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 ...

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, ...

The issue occurs mainly because Remote Procedure Call or RPC which enables the communication between Winlogon and Group Policy service (GPSVC) communications, is already established before the service ...

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 ...

In this post, we will explore the causes and remediation for the logged error event – Event ID 158. The event indicates that two or more disk devices in Windows 11 ...