Re: Machine serial number
Re: Machine serial number
- Subject: Re: Machine serial number
- From: "Nathan V. Roberts" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 16:55:56 -0500
Anyway, why do you need a unique identifier in the first place?
It will be a seed for software registration; so I'm after something
that's fairly immutable with the machine. I posted this question on
the Java list, actually asking for the MAC address specifically, and
various people pointed out issues with that: plurality is possible,
many people have removable NICs in laptops, and with gigabit ethernet
getting cheap, many people will be upgrading... On the Macintosh, of
course, these may be less of an issue, because AFAIK all Macs that
support OS X have on-board Ethernet, and there may be a way to access
the on-board one (as opposed to the active one, which might be
removable, etc.) in particular.
But it would be better still if I could get at Apple's serial number;
that seems more designed for this sort of purpose. The Windows (pure
or near-pure Java) version will ship later, and we will probably need
to address registration there differently.
Thanks,
Nathan Roberts