Re: Unique ID
Re: Unique ID
- Subject: Re: Unique ID
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:27:37 -0800
At 21:39 +1100 1/31/2002, David Lloyd wrote:
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A way would be to use the creator date of the startup disk - there wouldn't
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be too many machines about that share a creation date of the same date and
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time to the second.
Are you sure Apple* doesn't clone disks at the bit level, at least for a
production run of identical hardware. [Not necessarily identical...it was
noticed a while back that at that time, Apple was shipping disks with
slightly differing potential capacities formatted so that they were all the
smallest size.]
*or Apple's contractors
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA