June 13, 2006

Obscure bug of the month award

From a 2003 bug report on the Mac OS X Open Firmware utility:

If you used Open Firmware Password utility to create a password that contains the capital letter "U", your password will not be recognized during the startup process (when you try to access Startup Manager, for example).

How on earth did that bug creep in? (Thanks to Conrad for the pointer.)

Posted by bug to Snippits at June 13, 2006 10:00 AM | TrackBack
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Perhaps, at Apple, thy vse the Alphabetvm Romanvm.

Posted by: Rebar at June 13, 2006 12:42 PM

Bet you a buck it's related to internationalization.

Posted by: Richard Threadgill at June 13, 2006 1:14 PM
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