Tuesday, September 8, 2009

JobOrder and Snow Leopard compatibility – more information

We have completed basic testing of JobOrder 2009 on Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6). We found and fixed one problem involving our scheduling plug-in.

If you plan to run Snow Leopard, please download and install JobOrder 2009, which was posted today at:

ftp://ftp.joborder.com/Public/joborder_2009/

One minor change is that the Macintosh operating system will ask for the user password the first time that you print from a new JobOrder session. You may see a dialog similar to the password dialog shown below.



This change is beyond our control in JobOrder 2009 in Snow Leopard. JobOrder 2010, the next major release of JobOrder, is now being programmed and should eliminate the need to enter the Admin password before printing.

One additional point about the Snow Leopard installation that may be important is this report from the Sophos blog:

"Unfortunately during the course of… the Snow Leopard update… Apple downgraded your installation of Flash to an earlier version (version 10.0.23.1), which is known not to be secure and is not patched against various security vulnerabilities. The version you should be running is the latest version of Flash Player for Mac - 10.0.32.18. 
Mac users are not informed that Snow Leopard has downgraded their version of Flash without permission, and that they are now exposed to a raft of potential attacks and exploits which have been targeted on Adobe's software in recent months."

The latest Apple Software Update to Macintosh OS X 10.6.1 will fix this problem.

If we receive any more information about Snow Leopard, we will update the JobOrder blog.

JobOrder works correctly on Windows. None of the above changes affect JobOrder on Windows.

Please email if any of this information needs additional clarification.

Victor Siegle

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