The traditional way to make a random number is to apply a pseudo-random number generator [[PRNG]] to the time. More crypto-savvy PRNG's use mouse-clicks and keyboard timings, coupled with samplings of the real-time clock (in BCD mode) and storings of a seed value. /dev/random under Mandrake was imractically slow for my taste, though, probably because it was WAITing for those events or some fool thing. I know this, because it was faster under X-Windows. For my purposes, I wrote my own, and it was faster than /dev/random (or was it /dev/noise) in BASIC, FCOL. I broke the DVD for Mandrake on purpose.
"David Goodman" dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote in message news:480eb3150902201826m7e13d30dod700e3c8eec354c2@mail.gmail.com...
Isn't the traditional way to link to some outside number--parimutual handle, stock market figures, whatever.
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:18 PM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
2009/2/21 Kat Walsh kat@mindspillage.org:
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Judson Dunn cohesion@sleepyhead.org wrote:
For your comedy pleasure :)
chaos! :)
Ahh, but Black-Hat Man hasn't anticipated our response! We'd delete the article on grounds of notability!
That's a boring response -- I would just insert a template that can display either an odd or an even number of words dependent on something outside the article itself...
-Kat
Unless template code has a random function I can't see a way to do it. Even {{REVISIONID}} {{PAGESIZE:page name}}{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}{{NUMBEROFEDITS}}{{NUMBERINGROUP:groupname}}
wouldn't quite be ungameable.
-- geni
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