Odds and Ends: iPod Umounting after 1.2.1 update; Apple Issues Internet Explorer Security Advisory; more

iPod Umounting after 1.2.1 update Several users in an Apple discussion thread concur on a problem where iPods will consistently unmount after the iPod Updater 1.2.1 is applied. Raymond Mojica writes:

"After numerous attempts I'm stumped. If I connect my iPod to my computer after 1.2.1 updater has been installed then iTunes launches and a window appears stating that an update is available. After the system prompts for an admin password, I click update and it then unmounts my iPod and says it needs to be mounted to work, tried this with iTunes off, FireWire disk off and any other combo I can think of."

Apple Issues Internet Explorer Security Advisory Apple has issued a security advisory for users of Microsoft Internet Explorer, restating that version 5.2.2 (available from Microsoft's MacBU Web site) resolves potential security vulnerabilities with the validation of digital certificate chains in previous versions of Internet Explorer 5.

Further information is available in the Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-050.

Print Monitor in Classic Bryan Pietrzak points out that while the PrintMonitor extension may have been made obsolete by desktop printing, and therefore disabled on a number of users' systems, it is required by the Classic environment to properly print:

"If the PrintMonitor application is not in the Classic System Folder's Extension folder then all printing from Classic will silently fail. (At least, all printing to an AppleTalk based printer will)."

"As the PrintMonitor app hasn't been used since Desktop Printing came out, I used to routinely disable it. I couldn't figure out why I couldn't print from Classic in 10.2 until I thought about this 'extension'. Sure enough, moving it back into the Extensions folder enabled printing to work from Classic.