While the rumor mill is focused on Apple developing a larger-screen iPod touch, the blogosphere is churning with angry reports about frozen 30GB Microsoft Zunes.<\/p>\n
Discussions board like ZuneUser.com, ZuneScene.com and Zune.net offer first-hand accounts of the problems with Microsoft’s music player. It seems the Zunes reboot, then freeze once the status bar reaches 100 percent.<\/p>\n
Some are calling it the “Z2K” problem, playing off the infamous Y2K bug that many thought would throw the computing industry in chaos at the beginning of the century when dates changed from 1999 to 2000. That’s because the problem seems to have started at exactly midnight PST Wednesday — the first moments of the last day of 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Makes me glad I bought an iPod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I haven’t been paying close attention to the news today but this caught my eye: Microsoft’s Zune Hit With Glitch By Jessica Hodgson, Wall Street Journal, December 31, 2009 Microsoft Corp.’s Zune portable music player is suffering from a glitch that may have frozen thousands of units, in the latest setback for the world’s biggest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[187,14],"tags":[396,31,395],"class_list":{"0":"post-1258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-glitch","9":"tag-microsoft","10":"tag-zune","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-ki","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4287,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/16\/yet-another-obamacare-glitch\/","url_meta":{"origin":1258,"position":0},"title":"Yet Another ObamaCare Glitch","author":"Jeff","date":"November 16, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Rember when then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said \"We Have to Pass the Bill So That You Can Find Out What Is In It\"? Well they passed Obamacare and we're quickly discovering that it is deeply flawed piece of legislation. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Health Care"","block_context":{"text":"Health Care","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/health-care\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1124,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/17\/microsoft-patches-critical-ie-bug\/","url_meta":{"origin":1258,"position":1},"title":"Microsoft Patches Critical IE Bug","author":"Jeff","date":"December 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Microsoft has released a special out of cycle update for its Internet Explorer web browser. The update, described in Microsoft's security bulletin MS08-078, fixes a flaw present in all available versions of the popular browser, including IE5.01, IE6, IE7 and IE8 Beta 2. Computerworld has more on the story here.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Computers"","block_context":{"text":"Computers","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/computers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4495,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/05\/big-bay-boom-fireworks-show-a-bust\/","url_meta":{"origin":1258,"position":2},"title":"Big Bay Boom Fireworks Show A Bust","author":"Jeff","date":"July 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"An unknown glitch caused San Diego's Big Bay Boom fireworks show to go bust last night when fireworks for the planned 20 minute show ignited almost simultaneously causing massive fusillade that lit up the night shy and rattled windows on North Island and in the downtown area... The entire show\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Culture"","block_context":{"text":"Culture","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/culture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/JuJHfkXEI-o\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/07\/products-services-mentioned-during-presentation-to-dacs\/","url_meta":{"origin":1258,"position":3},"title":"Products & services mentioned during presentation to DACS","author":"Jeff","date":"April 7, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Alternative Web Browsers Firefox Opera Information on Hoaxes and Urban Ledgeneds Vmyths Hoaxbusters Snopes Must Have Tools Acronis True Image PE Builder (Bart PE) Trend Micro Sysclean Anti-Virus Software F-Prot Anti-Virus F-Secure Anti-Virus or Internet Security Kaspersky AntiVirus or Internet Security Nod32 Anti-Virus or Smart Security Anti-Spyware Software Ad-Aware 2007\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Computers"","block_context":{"text":"Computers","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/computers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4729,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/06\/a-quick-note-on-the-septmeber-jobs-report\/","url_meta":{"origin":1258,"position":4},"title":"A Quick Note On The Septmeber Jobs Report","author":"Jeff","date":"October 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Like most of you I'm still trying to make sense of yesterday's jobs report from the BLS -- Bureau of Labor Statistics... They're contradictory, something just doesn't smell right about them but, I can't put my finger on what it is. I\u2019m not inclined to believe the conspiracy theories simple\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Economy"","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":361,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/14\/bill-jerry-dude\/","url_meta":{"origin":1258,"position":5},"title":"Bill & Jerry… Dude???","author":"Jeff","date":"September 14, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Microsoft has released the second in a series of ads featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld... It's an improvement over the first one but I'm still not sure what Microsoft is trying to accomplish with these ads. Dude, I mean WTF???","rel":"","context":"In "Culture"","block_context":{"text":"Culture","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/culture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}