Please be careful, as there are quite a few reports of problems with this particular update.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1005263&tstart=0

I certainly won't be applying it for a while, to see how the dust settles.

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Palindromic would be 10.4.01.... Which would be silly.

A Palindrome reads the same from left to right:

AnnA

HannaH

10.4.01

so nerrr... :o)

Sorry guys,

10.4.10 is not a proper palindrome.

"Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas."

Now that is a proper palindrome.

The Wikipedia site shows the release history of MacOS is full of palindromes, what's so exciting about this one, which isn't?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_history

A palindrome it isn't.

It's a bit like saying something is "almost unique". It's either unique or it's not.

No wonder Apple don't invite El Reg to their shows!

Come on, you're all computer people, you should know this.

It's a palindrome at the token level, not the character level. Or another way to look at it, it's a palindrome if the numbers are taken in hexadecimal: A.4.A.

English palindromes have a very similar problem, which we just blithely ignore. The example given, "Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.", is not a palindrome because of different spacing, punctuation and capitalization. What, you say it is? Then you should accept the token-level version number palindrome.

The poster who cites Wikipedia showing the release history "full of palindromes" is only partly correct. There are a bunch of early versions like "3.3", but these are barely palindromes. "6.0.6" is the only previous 3-element example, and it was never actually released.

...than Apple's previous cryptic updates.

For example...

System 7.5.2 got you 7.5.2. But, System 7.5 Update 2.0 got you System 7.5.3. And they weren't cumulative. It was much uglier back then.

Always do the Software Updates on my Mac's, never again.. a 5 month old Mac Mini is in a right state after this update - there is no other reason than the latest security update. I've read all the forums on the subject and have yet to find a fix. The thing won't start up, the fan is working hard enough to cool Metallica's drummer mid set, and when I force it to start up, the finder freezes.

Not impressed.