in reply to CPU ID
I put the emphasis on other unic HW ID here:
Under Linux (sorry, I don't have much knowledge with other OSes), you could do a quick&dirty trick by parsing the output of /sbin/ifconfig
wlan0 Protokoll:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 00:20:E0:8D:70:7DThis will give you the MAC adresses of any attached networking devices. Pretty unique (most of the time). But as you can see above: Be carefull of localized output just match the last (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx) sequence - if any - of the lines not starting with a whitespace. THe regexp is left as an exercise. ;-)
Bye
PetaMem
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