From: nowhere@never.at   
      
   On 11/02/2024 21:08, Dan Cross wrote:   
   [about globally unique]   
   >>>> why was it that hard to get this info :)   
   >>>   
   >>> ...it's not?  I mean, did you try to look it up?   
   >>   
   >> of course I did.   
   >> I found several hundreds sites who mentioned globally unique ID and only   
   >> two showed a couple of 16 byte values but nothing what I searched for.   
   >> And replies except the one from Alex missed to tell that I can download   
   >> a never used new GUID.   
      
   > He literally linked you to Wikipedia.   
   yes, but with useful patterns.   
      
   >  Didn't you search for "how to generate a UUID"?   
   yes, but I found just "random" rather than "unique".   
   timestamps algorithm are by far not guarantied to be unique.   
   So I could use my disk's VendorID+SerialNr+date+time, even really unique   
   this wouldn't become registered then (WTF who cares?)   
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   wolfgang   
      
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