Monthly Archives: February 2010
Riddle of the Month… February 2010 (Infinity)
If I get one of these a month, then it will be monthly. If I don’t then it will be just a one off. But here is your Riddle of the Month… Infinity If Infinity = Infinity and Infinity+1 = Infinity and 0-Infinity = -Infinity What is Infinity-Infinity? Answers in the comments please.
Pulling random data from /dev/random
This is a shell script that will pull 5 random characters from /dev/random and print them out to standard output. It was created as the input component for a random password generator that I am currently writing. Note on using /dev/random: as usual, using this source for entropy will give you pure randomness, though due [...]
tchs.eu – The Little URL Shrinker that could
Right, well this will only be of interest to a few you, and even a smaller set of those will know what this is all about. Some time ago I created tchs.eu, a small URL shortener just like any other. Think of it as a Techious branded tinyurl.com. And for a while things were good. [...]

