From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31224 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Norman Walsh Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: real programmers(TM) Date: 26 May 2000 07:10:33 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87vh01lg7q.fsf@nwalsh.com> References: Reply-To: Norman Walsh NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167664 12846 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:34:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:34:24 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21B14D051E for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 07:11:08 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAB05323; Fri, 26 May 2000 06:10:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 26 May 2000 06:10:23 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA24128 for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 06:10:12 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from nexus.berkshire.net (nexus.berkshire.net [206.72.196.10]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A595D051E for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 07:10:33 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from hermes (nwalshpc.nwalsh.com [140.186.114.234]) by nexus.berkshire.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id HAA23321 for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 07:10:32 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from ndw by hermes with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 12vI0g-0000CB-00 for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 07:10:34 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-URL: http://nwalsh.com/ X-Millennium: T-minus 31 weeks, 2 days, 17 hours, 50 minutes, 2 seconds X-nwalsh-folder: emacs.ding In-Reply-To: Toby Speight's message of "26 May 2000 11:01:41 +0100" Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.6 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31224 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31224 / Toby Speight 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 -- Norman Walsh | Internet connection, $19.95 a month. http://nwalsh.com/ | Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. | Telephone line, $24.95 a month. | Software, free. USENET transmission, | hundreds if not thousands of dollars. | Thinking before posting, priceless. | Somethings in life you can't buy. For | everything else, there's | MasterCard.--Graham Reed, in the Scary | Devil Monastery