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Apple posts Security Update 2007-005 for Tiger and Panther
Available via software update or the download pages below. For detailed information, see Apple's About Security Update 2007-005 doc.

As mentioned in the docs, Security Update 2007-004 has also been incorporated into this security update.

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Star Wars: Empire at War 1.05 rev A Update
MU today lists a Star Wars: Empire at War 1.05 rev A update:

    " Version 1.05 rev A:
  • Fixes issue where there was no discernible difference between low and medium water detail
  • Adds support for pixel shader 3.0
  • Enables the Heat distortion and soft shadows features
    Requirements:
    Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later, Intel Mac, Video Card (ATI): Radeon X1600, Video Card (NVidia): Geforce 7300, Video Chipset (Intel): GMA 950 or better, 64MB VRAM.
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Tip for No Video at Windows Install w/X1900 XT (MacPro)
From a recent reader mail (this had come up before and apparently is still an issue, although there's a workaround)

" I just returned home from college to find my new Mac Pro, including 2GB RAM and an ATI X1900 XT. The monitor I'm using is a ViewSonic VA1912wb (19" widescreen). We have no other monitors in our house that have DVI ports.

I am using Boot Camp 1.2 (just downloaded today). All my software is upgraded, and my firmware is upgraded (in the System Profiler, the Boot ROM version matches the one listed on the Apple site, and it came that way).

I'm having the EXACT same problem as Eli. After partitioning my drive and inserting the Windows XP disc (I've also tried it with Vista), I hit Start Installation. The computer restarts, I see the gray screen, then it turns black, my monitor comes up saying "No Signal (Digital)", and then goes into Standby mode. If I turn it off and on again, I see the same No Signal message before it goes back into Standby. I've moved the DVI connection between the left and right ports on the Mac Pro multiple times, and I've even tried different keyboard/mouse combos. Nothing.

Please let me know if any fixes are posted. Being able to use Boot Camp was key in my decision to buy a Mac Pro, and if I can't get it to work, I don't know what I'm going to do.

(I asked if he had a CRT (VGA) monitor to try with the X1900 card using a DVI/VGA adapter - as the DVI-I ports have analog video pins also. This was a previous workaround for this problem-Mike)
Yep, I just recently tried it with a VGA monitor from downstairs, and it worked fine. Now that it's installed, I can use XP with my monitor (though, like many people on your site, I don't see the splash screen).
-Jake "

I've added this tip to the FAQ's intel-CPU Mac section also. I had previously written an ATI (Mac) contact about this when it first came up months ago (in the news page and Boot Camp Feedback/Tips/Docs page), but it's still an issue even in the latest shipping hardware apparently. (I searched apple's bootcamp/support section and found nothing new on this - surely they must know about it. Granted their official policy is no support for bootcamp/Windows but you'd think they'd at least have a note in some of their BootCamp docs about this by now.)

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Pioneer DVR-K06 drive reliability reports page updated
I've updated the page of recent Feedback on Pioneer DVR-K06 Drive Reliability with another reader's mail on failures in a PowerBook G4 and iMac G5. (He later wrote that he'd gotten about 200 discs burned each before they failed. Some of the earlier reports mentioned failures after only a few discs, sometimes repeated 'infant' failures.)
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