pimg src=”http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/500x_ps3-ok.jpg” class=”left image500″ width=”500″ /Remember December 31st, 1999? The lines of people at supermarkets, stockpiling tins of baked beans and bottled water, convinced the millennium bug would strike at midnight? Turns out the a href=”http://gizmodo.com/5482365/error-8001050f-takes-down-playstation-network”PS3 Error 8001050F/a was a millennium bug 10-years in the making./p
pThe PlayStation blog has been a href=”http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/03/playstation-network-service-restored/”updated/a with Patrick Seybold, the senior director of corporate communications writing:/p
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p”We are aware that the internal clock functionality in the PS3 units other than the slim model, recognized the year 2010 as a leap year. Having the internal clock date change from February 29 to March 1 (both GMT), we have verified that the symptoms are now resolved and that users are able to use their PS3 normally.”/p
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pa href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem#Year_2010_problem”According/a to Wikipedia, other electronics such as debit card machines in shops, and phones have been affected by the “Y2K+10″ or “Y2.01k” millennium bug, due to problems encoding binary numbers. Apparently a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10425455-56.html”even Windows Mobile has had problems/a this year! Apart from the obvious, of course. [a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/03/playstation-network-service-restored/"PlayStation blog/a via a href="http://kotaku.com/5483187/ps3-error-8001050f-the-nightmare-may-be-over-%5Bupdated%5D"Kotaku/a]/pbr clear=”both” style=”clear: both;”/
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