Most Apple owners are familiar with the UDID, aka serial number, for their iOS device, but did you know that your Mac has a similar hardware UUID too? In this post, I will show you where to find it, ...

File systems and UUIDs have a special relationship on Linux systems. What are these very long identifiers and how can you view the connections between them and disk partitions? The /etc/fstab file is ...

I'm programming in C/C++. I'm trying to communicate with a USB device using the SetupDi* functions from the Windows Driver Kit. To start, I need to create a GUID struct that I pass to ...

Let's say I have no more than a few hundred UUIDs, the set of which will only be updated rarely. Let's furthermore say I want to, at runtime, check if an arbitrary UUID belongs to said predefined set.

There are a variety of reasons why developers use globally unique identifiers (GUIDs), such as assigning unique identifiers to classes or when dealing with databases. This tip contains sample code ...