[Qt-interest] [OT] QUuid with QUuid::Time

[Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch]

Eirik Ulvik wrote on Monday, June 14, 2010 2:17 PM:

> I think you really can discard the probability of duplicate QUuid's
> on Windows. See
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39771/is-a-guid-unique-100-of-the-time
> or many other online resources.

Hehe, I am not sure whether one of the comments is meant to be serious:

"As a side note, I was playing around with Volume GUIDs in Windows XP. This is a very obscure partition layout with three disks and fourteen volumes.

[List of Volume GUIDs, all ending with 806d6172696f]

It's not that the GUIDs are very similar but the fact that all GUIDs have the string "mario" in them. Is that a coincidence or is there an explanation behind this? "

But the answer certainly is very funny:

"Remember that Super Mario Bros 3 ad from the 80's? All those people yelling "Mario! Mario! Mario!" around the world upset the randomness of the universe a bit."

;)

Cheers, Oliver
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Oliver Knoll
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