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Minecraft Tools: SnapShotter 1.0

Although I did post this on the Minecraft Forums, I think I should post this here for anyone who wants to see how simple this script is. What it does is to take a copy of the Minecraft map and copy it to a folder for people to grab (also good for backups when someone [...]

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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 [...]

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