My Veeam Backup Server refuses to push a client to physical PC because of a "duplicate BIOS UUID" in the client table. "Inconceivable!," says I; "A UUID is Universally Unique!" Apparently not. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was flashing the bios on a Lenovo Thinkpad X131e with Windows 10 yesterday, and when I restarted the computer, I got a message the machine UUID is invalid code 2201. How can I fix this? Would ...