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Zune-as-a-brick was an infinite loop

Sheer awesomeness. The bug that bricked all those 30GB Zunes on 31st December 2008 was an infinite loop. […]

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PCPlus 256: Measure your code

I write a monthly column for PCPlus, a computer news-views-n-reviews magazine in the UK (actually there are 13 issues a year — there's an Xmas issue as well — so it's a bit more than monthly). The column is called Theory Workshop and appears in the back of every issue. When I signed up, my editor and the magazine were gracious enough to allow me to reprint the articles here after say a year or so. After all, the PDFs do appear on each issue's DVD after a couple of months. […]

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Hacked off with Symantec

I just got back to my main desktop, only to find the Norton Security Scan running with a scanning window showing. Fair enough you might say, except that I'd uninstalled it 2 days ago. WTF? […]

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