Tag Archives: Random
A Breakdown of Comment Spam
One thing that is a given these days with blogs (especially ones with a known format, like WordPress) is that you will get spam, a lot of spam. Thankfully plugins like the brilliant Akismet manages to block 99% or more of the spam, though it still stays in the comment moderation queue for reading and [...]
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 [...]
Is that Tiberium in this product?
I came across this originally walking around Town, and thought “WTF is that Tiberium!?” and thought that maybe people here would be interested to see what looks like Tiberium in the real world. If you don’t know what Tiberium is, then I’m guessing you haven’t played any of the main Command & Conquer games. Note: [...]