Subj : talking to myself
To   : Russell Tiedt
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Tue Feb 15 2005 09:01 am

Hey Russell!

Feb 15 16:56 05, Russell Tiedt wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 RT> Thereafter one needs to make it "meaningfull" :-))

I agree wholeheartedly.  If it is indeed a desirable variable then it should be 
a useful variable across the board and not some hodge-podge local solution.  
Make it a real network standard or just drop the damn thing altogether.

 RT> That leaves the question of how does one generate/create/format a 
 RT> "meaningfull" base ID, and still leave enough "space to add 
 RT> "uniqueness"

So far the base ID generated before the msg creation loop, based on a date/time 
call, seems to generate the most useable result.  Two more characters (10 
instead of just eight) viewed as a hex string with a predetermed set of hex 
digit(s) as unique variables produces the most useable ID string here at 
Kumalockasun.  So far the best I can come up with is, yydddmmssx, where yy=two 
digit year (100 years), ddd=day of year, mm=minutes, ss=seconds, and x=actual 
message number incremented in the message creation loop which would then limit 
pkt sizes to a total of 16 messages.  If more then 16 messages then the entire 
cycle is repeated and the ss part incremented by one if the first pass took 
less then a second, which is entirely possible, actually probable here for a 
whole sh*tload of pkts.  :-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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