From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/79208 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Rolf Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: random seed Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:55:22 +0100 Message-ID: <50A3E91A.5010009@gmx.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352919343 28763 80.91.229.3 (14 Nov 2012 18:55:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:55:43 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Nov 14 19:55:54 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TYi7n-0002QA-C1 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:55:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE5E210281; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:55:37 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id sbiHajOTFHhO; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:55:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51C2610267; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:55:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D06210267 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:55:33 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id u52TAJs8+YDP for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:55:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter3-utr.mf.surf.net (filter3-utr.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.154]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEAFC10235 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:55:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.23]) by filter3-utr.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with SMTP id qAEItRbc018902 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:55:28 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 14 Nov 2012 18:55:27 -0000 Original-Received: from ip-88-153-133-252.unitymediagroup.de (EHLO [192.168.178.3]) [88.153.133.252] by mail.gmx.net (mp027) with SMTP; 14 Nov 2012 19:55:27 +0100 X-Authenticated: #24293357 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX189xrM8yr49Xvv2+i2SyfpAmLnzDaM3bfrbenqoZ1 +jinZ4d95m2z5W User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.5 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.165.64.23; country=DE; latitude=51.0000; longitude=9.0000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=51.0000,9.0000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 08InuTr6I - a29e7489af35 - 20121114 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.154 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:79208 Archived-At: Hi, in one of my documents I use a specific random seed to create a fixed random based graphic (size, color, position). This works fine under Windows (where I 'found' the seed value), but I get a complete different result on my Debian system. Is there a way to get identical results on different OS? Or is the random number generator OS specific? Just wondering... Peter ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________