It's stories like this that make me hug my Mac. (OS X doesn't even have a registration key.)

Chris, a 10.5.0 doesn't follow from a 10.4.9 release. The numbers are not sequential, they are distinct from each other. Each build number represents its own meaning.

This means Apple could release a 10.4.10, or 11, and so on.

Known Issues
- One must use the reversioner to update from a previous seeded version of 10.4.9. Updating to 8P2132 without using the reversioner may cause AirPort not to work.

Focus Areas
Please focus your testing on:
- .Mac Connectivity
- Adobe Flash
- AirPort
- Apple's USB Modem
- Audio
- Automator
- bash
- bind
- Bluetooth
- Bonjour
- Dashboard Widgets
- Disk Images
- FireWire
- Fonts (OpenType fonts)
- gnutar
- Graphics
- iCal
- iChat Video Conferencing
- iSync
- OpenSSH
- Rosetta
- sudo
- USB

Areas of Change
New in this seed:
- Fixed issue with ImageIO and import speeds

From previous seeds:
- Fixed issue with deleting Bluetooth headsets from Bluetooth preferences
- Fixed issue with CoreAudio and AudioConverter
- Fixed issue with DiscRecording and the burning of DVDs
- Fixed issue with ImageIO and importing FCP files
- Fixed problem with network printing and AppleTalk
- Fixed issue with Rosetta and float conversion
- Fixed issue with automatically joining trusted AirPort networks after reboot
- Fixed issue with OpenGL and ATI PBO
- Fixed issue with OpenGL Programmability and graphic cards
- Fixed problem with OpenGL Framework and gleCommandProcessor
- Fixed issue with GraphicsDrivers Common Code and memory leaks
- Fixed issue with CoreImage and the cropping of multiple images
- Fixed issue with Sync Services Engine
- Fixed issue with ImageIO and the exporting of ISO data
- Fixed problem with CoreData Framework and multiple accessing programs
- Fixed issue with iSync and phone conduit
- Fixed issue with OpenGL Rosetta and DrawBuffersSimple
- Fixed problem with USB and isoch endpoint
- Fixed issue with OpenGL Programmability
- Fixed problem with OpenGL Framework and gleCommandProcessor
- Fixed issue with OpenGL and VM_ALLOCATE
- Fixed issue with CoreImage and exporting
- Fixed problem with File Manager and FSReadFork/FSWriteFork
- Fixed issue with Text Services Manager and background documents
- Fixed issue with CoreAudio where sound may fade in and out in some cases
- Fixed problem with Smartcard and securityd
- Fixed issue with X11 Xplugin and 256 color mode
- Fixed issue with Rosetta and rint
- Fixed problem with dyld
- Fixed issue with USB Isoc receivers
- Fixed issue with wake from Sleep and SecurityAgent
- Fixed issue with Rosetta and cache
- Fixed issue with Bluetooth and Bluetooth mouse when waking from sleep
- Fixed issue with ConsoleUser/SecureConsoleUser and IOKit Kernel
- Fixed issue with 'at' command and system_cmds
- Fixed onkeyup/onkeydown issue with WebCore JavaScript
- Fixed problem with rsync and extended attributes
- Fixed issue with NAT-PMP and port mapping
- Fixed issue where KEV_DL_IF_ATTACHED was not being received by kext
- Fixed issue with Color Sync and V4 profiles
- Fixed issue with MSDOS FS
- Issue where .m4v file extensions may not be recognized has been fixed
- Fixed issue with copying read-only files Xsan/UFS-backed AFP volumes
- Fixed issue with DVD Player
- Fixed problem with Crash Reporter
- Fixed issue with headset pairing and Bluetooth
- Fixed issue with incorrect time zones in certain areas
- Fixed problem with enabling/disabling Bluetooth
- Fixed issue with rsync and the copying of mod times
- Fixed problem with .Mac and Sync Services
- Addressed issue with USB modem recording level
- Fixed syncing issue with internal and external modem driver
- Fixed DRON/DROF issue with USB modem
- Fixed problem where USB modem may not detect busy tone
- Fixed issue with CFNetwork and network-aware USB devices
- Fixed issue with Sync Services and Address Book
- Fixed problem with USBInterfaceOpen and IOUSBLib
- Fixed issue with QC Engine
- Fixed problem with Kerberos OpenSSH patch
- Fixed problem with Open SSH and LaunchDaemon
- Fixed issue with HLTB Events (Carbon)
- Fixed issue with HLTB Accessibility (Carbon)
- Fixed issue with HLTB Control Manager (Carbon)
- Fixed issue with HLTB Windows (Carbon)
- Fixed issue with HID and IOKit
- Fixed problem with PDFKit and MalloGuardEdges
- Fixed issue with CoreAudio and MIDI files
- Fixed problem with natd NAT-PMP and port mapping
- Fixed problem with USB Isoc receivers
- Fixed printing issue with applications that use Rosetta when a user is mounted to a SMB home directory
- Fixed gssapi-with-mic and Open SSH issue
- Fixed issue with Unix 'at' command
- Fixed problem with CoreData Framework
- Fixed problem with CUPS
- Fixed issue with Network Diagnostics and WPA2 encryption
- Fixed issue where internal modem may not sync with external modem driver
- Fixed problem with CFNetwork and network-aware USB devices
- Fixed issue with dyld
- Fixed issue with MSDOS FS
- Fixed issue with Sync Services and Address Book
- Fixed problem with Apple internal modem and busy tone detection
- Fixed problem with Kerberos OpenSSH patch
- Fixed problem with Open SSH and LaunchDaemon
- Fixed issue with SMB File Server
- Fixed problem with IOkit Kernel
- Fixed issue with connecting a system to display while in Sleep mode
- Fixed problem with WebCore JavaScript and onkeyup/onkeydown event handler
- Issue where .m4v file extensions may not be recognized has been fixed
- Fixed issue with File Systems and copying read-only files
- Fixed issue with Software Update and format string
- Fixed problem with Sync Services Engine
- Fixed issue with rsync and extended attributes
- Fixed issue with Sync Services and .Mac Sync
- Addressed USB Modem and record level
- Fixed issue with Universal Access preferences pane
- Fixed problem with USB Modem and caller ID
- Fixed problem with Bluetooth and device pairing
- Fixed issue where USB modem may not detect busy tone
- Fixed issue with QC Engine
- Fixed issue with CoreGraphics and HID Manager
- Fixed issue with PDFKit and MallocGuardEdges
- Issue with Automator Actions and generated text fixed
- Fixed issue with .Mac and syncing

