October 1, 2009

In the search for the subtle source of the problem, you sometimes overlook the obvious one

October 1, 2009 Oct 1, 2009 10/1/09

Raymond Chen

A customer was encountering a problem with lots of duplicate GUIDs. How is that possible? The whole point of the GUID generation algorithm is to work hard to avoid duplication. Was one of the fundamental assumptions of the algorithm broken? Maybe there was a duplicate MAC? Was the clock regressing? One of my colleagues pointed out that in ...

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A Few Seconds of Panic: Life as an NFL kicker

In the search for the subtle source of the problem, you sometimes overlook the obvious one