<div dir="auto">It's a surprise ;-) Will share it hopefully soon.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Best,<br><br>Ico<br><br>-- <br>Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.<br>Director, Creativity + Innovation<br>Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology<br><br>Virginia Tech<br>Creative Technologies in Music<br>School of Performing Arts – 0141<br>Blacksburg, VA 24061<br>(540) 231-6139<br><a href="mailto:ico@vt.edu">ico@vt.edu</a><br><br><a href="http://www.icat.vt.edu">www.icat.vt.edu</a><br><a href="http://www.performingarts.vt.edu">www.performingarts.vt.edu</a><br><a href="http://l2ork.icat.vt.edu">l2ork.icat.vt.edu</a><br><a href="http://ico.bukvic.net">ico.bukvic.net</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 24, 2020, 15:31 Jonathan Wilkes <<a href="mailto:jon.w.wilkes@gmail.com">jon.w.wilkes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Btw-- what are you building?<br>
<br>
-Jonathan<br>
<br>
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 2:58 PM Jonathan Wilkes <<a href="mailto:jon.w.wilkes@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">jon.w.wilkes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 2:22 PM Ivica Ico Bukvic <<a href="mailto:ico@vt.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ico@vt.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > Any ideas on how to generate a unique ID to each client without manual<br>
> > user interaction and in a way that is platform-agnostic? I imagine one<br>
> > could leverage client's network MAC address or unique computer<br>
> > identifier but am unaware of how this can be retrieved in an OS-agnostic<br>
> > way inside pd-l2ork/purr-data.<br>
><br>
> If you have a centralized server then the server can go the same route as<br>
> the implementation of dollarsign zero and increment a global var for each<br>
> new client.<br>
><br>
> If the client needs to generate the id themselves then you can have each<br>
> client use a random number generator to assign themselves an ID.<br>
><br>
> There's also an ID buried in each installation of Chromium that is unique<br>
> for that installation. (One of many good reasons I start Purr Data with a<br>
> flag to Chromium that ties it to a chair and duck tapes its mouth shut. :)<br>
><br>
> -Jonathan<br>
><br>
> ><br>
> > Best,<br>
> ><br>
> > Ico<br>
> ><br>
> > --<br>
> > Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.<br>
> > Director, Creativity + Innovation<br>
> > Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology<br>
> ><br>
> > Virginia Tech<br>
> > Creative Technologies in Music<br>
> > School of Performing Arts – 0141<br>
> > Blacksburg, VA 24061<br>
> > (540) 231-6139<br>
> > <a href="mailto:ico@vt.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ico@vt.edu</a><br>
> ><br>
> > <a href="http://www.icat.vt.edu" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">www.icat.vt.edu</a><br>
> > <a href="http://www.performingarts.vt.edu" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">www.performingarts.vt.edu</a><br>
> > <a href="http://l2ork.icat.vt.edu" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">l2ork.icat.vt.edu</a><br>
> > <a href="http://ico.bukvic.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">ico.bukvic.net</a><br>
> ><br>
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