Posted on 08/18/2005 12:46:50 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple security update breaks 64-bit applications
A security update released on Tuesday by Apple Computer rendered 64-bit optimized applications for Mac OS X unusable. The update, which fixed many issues with the operating system, left some companies scrambling to explain to customers why their applications stopped working.
One company, Wolfram Research, contacted its customers via email to explain why their 64-bit optimized Mathematica 5.2 stopped working after users installed the Apple update.
“Due to an error on the part of Apple, this update prevents any 64-bit-native application from running,” said Wolfram in the note to customers. “In particular, this means that Mathematica 5.2 will not run on any G5 system if it has installed this Security Update.”
The note went on to say that Apple had stopped distributing the update and informed Wolfram that there is no workaround for the problem.
Wolfram gave customers a script to disable Mathematica’s 64-bit capabilities until Apple issues a new security update to rectify the problem -- the application works fine in 32-bit mode. In its note to customers, Wolfram indicated that the Apple update would be released “in the very near future.”
Apple representatives were not immediately available to comment on this story.
Oh, my!
Whatever will the Macheads say?
Latest Security Update makes 64bit apps stop working!!!
Re download and install Security Update 2005-007 (See it did indeed have a license to kill... 64 bit apps!) PING!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
I believe they will say "Oops!" as Swordmaker just did, and call for a speedy fix.
Dang that money grubbing Bill Gates and his incompetent Micro$$oft corporation....
What?.....
Oh.----- Nevermind
/emily litella
Hope they get it fixed in time for the G5 Mac minis.
That was quick.
Apparently, Apple omitted the 64-bit library in the previous update.
Pretty stupid to overlook.
I remember once when Apple's install CD's came out of their factory with the WDEF virus on it.
Not a big deal since it was a non-destructive virus... Just sat on your hard drive, duplicated itself disks, and infected other systems. Only way you found out your system was infected was if you ran virus detection software.
Impossible. Ask any MacMoonie - the iCult toy computers are perfect in every way.
I remember when WDEF was going around about 15 years ago. I haven't seen any virus problems on a Mac since then.
and, no, that wasn't misspelled.
Are you so insecure in your choice of computer you have to be insulting to those who have not made the same choice?
Nah, it's just fun to be reminded how brittle Macmoonies can be.
My recollection was that it came out on a floppy disk from MacWorld, not on a factory distribution disk... but it would have been possible. I was using Amiga's back then (1989 and Mac OS6.0.4) and really wasn't paying attention to the Mac issues.
So you have to do the "reminding" on every Mac thread. I see.
Says a lot more about you.
Go hang out on any Windows thread and watch the Macmoonies descend, with their sanctimonious claptrap and yammering about their alleged computers that can't run 90% of the software for sale.
I don't remember Apple shipping anything with WDEF, but in 1998, a magazine called "MacAddict" shipped a CD-ROM containing the "AutoStart Worm".
It's not hanks fault he has to post negative remarks about Apple Macs. It’s hard for him to get his laptop working, the knobs on his etch-e-sketch fell off.
You’ve got to admit Macmoonies is a pretty funny.
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