On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 03:47 -0800, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > it's just like a bunch of Physicists to go to all the trouble to > build a randomness source out of a Geiger counter. A noisy resistor > or diode would have done the job just as well. One of my very old computers had a white noise generator for use by the random number function. One day I decided to test it by repeatedly polling it and using alternate polls as X and Y co-ordinates to place a mark on a graph. The images was, predominately, two fat parallel diagonal bars. The effect was rapidly noticeable, and didn't even out over a prolonged time. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
