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I love this one, about DirectX not trusting drivers responses to capabilities requests: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040211-00/?p=40663 https:

• Pxtl 11y ago
  I thought guids weren't based on MAC addresses anymore.
  • CJefferson 11y ago
    They aren't, but they were when this original "bug" in drivers was fixed.
    • billpg 11y ago
      So they wasted a perfectly good network card for nothing.
      • periodontal 11y ago
        They destroyed it ostensibly so that they had a stronger guarantee that that GUID would never be generated again. That said, I suspect they understood it wasn't strictly necessary and were looking for an excuse to have some fun. Note that even in the MAC-based generation algorithm, it is difficult (but not impossible) to accidentally generate the same one again even on the same hardware since there is a high resolution time component as well. Random UUIDs have a different encoded version number so it's actually impossible for a modern one to collide with the one they generated.