Subj : same as it ever was To : Nancy Backus From : Maurice Kinal Date : Wed Feb 07 2018 21:59:29 Hey Nancy! NB> You'll just have to report on it when/if you do... :) For sure. First I have to check if the store in question does have it in stock and at what price. If the price is right I'll have to come up with an excuse to buy and try it out. Speaking of trying things out, I was looking at a version 2 UUID and tried replacing the 48 bit MAC address with an extra-special Fidonet address containing a 12 bit user number which would assure every user of a particular BBS an unique identifier as part of the UUID. For example "Maurice Kinal" 48 bit hex id would be 100991b59bad. With the current datetime then the UUID would be; f4635300-0c54-11e8-9dd1-100991b59bad. Knowing the UUID's version, then running 'uuidparse' yields; ----- ':read !uuidparse f4635300-0c54-11e8-9dd1-100991b59bad' starts UUID VARIANT TYPE TIME f4635300-0c54-11e8-9dd1-100991b59bad DCE time-based 2018-02-07 22:19:25,173632+0000 ----- ':read !uuidparse f4635300-0c54-11e8-9dd1-100991b59bad' ends Note that the fractional part of the datetime is in microseconds. For the record, Little Mikey's 48 bit hex id would be 100991b59000. The last 3 nibbles is what makes the Fidonet node's unique to a specific user. The first 9 nibbles is the hex representation of the Little Mikey's node number, 1:153/7001. Life is good, Maurice .... Cybertoasts of note: 2019-01-01 is 328 days from now and falls on a Tuesday. 2024-11-05 is 2463 days from now and falls on a Tuesday. --- GNU bash, version 4.4.18(1)-release (x86_64-silvermont-linux-gnu) * Origin: Little Mikey's Brain - Ladysmith BC, Canada (1:153/7001) .