Apple Quietly Fixes DTrace

In January we discussed a blog entry revealing that Apple had "crippled" its DTrace port. As the author notes in a followup post, to say that DTrace had been "crippled" was at least overstated: "Unfortunately, most reactions seized on a headline paraphrasing a line of the post — albeit with the critical negation omitted." In an updated entry, the poster notes that Apple has made good (so we have too): "One issue was that timer based probes wouldn't fire if certain applications were actively executing (e.g. iTunes). This was evident both by counting periodic probe firings, and by the absence of certain applications when profiling. The good news is that Apple has (quietly) fixed the problem in Mac OS X 10.5.3."

Good going apple!

[YeeHaW_Jelte]

Your evilness index has just dropped from 45.8 to 45.3

Keep up the good work!

Re:Good news

[Anonymous Coward]

That's just sad. You shouldn't flash those numbers in public.

"Quietly"

[Plantain]

What did you want, a friggin' parade?

Jeez, give a fruit a break.

Re:Took them long enough

[somersault]

Obviously DRM crackers are incapable of this level of ingenuity (if you live in cuckoo land that is..)

Re:Took them long enough

[NMerriam]

Argumentum ad verecundiam. I've been seeing people make claims like this for almost 25 years now, and I have yet to see a single credible study that supports it.

Anyone who has spent a day answering phones on a tech support line can confirm that mixing up mouse buttons is a common issue.

"right click on the icon"
"double click?"
"no, ma'am, click the right button on your mouse"
"how do I know which button is the right one?"

Re:Took them long enough

[Anonymous Coward]

Mac users- unable to differentiate between the right and left mouse buttons. They should put that in the next "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC commercial".