Hand Editing the XML

[Josh Sled]

"Karl Grant" <karlgrant06 at gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks for your replies. I meant 32 char (512 bit that would be). I'm not
> much of a programmer or scripter so i'll just have to manually enter them.
> Just out of curiosity, how is the GUID created. I'm assuming it's just a
> unique key for the record, but does it encode anything else?

32 char * 8 bits/char = 256 bits

But the GUID is in hexadecimal, so there's only 4 bits/hex-char, or 128 bits
of information there.

The GUID is enitrely random; `uuidgen | tr -d - | tr a-f A-F` will generate a
reasonable one.

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...jsled
http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo ${a}@${b}
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