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That's at least three sorts of nonsense:

https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbi...

https://www.random.org/

http://random.hd.org/

The OS has no magic either, or are you saying that it's random seeds all the way down?

Rgds

Damon

Yes. There is for thing dedicated random number hardware and there is hardware that can produce partially random data, such as network cards and radios, but the latter are only really good when combined with eachother and with a random number tracker, which is something the OS can do.

That's at least three sorts of nonsense:

https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbi...

https://www.random.org/

http://random.hd.org/

The OS has no magic either, or are you saying that it's random seeds all the way down?

Rgds

Damon

Completing one's toilet was originally getting dressed and washed and a toilet (or lavatory) was the place to do that, etc, but then the word got hijacked, in a long and glorious tradition of being unable to call a spade a shovelling device...

http://aj.hd.org/TFTC/E.html#euphemisms

Rgds

Damon

Great plan! Make sure to extract similar vengeance on:

Children with fireworks
Children who intentionally light fires
Grills
Campfires
Throwing out a lit cigarette
Yard/Trash burning


etc, etc, etc, you know, the things that typically cause these fires. This was just an accident, it happens. I think what we need to do is take a similar stance that we have on any activity that could lead to a fire, educate people on the dangers and how to handle it. Remember Smokey the Bear? Meet Slashdot's most wanted. I dare you to stare into the face of evil!

In Brussels I saw some parking spaces with charging while at FOSDEM, here:

http://gallery.hd.org/_c/travel/_more2012/_more02/car-electric-ZERO-ZENCAR-pair-charging-from-pillars-on-snowy-streets-of-Brussels-Belgium-1-DHD.jpg.html

Now this may be currently limited to one car rental scheme, but that's more-or-less a matter of software to fix, especially once a standard plug is widespread.

Rgds

Damon

http://gallery.hd.org/ ?

No, wait...

I bought a (24-thread) T1 because it was *cheap* for the specs, and because I can use all that parallelism for my Web server ( http://mirror-uk-rb1.gallery.hd.org/ ) and stuff it is doing on the backend, and it is *lovely*.

I also use various flavours of Intel chips including Core Duos in the MacBook that I'm typing on now and in my new low-power Linux laptop that's replaced 5 old Solaris servers ( http://www.earth.org.uk/low-power-laptop.html ), but I have to say again that the T1/Niagara is lovely to write threaded code for (eg in Java).

Rgds

Damon

There are various 'entropy pool' based servers out there such as mine at http://random.hd.org/ and also see for example http://www.random.org/

The existing public servers gather noise from various sources such as audio or radio or radioactive decay.

Rgds

Damon

Atmospheric noise
Lava lamps
Radioactive decay
Entropy

b4 5b 1e 84 f0 1a 49 19 6d 9b ce d2 e2 2a 20 4c
62 5d a4 5d d8 8d 2a 1a cb 65 9d 46 80 cd 4d 69
dc 3a a4 5b 26 86 7d 40 e9 ef 86 d8 0a 81 1c 16
03 a8 a6 0a 18 48 44 22 f3 bd ae b7 61 26 d3 ae
ff 93 ef af 83 f5 1f 91 08 18 3d 09 ad 0a bd 0e
24 80 5d d6 b5 55 b8 83 1f ba 7a 49 d8 39 2f bb
58 23 07 2b b1 4b a9 b1 75 6f dd 9a 13 56 db 14
78 b3 5b 95 1a ce b3 18 5a 75 cc b8 69 30 c8 31
ec 2d 9b c7 89 f9 fe 73 16 17 d4 0d 14 e9 58 fb
4f 43 78 14 4d e5 8d 78 4f 6f 74 8b 08 81 3a ef
b6 10 e4 a9 fb bd 52 c7 be 48 f3 92 df d1 1c 5c
fb 3b b3 0c 5e 07 96 d4 3e 65 b6 4e 5b 79 c6 ff
43 46 32 f3 89 6a f7 52 31 37 7e 3c d0 e6 40 9d
06 aa 4a 62 9f c2 ac 03 6a 10 d3 1e 78 74 76 64
64 7f 72 10 9c ee e2 e1 3d 09 c4 5c 25 e3 62 50
65 92 d5 35 b3 c7 3d db 6b af 70 11 c6 55 f1 3c

See http://random.hd.org/getBits.jsp?numBytes=16&type= hex for all my other numbers...

Keep your hands OFF *my* numbers!

Rgds

Damon

The Folsom Street Fetish Fair? http://gallery.hd.org/_c/places-and-sights/US-CA-S an-Francisco-Folsom-Street-fetish-fair-dancer-in-s uspended-cage-tweaked-mono-1-DHD.jpg.html Yes, definitely an eye-opener! But actually I saw nothing 'lewd' on the street at all. Rgds Damon

Plenty more of these at http://random.hd.org/getBits.jsp?numBytes=16&type= hex

With stuff like this:

http://gallery.hd.org/_cat/doHTMLSearch.jsp?q=micr o+hydro

Rgds

Damon

PS. Also good for welding, cooling beer, and hair tongs...

For example, I just put up this Java Web Start http://master.gallery.hd.org/_AI/remote.jsp project to enable people to help along my little AI project. It is entirely in the sandbox, and is careful with bandwidth and memory and CPU usage. But you don't have to trust me, you only have to trust Sun.

Rgds

Damon

Hmmm, spinning meat...

*drools*

> India? Third world? Where have you been living?

Here

Rgds

Damon

Everyone knows that UNIX is really just a is really just a Fire Extinguisher, and certainly not a web page or much less a legal trademakr. Extinguisher, and certainly not a web page or much less a legal trademakr.

The logo is pretty good. I've looked at the loser logos and what strikes me is that none of them refer to water. Some nice ideas for logo's are shown in these pictures:

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