What a backward way of working around the problem. I would rather see a solution to the overheating that reduces the heat, and doesn't underclock the CPU.

A clever strategy to curtail Job's stance on DRM. Now the rumour mill will spread the words that Job's favours FairPlay and not about giving DRM the "old yeehoo."

Some good damage control by the RIAA there.

No, no, no, no, no... no. You guys got the quote wrong. It was meant to read as such:

"Nowadays, security guys break Windows every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on a Mac machine."

How you will control an open source community bent on freedom and difference is beyond me. The driving force behind Linux is the need to break down barriers and not be bound to any one way.

This results in a sea of like products that most invariably fizzle out or die because of lack of development. Code is written by "whomever" and because of the very nature of open source, accepted into upstream builds with minimal lack of testing.

The one component of Linux, the kernel, is heavily guarded by Linux et al., and amusingly enough remains solid; perhaps because it is heavily controlled.

Linux will not be viable till you get all heads of the hydra aiming the same way and tame the beast. If you do not accomplish those Herculean tasks, it will undoubtedly be something for the tech-savy, or the Zealot.

Brining it mainstream means you need to instill controls, and the open source community will fight that till their last breath as it is every they stand against.

Oh dear Lord, not her again. Crops up on youtube with nothing but cheese. She is (naturally) pretty, but a complete phony. Just really un-charismatic, unoriginal, and did I already say, completely full of cheese...

Blah.

I'm sorry, but when you get talented, young, motivated developers together and all you come up with is a weather program and a cookbook, something is rotten in Denmark. What happened here? Were is the creativity? Where is the passion?

What a Frakenstein MPA turned out to be. And Portal? Who is going to care when Time Machine comes along with Leopard.

Colour me unimpressed with these two very dull, lifeless programs.

I'm sorry 25% of the market was taken by Zune? What market would that be? According to stats, Zune took a weak 9% on the first week and then a pathetic 2% on the 2nd week of sales. They were beat out by competitors such as Samsung and others (and still are). The Zune has a sliver of the portable media player market. 25%? Maybe in Ballmer-land it's 25%.