-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 07-Feb-2018 21:59 <=-   
      
    NB>> You'll just have to report on it when/if you do...  :)   
      
    MK> For sure.  First I have to check if the store in question does have it   
    MK> in stock and at what price.  If the price is right I'll have to come   
    MK> up with an excuse to buy and try it out.    
      
   True, finding it available is the first step... and hopefully for not   
   too much...  ;)   
      
    MK> Speaking of trying things out, I was looking at a version 2 UUID and   
    MK> tried replacing the 48 bit MAC address with an extra-special Fidonet   
    MK> address containing a 12 bit user number which would assure every user   
    MK> of a particular BBS an unique identifier as part of the UUID.  For   
    MK> example "Maurice Kinal" 48 bit hex id would be 100991b59bad.  With the   
    MK> current datetime then the UUID would be;   
    MK> f4635300-0c54-11e8-9dd1-100991b59bad.  Knowing the UUID's version,   
    MK> then running 'uuidparse' yields;    
    MK> ----- ':read !uuidparse f4635300-0c54-11e8-9dd1-100991b59bad'   
    MK> starts UUID                                  VARIANT TYPE       TIME   
    MK> f4635300-0c54-11e8-9dd1-100991b59bad  DCE     time-based 2018-02-07   
    MK> 22:19:25,173632+0000 ----- ':read !uuidparse   
    MK> f4635300-0c54-11e8-9dd1-100991b59bad' ends    
    MK> Note that the fractional part of the datetime is in microseconds.   
      
   Interesting experiment... :)   
      
    MK> For the record, Little Mikey's 48 bit hex id would be 100991b59000.    
    MK> The last 3 nibbles is what makes the Fidonet node's unique to a   
    MK> specific user.  The first 9 nibbles is the hex representation of the   
    MK> Little Mikey's node number, 1:153/7001.    
      
   So then random number actually is a coded version of the BBS's id, the   
   time and the user's name...  I can see where that would end up being   
   essentially unique... :)   
      
   ttyl         neb   
      
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