14 DAY TRIAL // Lately it seems that there is no shortage of problems with Apple's products, both software and hardware. While solutions for most of them are still pending, the company has been issuing various updates.
The iPods have had some of the kinks worked out with a recent patch for the iPod classic, the 5G iPod and the 3G iPod nano. In the case of the fifth generation iPod, version 1.2.3 of the software fixes several bugs the most important of which was related to the inability to display any songs or other content after being updated to iPod software version 1.2.2. In the case of the classic and video nano, version 1.0.3 is also mostly dedicated to bug, including problems with the clock, play counts being affected by games, Cover Flow and last but not least a spinning disk issue that sometimes occurred on the Classic. Users only need to sync the iPod in order for the relevant updates to be made.
In Apple's other product lines, the Xserve has received some attention, the company updating the Xserve Lights-Out Management. Firmware Update 1.1 will modify the Lights-Out Management environment, addressing the intermittent issue that causes the LOM port to be unresponsive. The company recommends that all Intel-based Xserve systems receive the update, which will be installed into the /Applications/Server folder of the destination volume. Users will have to run the application in order to actually complete the update on the Xserve system.
Considering the number of problems that have been cropping up regarding the latest version of both Leopard and Tiger, the company is likely already working on the next round of patches, but this might take a while. Between this and the QuickTime vulnerability, the company's reputation for solid code has slipped a little, but with luck this is just a spot of turbulence, and will be over soon.