard it hurts! Make it stop! Make it stop!
Dear Apple, here are some comments I have:
"Prevents a potential issue in which Mac OS X might stop responding when trying to log in as a FileVault-protected user if the protected Home image file has been damaged or moved" -- Thanks. This is probably fixing the problem that crashed my computer and corrupted my NetInfo database to the point where I had to do a full reinstall. 2 weeks too late, bastards.
"If you are bound to a directory system which enforces password expiration, ... your keychain password will automatically be updated as well." -- So I paid $6,000 to your Enterprise group to have OpenDirectory set up and it never got completed because of this bug. Your engineer installed a third-party freeware app that eased the problem but became a usability nightmare. "Will Apple support this utility?" No. "Will Apple include this utility in the next release of OS X?" No. "Will Apple fix the fundamental problem so a utility isn't required?" We're not allowed to say. "Enterprise Support" at all other companies means that once a bug is scheduled to be fixed in a particular release they'll tell you. Instead, Apple continues their policy that "Enterprise Support means you pay us a lot of money and we do nothing."
"Resolves potential issues that could occur when using automatic proxy configuration (PAC) files." -- I hope this is the problem that I run into about every other day.
"Disk Utility's repair permissions feature will no longer report "We are using special permissions for..." messages." -- And did you hunt down and kill the developer that created this message? What does the code look like, /* Spew random error messages that almost make sense but only if computers used tri-nary instead of binary. */"
"Resolves an issue that could cause Help Viewer to sometimes display a blank window." -- I thought it was just emulating the "blank look" stare that I get from your phone support people anytime I ask a question that can't be solved by rebooting.
"Terminal windows will no longer fail to open when using the /bin/zsh shell." -- I thought you were just discouraging people with bad taste.
"Addresses an issue for Microsoft Word 2004 in which Word would display a "Word cannot complete the operation because too many files are open" alert message when autosaving a document to a network-based home directory." -- I used to have a user that got this error constantly. I quit that company 5 months ago and the user was laid off last week. A dollar short and a day late.
And now the grand finale!!!
"Makes Mac OS X aware of United States Daylight Savings Time (DST) changes enacted by the Energy Policy Act of 2005." Oh your motherfuckers rolled out a fix for this the WEEK AFTER the first time this was needed! Fucking brilliant!
Oh sweet jesus I'm laughing so hard it hurts! Make it stop! Make it stop!
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Date: 2006-04-04 01:42 pm (UTC)Which is a shame, really.
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Date: 2006-04-04 03:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-04 02:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-04 03:07 pm (UTC)And in fact, apple appears to have beaten Debian to the punch on this one:
I don't understand the last two lines of output, but the rest of it is pretty darn clear. Oh, 2038. I see.
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Date: 2006-04-04 03:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-04 03:08 pm (UTC)for just these reasons.
Apple is great as a hobbyist / fun platform. But they suck when trying to do business.
Golinux :)
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Date: 2006-04-04 03:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-04 06:52 pm (UTC)I use linux desktops for 100% of my day to day operation, laptops, development, browsing, graphics work, communicaiton, email, everything. The only reason not to use it is if there's an application you need that is not available under linux (which, alas, includes a lot fo the 'munst have' systems, like Quickbooks, etc).
FWIW, my laptop installs (all 3-4 of them) have supported power management and PCMCIA support out of the box.
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Date: 2006-04-04 06:58 pm (UTC)(and having all the mouse drivers work on the first try is an IT issue... technically... but the fact that device support is so good on OS X has a lot of benefits. I mean, the darn mouse works in [the equiv of] BIOS mode!)
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Date: 2006-04-05 08:20 am (UTC)Don't get me wrong, I enjoy working with linux as a server software development platform. I just think it's unrealistic to claim it's a well-developed choice for the desktop.
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Date: 2006-04-04 04:08 pm (UTC)I'm really glad they fixed the zsh issue. I wondered why half the time I tried opening a window, it'd just... fail.
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Date: 2006-04-04 06:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-04 07:23 pm (UTC)I can't blame them for being gunshy about trying to compete with Microsoft and Novell on that turf, but that doesn't make it any more fun to deal with. Frankly, I wish they'd just license whatever's necessary from Microsoft to make OSX a full ADS client, and just be done with it.