Re: x11-Beta for 'Jaguar'
Re: x11-Beta for 'Jaguar'
- Subject: Re: x11-Beta for 'Jaguar'
- From: Jeff Shapiro <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 19:34:45 -0700
- Organization: Nensha
Rich Cook was seen on 4/1/05 3:47 PM talking about:
> Any day now! The latest release has gone Golden Master.
>
Yup, this is a great story:
(From the recent TidBITs newsletter)
Mac OS X 10.4 Easter Egg Found and Lost
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by Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
This story comes from Littleton, MA, where TidBITS reader Nancy
Kotary writes:
"Recently the weather here turned very cold (again!), and right
about the same time, I noticed my 15-inch PowerBook G4 was acting
up. I'd come home to find all sorts of weird windows open, or new
folders on the Desktop with names like "ag899uiogheo". I was about
to take it in for repairs when I accidentally discovered the
cause: I'd been leaving the computer open, and my cat had taken
to lying on the warm keyboard.
"I didn't have the heart to close the computer after that, and
besides, it was sort of fun to see what sort of random havoc the
cat would cause. Yesterday, though, I got surprise when I peered
over the cat's curled-up form at the PowerBook screen and saw
that Software Update was running and some huge download was in
progress. It took four or five hours to complete, and when it was
finished, it turned out to be the golden master installer image
for Mac OS 10.4! I was able to burn the disk and install that
same day - for free!"
Our conjecture is that there must be some secret combination of
keys which causes Software Update to "see" the Mac OS X 10.4
installer as an available download. Perhaps this was put in as
an Easter Egg (all this happened surprisingly close to Easter),
or maybe it was just a convenient way for the Apple folks to
obtain the latest build during development. There's no way to
learn what combination of keys and buttons the cat may have
pressed, so, like the Lost Chord, this feat of downloading a
free Mac OS X 10.4 installer will probably never be repeated.
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