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Macworld

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Jan 5, 2009 4:39 PM

ZuneGate ’08: What really happened

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dbater

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Sep 3, 2004

1. Jan 5, 2009 5:09 PM

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Seriously, not enough people really care! Sorry!

-- No great artist ever sees things as they really are; if they did, they would cease to be an artist.

ryanjo

3 posts since
Nov 24, 2003

2. Jan 5, 2009 5:12 PM

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Re: ZuneGate ’08: What really happened

Ah yes, coding. One of the strengths of Microsoft.

I have been told that many banks run MS software on their ATMs. A new world economic catastrophe brewing?

retroMemory

4 posts since
Jul 22, 2008

3. Jan 5, 2009 5:30 PM

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days = 0 instead of days -= 366 or 365 would've done the job.

Wondercow

824 posts since
Jul 21, 2004

4. Jan 5, 2009 5:33 PM

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Re: ZuneGate ’08: What really happened

dbater wrote:
Seriously, not enough people really care! Sorry!

You cared enough to comment.

iTunes, iPod, iMac, iPhone, *not* Itunes, IPod, IMAC, iphone MAC: Media Access Control, Mac: a brand of computers

SandmanX82

12 posts since
Sep 23, 2008

5. Jan 5, 2009 7:33 PM

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This article is somewhat misleading. It was actually a driver created by Toshiba that caused the problem, which incidentally also hit the Toshiba Gigabeat S30 and S60. The first gen Zune is just a rebranded and redesigned Toshiba design.

wiggums

34 posts since
Oct 1, 2008

6. Jan 5, 2009 7:42 PM

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Re: ZuneGate ’08: What really happened

he never said he didn't care.....

jkfrench

1 posts since
Jan 5, 2009

7. Jan 5, 2009 9:25 PM

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Re: ZuneGate ’08: What really happened

I think days starts out as the number of days since 1/1/1980, so if you just set it to zero, you'd only go thru the loop once, and never get past 1981.

But shouldn't those comparisons be greater-than instead of less-than?

MadAxeMan

12 posts since
Jun 2, 2008

8. Jan 5, 2009 10:45 PM

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Re: ZuneGate ’08: What really happened

This code HAS to be bogus, and for this reason:
ORIGINYEAR is set to a constant "1980", sounds good.
But then the variable 'year' is assigned (set) to this same value, oh dear!
Thus this code only check to see if 1980 was a leap year, which of course it was.
This code, as published, NEVER checks if the current year is a leap of not!
Moreover, this code NEVER returns a return-value, which should/would have been caught by the compiler.

Nice try but, if you are going to invent this rubbish, at least get the basics correct.

schafdog

33 posts since
Feb 6, 2008

9. Jan 5, 2009 11:30 PM

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Re: ZuneGate ’08: What really happened

The less than's (<) are wrong. In the originally code they are "greater than" (>) and then you have the inifite loop in a leap year such as 2008.

busterpkeaton

6 posts since
Jan 6, 2009

10. Jan 6, 2009 12:18 AM

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you know what? I'm just really, really, REALLY glad it was Zunes and not 747's that stopped responding...

Kinda scary, though.

flybynight

835 posts since
Jul 21, 2006

11. Jan 6, 2009 6:21 AM

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@busterpkeaton - Wow, can you imagine? Who makes Boeing's OS?

simdude

50 posts since
Apr 1, 2008

12. Jan 6, 2009 6:35 AM

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Re: ZuneGate ’08: What really happened

MadAxeMan,

this is a CODE SNIPPET. the fact there is no closing brace shows this. It is likely there is a return not shown. The variable year is modified inside the while loop so the code is doing a check.

Photonerd

266 posts since
Mar 31, 2005

13. Jan 6, 2009 7:09 AM

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Covering "Zune News" = waste of bandwidth, pure and simple... especially on a Mac-centric site. Most PC users don't even care about Zune so why would Mac users care, other than to make fun of MS?

palane

406 posts since
Nov 18, 2004

14. Jan 6, 2009 7:29 AM

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Photonerd: You just answered your own question:

Most PC users don't even care about Zune so why would Mac users care, other than to make fun of MS?

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