Comments on: GUIDs: Not Necessarily Unique

By: Jeremiah Peschka

Jeremiah Peschka — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:44:16 +0000

V1 GUIDs did this, but there was a big stink about it because you can trace data back to the original machine that generated the GUID. For windows computers, this was changed back with Windows 2000, I do believe.

By: John

John — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:43:47 +0000

I thought the GUID generation algorithm used the MAC address and system time as part of the algorithm. Sounds like a bug in the GUID generation code.

By: Jeremiah Peschka

Jeremiah Peschka — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:47:37 +0000

In honor of the 10th anniversary of Fight Club, it will say “You are doomed because you are not a unique and special snowflake.”

By: Jon Crawford

Jon Crawford — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:46:43 +0000

I can’t help myself – if the 5th attempt fails, are you going to return an error that reads “You are doomed, because you are not unique”?

By: Merrill Aldrich

Merrill Aldrich — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:11:22 +0000

Yeah, when the name was invented they tried PUID (prol’ly unique identifier) and NAUID (nearly always unique identifier) but they just never caught on…