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RAND() not very random
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 7 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
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Thread ID:
01155607
Message ID:
01157775
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Hi Randall

>Hi again, Terry. Nice to hear from you again.
>
>>From my IT edumication I recall that there (were) very few foolproof
>>rand. gen's. Word on the street is not to trust RAND().
>
>
>As I stated in a previous posting, I'm hoping that the VFP folks
>at Microsoft decide to support the hardware generators that are
>on a lot of the newer boards. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't
>some of the newer processors also sporting around with hardware
>generators on chip?

Search me!

>
>Hmmmm. REALLY dumb idea. Get folks to start turning on their processor
>IDs. Then use the MAC address XORed with the processor ID, and then
>tag on a datetime timestamp. Microsoft and the NSA would surely love
>it if everyone turned on their processor IDs. NOTE! BIG GRIN; JUST
>JOKING; and this is a DUMB IDEA :^) :^).

What a pallaver :-)

Laters

Terry
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
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