Re: [NTLK] [OT] old OT subject...random numbers

From: Lallang_at_aol.com
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 02:45:22 EDT


In a message dated 07/13/2002 01:30:28, tech_ed_at_yahoo.com writes:

>Sorry for the OT here, but SGI finally returned my
>email I sent them many months ago.
>The discussion was the randomness of random
>numbers...I don't want to start yet another OT thread,
>but at the time, I was looking for the SGI LavaRand
>Random number generator...it was taken down.
>But a comunique from Tony Morales at SGI gave me this
>link:
>http://www.lavarand.org/
>

Uh...can you explain what they're trying to do here? The website isn't too
clear. Is it a spoof site or are they really trying to use lavalamps to
generate a truly random number? Sorry if my sense of humor is down--I've
seen weirder things online lately...

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