1995-09-20 - Re: “random” number seeds vs. Netscape
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From: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
To: karlton@netscape.com (Phil Karlton)
Message Hash: 905b6d6a6dbcb86dd6d30a402bb6d89d4ff4eba9e0068b60a6a46a2f0acfabae
Message ID: <199509202120.OAA28581@infinity.c2.org>
Reply To: <43psn2$6ug@tera.mcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1995-09-20 21:26:10 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 20 Sep 95 14:26:10 PDT
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From: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 95 14:26:10 PDT
To: karlton@netscape.com (Phil Karlton)
Subject: Re: "random" number seeds vs. Netscape
In-Reply-To: <43psn2$6ug@tera.mcom.com>
Message-ID: <199509202120.OAA28581@infinity.c2.org>
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> weeks ago. The time spent on patching the current release will not
> all go to waste, but it has cut down on my limited opportunities to
> sleep.
>
> For those that curious: being responsible for helping to fix a bug that
> is getting front page coverage in major newspapers is not nearly as
> much fun as it sounds.
>
This looks really good. I only wish your PR people wouldn't
spout the garbage that they do.
In terms of your amounts of sleep-- If netscape had waited a
month before releasing the patch it would not have been doing any
worse than most OS vendors. Netscape is to be congratulated on the
quick response.
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- 1995-09-20 (Wed, 20 Sep 95 13:15:25 PDT) - “random” number seeds vs. Netscape - karlton@netscape.com (Phil Karlton)
- 1995-09-20 (Wed, 20 Sep 95 14:02:02 PDT) - Re: “random” number seeds vs. Netscape - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
- 1995-09-20 (Wed, 20 Sep 95 15:28:22 PDT) - Re: “random” number seeds vs. Netscape - Phil Karlton <karlton@netscape.com>
- 1995-09-20 (Wed, 20 Sep 95 15:41:55 PDT) - Re: “random” number seeds vs. Netscape - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
- 1995-09-22 (Fri, 22 Sep 95 03:43:58 PDT) - RNG Resource FAQ (was Re: “random” number seeds vs. Netscape) - futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)
- 1995-09-20 (Wed, 20 Sep 95 15:28:22 PDT) - Re: “random” number seeds vs. Netscape - Phil Karlton <karlton@netscape.com>
- 1995-09-20 (Wed, 20 Sep 95 14:26:10 PDT) - Re: “random” number seeds vs. Netscape - sameer <sameer@c2.org>
- 1995-09-21 (Thu, 21 Sep 95 16:02:11 PDT) - Re: “random” number seeds vs. Netscape - Eric Blossom <eb@comsec.com>
- 1995-09-20 (Wed, 20 Sep 95 14:02:02 PDT) - Re: “random” number seeds vs. Netscape - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>