Strange Bug

I've been having a strange problem ever since I got my iPod touch over christmas, and that is that whenever I connect my iPod to my computer, it resets the date and time to a random time in 2007. I was wondering if this had happened to anyone before, and if anyone knew how to fix it. Also, although there seems to be an option to make the clock either 12 or 24 hour, I can't actually change it.
Message was edited by: Gotosan

Loads of people are having this problem, But apple haven't done anything to fix it. Most people seem to think the problem is with itunes or quicktime. The only way i have found to stop it happening to me is to only plug in the ipod touch when itunes is closed. Open itunes once it's connected.
As for the 24 hour thing, thats also very annoying, but can't be changed. Do you have your region format set to uk? when it is set to uk, you cant change it. You can only get it on 12 hour time once it's in the american region format.
thanks

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Another interesting aspect is that artefacts don't appear if I hide the background (which is a large bitmapFilled quad with a colortransform).
Here is another example during his attack, we can clearly see some bounding rectangles of my crabman, especially around the claw. I added a close-up on the artefact and a screen grab of the atlas I use.
EDIT: As a complimentary information, the artefacts don't appear if I remove the ColorTransforms that I apply on the characters and the background.
EDIT 2 : The artefacts don't appear in LOW stage quality (which is insufficient for my purposes). The higher the anti-aliasing, the more present the artefacts are.
Have you experienced similar artefacts? Is there a workaround? Am I doing something evil that breaks the Flash renderer?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Phil

Hi Phil,
We'd be happy to take a look, but we'll need to run it under a C++ debugger to really understand what's going on. If possible, it would be great if you could strip this down to a super simple example. It will make it much faster for us to debug.
Please file a bug here:
http://bugbase.adobe.com/
If you're not comfortable posting examples or details in the public bug, send me a private message and I can pass the information along in our private channels.
Thanks,
Jeromie

Possible strange bug with parallel loops in LV2010

I have a specific code which does not execute correctly in parallel, but making almost any small change to the code causes it to work. Even more bizarre, I can change it so that it sometimes works correctly, and somtimes doesn't. Interested? Read on...
I have a relatively simple VI (to compute 2D Wavelet Denoising on planes of a 3D array) with the following block diagram (debugging not allowed):
The parallel loop is set to 8 automatically-partitioned instances, and I've tested this on 2-core and 8-core machines. When the #cores wired into the loop is not one, several of the iterations do not compute (for example 4 out of 24). I can check this by putting a break in the VI called inside the loop and counting how many times it is called.
I can do a number of things to make all iterations run:
- put an indicator inside the loop on the iteration number, or anything else (except the P node)
- wire the iteration number outside the loop to an indicator
- remove the case structure
- remove the loop in the other case (it's at the moment identical except for a call to a different VI which uses Discrete WT instead of Undecimated WT -- if I change the other case to match this one, the other case runs fine but this one still fails)
- change code outside the loop
- turn on debugging!
- change the loop setup to another number of instances other than 8
- change the loop setup to set the number of partitions
I can also do a number of things that do not solve the problem:
- rewriting the loop from scratch
- copying the loop from the other case
- saving for LV2009 (in which everything runs as expected) and then reloading (and presumably recompiling) in 2010
Stranger still, if I replace the called VI with a dummy VI (which simply adds one to the input 2D array so I can tell if it executes), then as long as the other wires are still wired in, it sometimes executes all iterations, and sometimes doesn't (roughly 50% split)!!! Any other changes and it always works fine.
I've managed to replace as much as possible with dummy code and still keep the results the same (i.e. sometimes executing all iterations and sometimes not).
If you want to check it out (on a multicore machine with LV2010), run LoopTest.vi, and the results at the index shown should sometimes be 13 and sometimes 14. Changing #cores to 1 will always give a result of 14, changing WT to DWT always gives 14, even though the code inside both cases is identical!
Hope it's not just me, otherwise I'll be sure that LV hates me!
Attachments:
LoopTest.zip ‏355 KB

OK, here's a new version that exhibits the same behaviour, but is hopefully simpler to understand.
The expected result is to add one to the whole array, however sometimes not all of the parallel iterations are executed. Run ParallelLoopTest.vi from the attached ZIP file on a multi-core machine to verify. This screenshot shows that sometimes it works correctly, and sometimes not:
The code in the other case is identical (created by duplicating the case) but always works correctly.
Attachments:
ParallelLoopTest.zip ‏63 KB

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