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I have been storing the output of facter in a database with the assumption that uniqueid was actually unique, until I found that it is the same for a handful of my machines. It appears that uniqueid is set from the output of hostid. I checked into hostid and it gets its value from gethostid(). The following link, http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/gethostid.html, states, "This volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 does not define the domain in which the return value is unique." Perhaps uniqueid should be keyed off of a UUID for the system. RedHat provide...

I have been reading a number of the past threads about G.729 licensing., about how the registration keys are linked to the network configurations, limited number of registrations etc, etc. Is there no reason why the decoding can't be done in with some Asterisk compatible hardware, so that once the adapter is bought, all licensing issues go away. In that way the owner could fiddle with the

Hey, Recently, the FIDO alliance announced U2F [1], and Google announced that it supports U2F tokens (?security keys?) for Google accounts [2]. As the spec is not a very short read, I gave a presentation last week about U2F which may be a good quick introduction to the details [3]. For the rest of this mail, I?ll assume that you read either my presentation or the spec, but feel free to post any