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Latest Infusion O' Fun (11/12/02)
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Jonesing for an update? We're not surprised; after all, it's been almost nine weeks since Mac OS X 10.2.1 made the scene, and that's a long time to go without so much as a point-release update to take the edge off. Well, Jaguar-using Software Update junkies rejoice: Mac OS X 10.2.2 was released last night, which means you're just a click away from infusing your Mac with all sorts of shiny new bug-fixy goodness.
We'd give you our own impressions of 10.2.2, but truth be told, we haven't actually installed it yet, for a couple of reasons. The first is that "uptime" on our main production system currently returns "up 35 days, 16:42" and counting, and we're loath to break the streak just for the sake of installing a minor update without which our Mac seems to be coping pretty nicely. We don't have a particular goal, here, but rebooting voluntarily after nearly 36 days of uptime would feel like kicking over a sand castle we spent a month making. Sure, it's irrational, but so's eating donuts upside-down while doing a handstand on a board 54 stories above the New York City streets, and you don't hear anyone calling "Shipwreck" Kelly irrational, do you? Ha. We've run circles 'round you logically.
The other reason is that we're actually in a strangely cautious frame of mind right now, so instead of blithely diving in and installing an update just for the sake of it, we're holding back and letting everyone else blithely dive in and install an update just for the sake of it. Maybe after a couple of days, when we've waded through all the bug reports, we'll make an informed decision to allow that code onto our Mac's boot drive. For now, though, we're content to sit back and listen to some of the feckless early adopters complain of post-update road bumps like disappearing iPods, incompatible Norton Utilities, freezes on reboot, deleted admin passwords, and nonfunctional optical drives.
But don't get us wrong: we will install this update soon, mostly because it's implemented one change for which the entire Mac community has been clamoring for months on end. Take a peek at Apple's list of changes in 10.2.2 and you'll notice that it "addresses a potential kernel panic situation when using three video cards and more than 512 MB of RAM." Well, geez-- finally! Seriously, as if anyone uses fewer than three displays anymore...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 11/12/02 episode: November 12, 2002: Apple's Emeryville store once more has a grand opening date-- a week later than the original one. Meanwhile, Apple releases Mac OS X 10.2.2, and certain aspects of Dell's upcoming PDA look extremely familiar...
Other scenes from that episode: 3833: Follow The Bouncing Date (11/12/02) Greetings, and welcome back to another exciting episode of As the Emeryville Turns! Yeah, yeah, we know... there's been an awfully high ratio of stuff about the (allegedly) imminent grand opening of the Apple Store Bay Street floating around here lately, but what the heck-- at least it's a continuing plot thread... 3835: Dell's PDA Does Aqua? (11/12/02) Remember all the time we've spent sitting around waiting for Apple to get off its duff and ship a new PDA to replace the long-lamented Newton? Well, Apple never actually got around to producing one-- but that's not going to stop Mike Dell from releasing his own copycat PDA anyway...
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