But who is to guard the guards themselves? - Juvenal
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Apple and Microsoft patch their buggy products
SLICK LOOKING TOY MAKER Apple has once again shipped a batch of bug-ridden hardware to its users.
When those who have recently ordered one of the new 15-inch or 17-inch Macbook Pros from Apple get the gear out of the box they will have to download a whopping 258MB patch.
According to Apple the Macbook Pro software update 1.3 is recommended for all 15-inch and 17-inch Macbook Pro mid-2010 models. It contains improvements for graphics stability for high-performance video and gaming applications as well as various bug fixes, according to Apple.
The update was posted on April 13, and requires Mac OS X 10.6.3.
The question is why Apple could not be bothered installing the update before it sent the gear to the user.
While many Apple fanbois will not care because they can download 258MB in half an hour, a software package that big implies there were were serious problems that Jobs' Mob considered it was up to its users to fix.
But Apple is not the only IT kit vendor with software quality problems. Yesterday Microsoft released its monthly patch Tuesday security pack. There were 11 security bulletins to address 25 vulnerabilities.
Five were rated Critical, five rated Important and one was rated Moderate.
The Vole's latest patch release affected Windows, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Exchange. Additionally, it updated the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) to include Win32/Magania.
MS10-019 affects all versions of Windows. The flaw allows an attacker to alter signed executable content (PE and CAB files) without invalidating the signature.
MS10-026 does not affect Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, or Itanium versions of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003. However, it is critical on Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Server 2008. The vulnerability can be exploited simply by the user visiting a web page hosting a specially crafted AVI file that begins streaming when the page loads.
MS10-027 affects only Windows 2000 and Windows XP users whose systems potentially can be exploited simply by visiting a specially crafted web page. µ
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Apple fanbois please buy a sense of humour, and don't be so defensive about a product.
Especially when that product is overpriced and easy to use, restricted and expensive to upgrade. That all says "not very bright, easily parted with his money, and easily parted with his money again!"
;-)
While you were chastising others for their reading skills, you should have been examining your own. Nowhere in my reply did I say or imply you didn't have a life, just that yours is sad. I'll say it again. You swallowed Nick's bait nicely and came running like a good little troll.
@Alan
I see you attend the same troll school as my buddy Stuart. Since you seem to have missed the whole point of the Inq and swallowed the same bait as poor Stuart, I'll give it to you slow so you don't miss the obvious again. CHEEKY, SARCASTIC AND TONGUE-IN-CHEEK HUMOROUS STORIES ARE THE WHOLE POINT. If you want BBC or CNN, tune in there. But be warned, they use big words and you may get lost easily.
You are welcome to get your news elsewhere.
Call yourselves journalists? This shite is the tech version of the Sun or the Star.
I'd be embarrassed to see my name on one of your mastheads.
@ nECrO: Unlike you, I have a life. I also know how to spot bad journalism. Clearly you don't.
@ Gene Hunt: Perhaps you should check your own reading skills before criticising others. I said "while almost ignoring the fact that Microsoft (of whom he appears to be a fanboy)". Notice that word Almost?
Oh, and for the record, I use BOTH OSX and Windows running on Macs and PCs. Funnily enough, I like both as well.
Please understand Nick.
He can't control himself. He's suffering from "technology turret's syndrome".
He responds violently to the names Apple, Steve, "insanely great products", "it just works", and a whole bunch of stuff his canary cavity sized brain doesn't get.
But he's getting too boring, even for me. I may have to dump him.
You'll learn with guys like Stuart Castle and the other Nick Troll/hangers on, that they live for his stories so they have some kind of meaning in their sad lives. Not much different than love sick girls who swoon over rock stars and actors.
It is entertaining though. Just read the first line of this story. See the bait? Stuart and his girlfriends swallow it every time. You can't find entertainment like that just anywhere.
wind-up broadband is Nick using? 250M in 1/2 hour? I make that about 1Mbit/sec. You can get better than double that over 3G and 40 times that if you are lucky enough to live in an area that has FTTC.
Used OS X for years, I bought a new MiniMac a while back and had one update (Snow Leapard) several months ago that was over 500Mb.
The little Mini Mac rocks and there are a few issues such as global folder colour does not seem to work with Snow Leopard but nothing serious, I really like the little thing. It shares my big gaming rig's monitor and speakers. Use separate wireless mice and keyboards. Apple's little mini wireless keyboard is great too, but the magic mouse sucks and sent it back because of sensitivity issues. If you get any Mac, make sure you get 4Gb of system RAM the processor speed is not near as important. OS X 10.6 uses about 2Gb of RAM just sitting there, that includes the the shared video.
The smallest but sometimes frequent updates seem to come on my main computer, my laptop running Ubuntu.
I had no idea OSX wasn't object orientated, and changing one line in the source meant that the entireOperatingSystem.exe had to be replaced.
And as for the other dope who said the article missed the fact that Microsoft just had Patch Tuesday... dear god. if your reading skills are that bad, no wonder you think your Mac is doing OK.
You poor deluded fools. More money than sense. talking of which, someone I know had a spangly macbook just keel over and die for absolutely no reason at the weekend. They replaced it with a Windows 7 laptop and are loving it. They keep discovering 'new' features that have been around since Windows XP!
hexx, you'll learn with nick that he considers anything to do with Apple to be bad. Notice how he criticises Apple for releasing 1 patch for a range of products that just apparently improve performance for those products, while almost ignoring the fact that Microsoft (of whom he appears to be a fanboy) released patched for 25 security vulnerabilities in their products, on top of have to release several patches last week.
He has also missed the fact that Apple will have completed manufacturing on most of the MacBooks launched this week several weeks ago, and this patch was released a couple of days ago.
At least Apple, unlike Microsoft, can ensure their various platforms work together.
Remember Windows Mobile 5? Released at the same time as Vista, yet couldn't sync with vista without a patch..
So which university did you get your computer science degree from? I'd love to know so I'll know never to employ anyone who went there because they obviously churn out people with no clue.
The size of the software patch implies nothing whatsoever other than the size of the component being patched. A single change at the source code level can result in a major alteration in the layout of the compiled object.
what's this nonsense?