Re: [Scottish] allowing a large newborn sea-mammal to collide witha rocky plane toid object devoid of atmosphere somewhere in another galaxy

2003-03-21 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
A white noise source connected to the sound card input would be a good truly random number generator. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish Now all we need to be able to do is

Re: [Scottish] allowing a large newborn sea-mammal to collide witha rocky plane toid object devoid of atmosphere somewhere in another galaxy

2003-03-21 Thread Thomas Figg
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Mike Quin wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 09:21:37AM + or thereabouts, Gordon JC Pearce wrote: A white noise source connected to the sound card input would be a good truly random number generator. Or take the approach that SGI came up with - point a camera at a

Re: [Scottish] allowing a large newborn sea-mammal to collide witha rocky plane toid object devoid of atmosphere somewhere in another galaxy

2003-03-20 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 11:56, Huard, Elise - D CW Consultant wrote: wee question (to replace the pin-drop jokes :-) ) : program in C under Unix. Is there any way to get the time in tenth or hundredth of seconds ? Or to phrase it differently : i need a random number generator that won't give

Re: [Scottish] allowing a large newborn sea-mammal to collide witha rocky plane toid object devoid of atmosphere somewhere in another galaxy

2003-03-20 Thread Colin McKinnon
Gordon JC Pearce wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 11:56, Huard, Elise - D CW Consultant wrote: wee question (to replace the pin-drop jokes :-) ) : program in C under Unix. Is there any way to get the time in tenth or hundredth of seconds ? Or to phrase it differently : i need a random number