Let's party like it's 1984.

yeehaaaaa I'm updating, 97mb of pure joy (I hope!!)

Wowowow! This thing fixed my marriage and resurrected my dog.

After repairing permissions, Exposé and Spotlight are quite noticeably faster and more responsive on my 17" 1Ghz PB G4 with 512MB of ram.

this update will be my last effort at getting my home linksys airport network rolling correctly under tiger (long story...). if it still doesn't work, i'm just dropping cat5 down from the ceiling.

OhhhhhhhHhhhhHh!

I can change the teeny-tiny, itty-bitty, way-too-small font in the Mail folders now. R0x0rz AppuL! It also failed to destroy my GPG and Mail Act-On extensions, which still work. Shocked I am, aghast, amazed, and very surprised!

And iTunes is tEh snaPpY again! For those keeping score, iTunes has seriously lacked, uhm, anything approaching speed and beachballed 2 deth since 5.0. Gonna party like it's 4.X again.

Average visualizations frame rate is back up to 30fps where I've capped it, instead of limping along at 12-17fps, which is the pathetic speed it's been going at since 5.X +

Also, iTunes no longer mangles video. It Just Works! Hooray!

I admit, deep down inside, I was hurt and emotionally scarred when my music started to grind to a halt. I mean, I fill up my PowerBook with 2GB, I have my tunes on a FireWire 800 drive going at 7200RPM and *THAT* was how Apple thanked me? Bad Steve, bad, bad, bad Steve.

More super-exciting discoveries as I make them.

<Bowing down to Saint Jobs> We are healed!

10.4.3 did overwrite and erase all of Micro$oft Orfice, but I'm unsure whether or not this is a feature.

Dunno 'bout Airport reception, I have 2GB, works for me. 'Course I'm using a PowerBook 1.5GHz; not upgrading until Rev B. Intels. I think I'll just skip the whole entire, "And there's SMOKE coming out of the screen, everything is broken, nothing works, I h4t3 apPUl!!#@!1!" rev A noise. I do occasionally hafta use the computer to, hmm, what's that word, oh yes: work.

God bless us, everyone. Most of all, those of us who use Apple.

Apple on Monday released Mac OS X 10.4.3 Update, which delivers overall improved reliability and compatibility for Mac OS X v10.4 and is recommended for all users.

An official set of release notes accompanying the update says fixes are included for:

AFP, SMB/CIFS, NFS and FTP network file servicesAirPort and Bluetooth wireless accessCore Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, and RAW camera supportdisc recording when creating and burning media.Mac sync servicesSpotlight indexing and searching Dashboard widgets: Dictionary, Flight Tracker, Stickies, and Unit ConverterAddress Book, AppleScript, Automator, Dictionary, Font Book, iCal, iSync, Mail, and Safari applicationsDisk Utility, Keychain Access, Migration Assistant, and Software Updatecompatibility with third party applications and devicesprevious standalone security updates

For detailed information on this Update, please visit Apple's knowledge base article on the subject.

My Pioneer A09XL (FW 1.58 ) is now delivered/supported by Apple.
109 MB combo