September security update is out

why is it that whenever apple releases an update or an update through software update, someone always has to post a new thread concerning it. whoever needs to update, can read for themselves the breif summary that apple gives through su. you dont need to post a new thread to inform all of us. sorry for sounding a bit rude its just SOOOOOOOO annoying!
and then 50 people go ahead and start NEW threads talking about the same thing (maybe exaggerating it a little too much but still...). why dont you just organize all your thoughts in the same thread! right now i see at least two threads about the security update of september.
 
yeah well, i dont always read them. it just floods the forum...same topic but 5 different threads. just say what you have to say in the thread dedicated to that discussion. whoever posts baout it first will be the starter of the thread.
 
I looked before posting it and didn't see any thread about it. If someone else has already posted it then I missed it. If I had seen it, I wouldn't have posted a duplicate thread.
 
I think it's great to tell people when there's an update, if i didn't see it here it might have been a few days before i updated. So thanx for the heads up.
 
Actually, I am grateful for the announcements, since I get to the internet via a proxy, and SW doesn't work for me at all. So the main way for me to get info about updates is announcements here, and I can then go to the Apple site and download it.

Unfortunately not everyone's connection to the internet allows Software Update to work its magic.
 
I don't mind the updates...

...but to those people that can't use SW update for some reason:
subscribe to the versiontracker mailing list. You'll get an email every day with software updates, including apple's updates.

Javier
BTW>I have 4 macs running OSX behind a proxy. SW update works fine on all of them. Maybe there is a problem with SW update that you can fix...
 
Okay. The forum reads 'Mac News & Rumors Discussion'. So a thread about a Security Update is perfectly okay. But creating a thread just stating that a security update has been released is not the right thing. It's just not interesting, really. If somebody knew about the FLAW that it fixes, now that would make for a nice discussion. But this update is *so* UNspectacular that it doesn't really need its own thread.

The opposite is the case with 'real' sytem updates, like for example 10.2.1. People anticipate these updates and threads are created even before the software appears. (Rumours.) And then, when the thingie appears in SU (su would be the Terminal command 'superuser' while SU would be Software Update), everyone is eager to create the first thread about it.

People who need to be informed about software updates should really use versiontracker.com. Access it twice a day and you're set. The list for a day is not THAT long, really, you might need five minutes to go through it, if you care to read about the specific new releases, but you'll spend much too much time if you try to find software updates in a forum like macosx.com.
 
My thought was that this thread belonged in the OS section instead of here. Since the thread is appropriately named, I come in here voluntarily knowing full well what lies within. So hooray for proper subject naming.

Anyway, if an OS update isn't news, is complaining about the lack of news in itself a form of news? Oh the quandary.
 
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