Tag: zune
Music - Zero 7 “Destiny”
by Jon on Jan.04, 2009, under Misc Items
When working with my friend Eddie he would often make some great music recommendations that were posted on my old blog. One of them was Zero 7’s song ‘Destiny’. Its one of my favorites so I’m going to add is back to the site and place it on my 4gb Zune (the one that didn’t get Z2k9′d)
I survived Z2K9
by Jon on Jan.02, 2009, under Misc Items
So it was early on Dec 31st a coworker said:
“Hey, let me see your Zune … oh wow … we get to see it live”
My Zune was broke and I didn’t know it .
My secondary audio player is an older 30GB Zune player. Apparently there is a bug in the firmware that runs particular date functions. On December 31st 2008 which is a leap year, all zune devices were thrown into a continuous loop. Taken from another site the source of the bug may look like the following. Apparently the code does not handle the case of when the number of days in the year equals 366.
while (days > 365)
{
if (IsLeapYear(year))
{
if (days > 366)
{
days -= 366;
year += 1;
}
}
else
{
days -= 365;
year += 1;
}
}
Next day the Zune booted just fine and all was well. Now I don’t feel do bad when debugging problems with some of my code that uses loops. :)
