Sep 10, 2021
Random number generator challenge: 202-Forgotten history
Where I remix a bunch of drawing challenges, most from @all-that-you-can-draw and I pick randomly something to draw.
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Random number generator challenge: 202-Forgotten history
Where I remix a bunch of drawing challenges, most from @all-that-you-can-draw and I pick randomly something to draw.
Tambola/Bingo-90/Housie houseful game number Generator or tambola number caller or Bingo-90 number generator. Housie/Housefull Game Random n
How-to: Why is my /dev/random so slow when using dd? #development #dev #solution
How-to: Why is my /dev/random so slow when using dd? #development #dev #solution
Why is my /dev/random so slow when using dd?
I am trying to semi-securely erase a bunch of hard drives. The following is working at 20-50Mb/s
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
But
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda
seems not to work. Also when I type
dd if=/dev/random of=stdout
It only gives me a few bytes regardless of what I pass it for bs= and count=
Am I using /dev/random wrong? What other info…
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Solution: How do I get /dev/random to work on an Ubuntu virtual machine? #dev #fix #development
Solution: How do I get /dev/random to work on an Ubuntu virtual machine? #dev #fix #development
How do I get /dev/random to work on an Ubuntu virtual machine?
Apparently, /dev/random is based on hardware interrupts or similar unpredictable aspects of physical hardware. Since virtual machines don’t have physical hardware, running cat /dev/random within a virtual machine produces nothing. I’m using Ubuntu Server 11.04 as the host and guest, with libvirt/KVM.
I need to set-up Kerberos inside…
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Fixed: How are pseudorandom and truly random numbers different and why does it matter? #solution #development #answer
Fixed: How are pseudorandom and truly random numbers different and why does it matter? #solution #development #answer
How are pseudorandom and truly random numbers different and why does it matter?
I’ve never quite got this. Just say you write a small program in any language at all which rolls some dice (just using dice as an example). After 600,000 rolls, each number would have been rolled around 100,000 times, which is what I’d expect.
Why are there websites dedicated to ‘true randomness’? Surely, given the…
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