No obstante, estos son los pasos, por si acaso al Zune se le olvida tomarse su café mañanero:

1. Disconnect your Zune from USB and AC power sources.
2. Because the player is frozen, its battery will drain—this is good. Wait until the battery is empty and the screen goes black. If the battery was fully charged, this might take a couple of hours.
3. Wait until after noon GMT on January 1, 2009 (that's 7 a.m. Eastern or 4 a.m. Pacific time).
4. Connect your Zune to either a USB port on the back or your computer or to AC power using the Zune AC Adapter and let it charge. (http://www.zune.net)

Si un error en codificación pudo congelar una gran parte de los Zune 30 alrededor del mundo, no quisiera saber que Microsoft o cualquier otra compañia pudiera congelar si decidieran, como Pinky y Cerebro, "Take over the World".

Por si acaso, guarden sus discos de vinyl y "8 Tracks" para la despedida del 2009.

Microsoft, sin regalarnos "downloads" gratis por dos dias por todos los daños y perjuicios causados durante el día de ayer y la mañana de hoy, nos brinda la solucion oficial a nuestra más horrorosa pesadilla…

Mathew Arkin, socio de Microsoft nos escribe:

"On behalf of Microsoft and the Zune team, I would like to apologize for any inconveniences caused by the zune issues today. There was a coding error in the internal clock driver used in the 2006 Zune 30. The internal clock will reset itself at 12 noon GMT or 7am EST. Thus repairing any issues you are experiencing. Once again sorry for any inconveniences." (http://www.zuneuser.com/forums/t/FrozenScreen-388...

¡¿Es Y2K en el 2009?!

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Tal vez este sea el momento para actualizar mis canciones y mis fotos.

"Customers using the Zune 30 might experience problems starting their players. We're aware of the problem and are working to correct it. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for your patience!" (http://www.zune.net).

Perdonen, Microsoft no ha colocado esta excusa para calmar nuestros pensamientos de paranoia en español.

Por el momento, las únicas soluciones no-oficiales son
1. Utilizar el Zune como papelera ("paper holder")
2. Llorar y preguntarnos porque no compramos un IPod y habernos unido al clan de Jobs; y
3. La ofrecida por nuestros activos usuarios de TecnCtrl y orar al TodoPoderoso de la Tecnologia(en estos momentos no estamos seguros si las oraciones deben ser dirigidas a Gates o a Jobs) que no dañemos nada dentro de la unidad.

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The Zune frontend first accesses the clock toward the end of the boot sequence. Doing this triggers the code that reads the clock and converts it to a date and time. Below is the part of this code that determines the year component of the date:

Under normal circumstances, this works just fine. The function keeps subtracting either 365 or 366 until it gets down to less than a year’s worth of days, which it then turns into the month and day of month. Thing is, in the case of the last day of a leap year, it keeps going until it hits 366. Thanks to the if (days > 366), it stops subtracting anything if the loop happens to be on a leap year. But 366 is too large to break out of the main loop, meaning that the Zune keeps looping forever and doesn’t do anything else.