Dennis Koerner wrote:
> is there any other way to find a number in every palm that makes it
> unique???
No. You can scheme up some things to make it exceedingly unlikely for
two palms to produce the same ID, but there is no 100% absolute guarantee.
The serial number is a good choice for most flashable devices. As far as I know,
however, Palm has made no solid guarantees about uniqueness. Also, masked ROM
devices (IIIe, all Handspring Visors, etc...) can not programmatically read the serial
number.
You could distribute a conduit with your app which queries a server for a unique ID,
then
store that ID somewhere in the device. This has some associated problems.
You could generate a large random number, using the current time and user name as
a seed. This has a probability of working which is related to the size of your random
number.
You could md5sum the RAM contents, then store your own unique ID somewhere on the
device.
This will of course fail for a fresh device right out of the box.
There are probably 10 other bad ideas I could suggest...
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