Is your Zune suicidal?

[boredsilly]

Thankfully, I don't own one. In case you haven't heard, apparently the original Zune devices aren't Y2K9 compliant. Nice.

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/enter...-31-08-340573/

[streaker69]

Re: Is your Zune suicidal?

Thankfully, I don't own one. In case you haven't heard, apparently the original Zune devices aren't Y2K9 compliant. Nice.

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/enter...-31-08-340573/

I believe, Technically, they weren't Y2k8LY compliant. :)

[boredsilly]

Re: Is your Zune suicidal?

I believe, Technically, they weren't Y2k8LY compliant. :)

Yeah, I guess you're right. I assumed the Zunes sharted themselves when they saw Father Time with his +8 sickle of taxation. :) I'm all for ending it before tax season gets here.

Apparently, there's an update to the fun. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/31...reen-of-death/

[barry99705]

Re: Is your Zune suicidal?

People actually buy these things?

[Thorn]

Re: Is your Zune suicidal?

People actually buy these things?

From what I've been reading in stories regarding the date issue, there's apparently a whole "Zune Good, iPod Bad" culture out there. If someone is dead set against the whole I'll-buy-anything-made-by-Apple trendiness, then the Zune models give some people a different rallying point.

[burncycle]

Re: Is your Zune suicidal?

People actually buy these things?

From what I've heard from the people I know who own Zunes, they are quite impressive and stack up pretty comparably to the iPod, if not better than.

[bascule]

Re: Is your Zune suicidal?

The cause of this is rather funny:

http://www.zuneboards.com/forums/zun...-isolated.html

year = ORIGINYEAR; /* = 1980 */

while (days > 365)
{
    if (IsLeapYear(year))
    {
        if (days > 366)
        {
            days -= 366;
            year += 1;
        }
    }
    else
    {
        days -= 365;
        year += 1;
    }
}

Essentially if it IsLeapYear() and days == 366, then the if(days < 366) branch is never taken. There's no else clause on this branch, so nothing happens. The code stays within the while (days > 365) loop infinitely.

So on the 366th day of a leap year, such as December 31st, 2008, the code just goes into an infinite loop. Whoops.

[0x58]

Re: Is your Zune suicidal?

Apparently the fix was to not do anything at all ... does that seem right to you? (Bonus points if you know what TV show ...)

[barry99705]

Re: Is your Zune suicidal?

From what I've been reading in stories regarding the date issue, there's apparently a whole "Zune Good, iPod Bad" culture out there. If someone is dead set against the whole I'll-buy-anything-made-by-Apple trendiness, then the Zune models give some people a different rallying point.

I have no problems with my original 4Gb iPod.

[Thorn]

Re: Is your Zune suicidal?

I have no problems with my original 4Gb iPod.

My wife has a 30GB iPod, the original video model. It had a couple of minor issues with it locking up, but a firmware upgrade fixed that. I have a 3rd gen. Nano, that I received as promotion. It's given me no problems. I also have a SanDisk Sansa.

I love the iPod interface, but hate iTunes, mainly because it keeps trying to install other Apple software like Safari. Plus it requires QuickTime. After some of the security issues with both of them, I just refuse to use iTunes.

WinAmp is the PC interface for my iPod and the Sansa.