AppleInsider StaffApple hazmat scare
The Santa Clara County fire department arrived at Apple's Building 4 on De Anza Boulevard at about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday dressed in hazmat gear after they were called to the scene following the discovery of a suspicious envelope, reports the San Jose Mercury News.
An employee reportedly found the envelope, which contained an unknown white powder, in the Apple cafeteria. Preliminary test turned up no signs that the substance was hazardous but it was taken to a Santa Clara County lab for further evaluation.
Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update
Apple on Monday began distributing Mac OS X 10.5.7 build 9J60 on its internal network and subsequently made the pre-release software available for broader testing on Tuesday.
This sixtieth build of the Leopard operating system update corrected just one additional issue with a programming method that lets developers import the contents of a URL to their applications. Again, the lone issue with the software is incompatibility with the current public beta of Safari 4.0.
Mac OS X 10.5.7 includes well over 100 bug fixes, and AppleInsider has also recently learned that it will address issues with certain prior-generation Mac Pros and the ATI Radeon 4870 graphics card required for compatibility with Apple's new 24-inch LED Cinema Display.
Reportedly, the company prematurely marketed this graphics card to certain Mac Pro owners before appropriate software support was ready, which caused issues with iPhoto, VMWare Fusion, and putting the systems to sleep. Apple support representatives have apologized to affected customers and informed them that Mac OS X 10.5.7 will address the issue.
These support representatives further informed these customers last Friday that Mac OS X 10.5.7 would arrive "very shortly" or "within about a week."
iPhone OS 3.0 beta 5
Meanwhile, Apple on Wednesday evening released to iPhone developers iPhone Software 3.0 beta 5 build 7A312g, which was accompanied by iPhone SDK beta 5 build 9M2735 and iTunes 8.2 beta 10.
No major changes have turned up in any of the new betas, though a person familiar with beta 5 of iPhone Software 3.0 says the option to turn MMS messaging on or off — which never worked to begin with — is disabled in the distribution and that the tethering solution detailed on some iPhone hacking blogs no longer works.
Xsan
Apple also recently issued build 9M1041 of its Xsan networked file system. The release focuses on compatibility with the upcoming release of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
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is it possible that they will add Safari 4 support at the last moment, eg. by releasing the final version of it? Or we'll have to choose between S4 beta and 10.5.7 update? I got used to S4...
RUMOR: 10.5.7 should be out after Snow Leopard...
IMO Apple is making 10.5.7 perfect for what? All of three months before people update to SNOW?
Apple should have made the fixes earlier in on the OS and make minor changes as the updates come to an end.
The OS should have been more flawless at 10.5.2 and not 10.5.7.
I understand its for the people who don't want to update to SNOW, but for the most part, most people will update and it would have been nice to enjoy and more stable OS from Apple earlier on!
RUMOR: 10.5.7 should be out after Snow Leopard...
IMO Apple is making 10.5.7 perfect for what? All of three months before people update to SNOW?
Apple should have made the fixes earlier in on the OS and make minor changes as the updates come to an end.
The OS should have been more flawless at 10.5.2 and not 10.5.7.
I understand its for the people who don't want to update to SNOW, but for the most part, most people will update and it would have been nice to enjoy and more stable OS from Apple earlier on!
Stop yer jibber-jabba..... Microsoft should have released a stable OS before any of its updates and SP's. There will always be bugs and patches to fix them.... in any OS.
you sound sooo silly..."Apple why are you bothering to fix Leopard, when Snow Leopard will be out soon???" um because Apple is committed to a good customer experience?? Honestly....just stop posting, it's embarrassing.
I just want to know how long before they figure out that the white powder is someone's non-sugar sweetener.
The down side of a terrorized populace is the propensity to overreact to small things.
white powder in a cafeteria, I wonder what it could possibly be?
So I wanted to get this into AI, and this is the most recent relevant thread:
I just got off the phone with Apple support to complain about my ongoing problems with the graphics out from my 15" macbook pro (unibody) via a dual-link dvi into a 30" monitor. It tends to flash, go fuzzy, gain translucent grey snow and become unreadable about every 5 minutes (sleep or unplug/replug of the monitor fixes this temporarily).
Well, in the past they've told me that they are aware and investigating. Today I was told that "according to engineering, they're hoping that the update slated for the next week or two should fix this" Which means to me two things:
1) Apple is directly indicating that the update will be here shortly
and
2) The expected fixes for graphic cards will (hopefully) encompass existing issues with macbook pro's (as well as the other reported fixes for mac pro's)