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March 11, 2008

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It’s Tuesday, so Apple updates AirPort Utility

Posted Mar. 11, ’08, 2:31 PM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Software » Updates

AirPort UtilityUpdate 2: And it’s back!

Update: As a commenter notes below, the update has been removed from Apple’s downloads page.

Of course, Apple couldn’t let a Tuesday fly by without offering something to the devoted fans around the world. After quickly digging through the slips of paper Steve Jobs’s hat, the chosen sacrificial Apple engineer timidly picked out one, upon which was scrawled in green crayon “AirPort Utility 5.3.1.” And so, lo and behold, we are blessed with “general fixes and compatibility updates.” You can get it in Tiger, Leopard, Windows, and chocolate flavors. What? Just wanted to make sure you were paying attention.

Of course, it’s times like this that really call for one of our trademark “vague update haiku.” As always, we are happy to provide this quality service to you, dear readers, at absolutely no extra cost. Ahem.

All your wireless needs
AirPort Utility has
under control. ‘K?

Don’t say they (or we) never gave you nothing. Look: they’re just tuckered out after last week’s iPhone SDK, all right? Cut them some slack.


5 Comments

fletcher Author Profile Page said:

The Airport Utility still can't see the Airport Extreme Base Station that I'm actually connected to! So, I'd say this update is a wash.

I doubt it fixes the bug which is preventing Airport Disk from working as a target for Time Machine as well.

Incidentally, it may be moot since Time Machine itself does not seem to be a valid backup solution when used with any network store. The problem is that if the sparseimage which stores *all* your backups is damaged then it seems largely impossible to recover it. If you lose the disk image you lose all your backups. A damaged backup is no better than having no backup at all.

I imagine this deal killer affects Time Capsule as well.

March 11, 2008 2:48 PM
Paul Nowak said:

Apple took that update away from it's website after 2 or 3hs. This is the first time I see something likt this.

March 11, 2008 4:03 PM
CVBruce said:

Did this get pulled? I can't seem to find it, and the links above are broken.

Looked for Apple Airport Base Station 2008-001 too, and didn't find it.

March 11, 2008 4:27 PM
christopher said:

It appears to be available on Software Update

March 11, 2008 6:01 PM
Heart_Man said:

I just picked up this via Software Update. 8:25 PM MDT

March 11, 2008 7:26 PM

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