Bryce Boe

The Adventures of a UCSB Computer Science Ph.D. Student

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Month: July, 2008

Reviving priceTrackr

4 July, 2008 (01:07) | General | By: Bryce Boe

So I left work a little early today because they weren’t serving dinner tonight and because I had some stuff to take care of. Most importantly I was contacted by this guy Tom, an EE major at University of Illinois, who would like to donate a server and help improve priceTrackr. So I of course [...]

Wednesday WTF #1

2 July, 2008 (16:03) | General | By: Bryce Boe

I came across this today and am very curious as to why this is:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107666
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).
After reading this I decided I must [...]