From: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
Subject: Re: real programmers(TM)
Date: 26 May 2000 07:10:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vh01lg7q.fsf@nwalsh.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Toby Speight's message of "26 May 2000 11:01:41 +0100"
/ Toby Speight <streapadair@gmx.net> was heard to say:
| cat /dev/random >a.out
|
| If you've seeded the RNG correctly, nothing more to do.
I fear that's an incomplete solution. There are only a finite
number of seed values.
Be seeing you,
norm
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2000-05-26 3:01 ` Aaron M. Ucko
2000-05-26 10:01 ` Toby Speight
2000-05-26 11:10 ` Norman Walsh [this message]
2000-05-26 11:28 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-05-26 12:09 ` Jaap-Henk Hoepman
2000-05-26 12:54 ` William M. Perry
2000-05-26 19:26 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-05-11 10:24 The <word>.<word>.<word> rule Per Abrahamsen
2000-05-12 11:50 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2000-05-16 7:29 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2000-05-16 11:58 ` François Pinard
2000-05-17 8:28 ` Python Emacs (was Re: The <word>.<word>.<word> rule) Jaap-Henk Hoepman
2000-05-17 20:06 ` François Pinard
2000-05-17 20:27 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-05-17 20:37 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-05-18 20:48 ` Jaap-Henk Hoepman
2000-05-19 14:42 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-05-20 20:35 ` Jaap-Henk Hoepman
2000-05-20 22:43 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-05-23 0:12 ` Hal Snyder
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2000-05-23 1:16 ` Eric S. Johansson
2000-05-23 1:29 ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-05-23 1:44 ` real programmers(TM) Brian May
2000-05-23 7:03 ` Hrvoje Niksic
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