Mac OS 10.6.3

Well, seeing that 10.6.3 is out, are you going to upgrade? Looking from comments nothing too bad so far, and I'm sick of 10.6.2. The hilarious thing is, while searching for the combo update (which I recommend over the software update) I saw this on my menubar.



See you at the other side!

Edit: These downloads are approaching the 1 GB range, since Apple has so much money in reserve, they should hand out free USB sticks with 10.6.3, seriously. -__-

Edit 2: The finder issues I previously documented my previous post have not been fixed, sighs. (referring to the issue with the spacing between folders, even though the spacing is exactly the same for one folder I could get 6 items in a row while for the other folder only 5, with a lot of white space next to the last item). On the bright side, my iTunes videos are working fine now. No lagginess in video, no performance issues, feels smooth.

Do NOT use keychain secure notes in 10.6!

For the third time now I've had to recover my keychain file from time machine after my one of my sticky notes just became blank. The first two times I thought it was due to my own error and I pressed the save dialog before I quit keychain which caused it to be blank but after searching the apple support forums a lot of other people have been experiencing the same issue.

I am sick of the keychain now and I will start to use encrypted dmg files with word documents or text files to store notes. Very disappointed in apple. If I didn't have a time machine backup of the file the note would have been lost, no way to restore. I really hope 10.6.3 fixes this. On a side note hurry up 10.6.3!

IE8, Safari 4, Firefox 3, iPhone fall on day 1 of Pwn2Own

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/03/ie8-safari4-firefox3-iphone-fall-on-day-1-of-pwn2own.ars

I've always been quite interested in these pwn2own contests, and I'm very surprised that no one even tried to hack chrome on the first day (on windows). As for safari on mac os x looking from previous news I'm pretty sure safari would fall (Charlie Miller seemed pretty confident he would hack it). Regarding safari on iPhone, pretty sure there would be a day where it would be hacked. For IE8 and Firefox 3 I keep hearing of enhanced security features in windows 7, I guess there was a way around it. I hope that all these exploits will be fixed in the near future. Onwards to day 2! We shall see whether chrome falls... And note that for the first day all these exploits were remote, meaning that all the user did was access a malicious site and their computer would be compromised.