Free random civ software for linux

Mr. Random project is a utility useful for filling a portable MP3 audio player with music randomly selected from a larger collection situated on a computer hard drive.

This is a good idea if you cant make up your mind what you want to hear, you prefer to be surprised by a selection of music you may not have heard in a while, or want to hear familiar music juxtaposed in novel combinations.

rndCiv (Random Civ) are randomized rulesets for Freeciv.

If you play freeciv a lot, youll probably start to find that the games start to become the same, they blur into each other and after a while even though you love the game it starts to become boring and too easy.

Well i did, each game becomes a rush to The Republic, Gunpowder and Steam Engine. And one reason for that is that the techtree becomes totally sussed out. But techtrees are arbitrary anyway, and in another slightly different world they would be different. Sure you can download mod packs, but the problem reappears, after a while you learn their techtree, and youre back to square one.

rndCiv, is a solution to this problem. What rndCiv does is blend different genres together to produce unique (but still playable) techtrees. Its not random like Monarchy and Radio lead to Genetic Engineering, that would be silly. Its random like, Sailing could come from Boating, Map Making, Seafaring, Astronomy, or Craftsmanship. So pick two and get on with it.

Because the Techs, Units, Buildings and Governments are bundled into different generas, then you can get rndCiv to build a techtree (with related Units, Buildings & Governments) for whatever set of generas youd like to play with. Its a Meta-Modpack.

This code is beta, it works, it occasionally crashes the server (so save often), it also crashes the client (when you look up the help system for some units - weird), and its rules need to be fine-tuned.

Quick Start:

For a quick intro, try this command

./rndCiv.pl random4

then read the rulesets in the ./ouput dir

what i do, is symlink the output dir to freeciv/data/rnd and set rulesetdir to rnd

The ruleset.summary file gives a qick overview of the ruleset.

The techtree.dot file can be fed into the dot graph generator....

dot -Tps -o techtree.ps techtree.dot
gv techtree.ps

Then start civ..

./civ --tiles=rnd

and when in the civ server control mode, set the rule dir

/rulesetdir rnd

add other game options to suit, and start

Quantum::Random is an optical quantum random number generator front-end.

SYNOPSIS

package Your::Package;

use strict;
use Quantum::Random qw(quantum_random);

my @numbers = quantum_random(10, 5);

die "Error: $Quantum::Random::Errorn" unless @numbers;

print join , , @numbers;

Quantum::Random is a front-end to the optical quantum random number generator at the Computer Science department of the University of Geneva. For details on the generator, visit: http://www.randomnumbers.info/
The site states, "The Computer Science department of the University of Geneva has developed a server/client application for scientist from around the world to be able to download random numbers directly in the C, C+, Fortran or Java codes [sic] used for their simulations."

As they have no stated plans for developing a perl interface, I have taken it upon myself to author one.

USAGE

The subroutine quantum_random will be exported into your namespace as shown above. It accepts two mandatory arguments. The first argument represents the number of random numbers you want (i.e., the quantity) and must be between 1 and 1000. The second argument represents the maximum number that you want any given random number to be (i.e., the maximum) and must be between 1 and 10000. On success, you will be returned a list of random numbers. On failure, you will be returned an empty set and can get details on the failure by checking the contents of $Quantum::Random::Error.

Random Theme Switcher provides an extension which switches skin at random time interval.

If you have no theme installed, this extension is of no use.

ruby-randbg is a small script to change your computers background wallpaper to a random image in a specified directory.

ruby-randbg project uses a simple cache file to make sure that wallpapers do not repeat. Each time a wallpaper is used, it is added to the cache. Once the cache fills up, it resets, and the wallpapers start over.

TODO:

Create the .randbg file automagically.
Add multiple directory support if requested.

Math::Random::MT::Auto is a Perl module for auto-seeded Mersenne Twister PRNGs.

SYNOPSIS

use strict;
use warnings;
use Math::Random::MT::Auto qw(rand irand shuffle gaussian),
/dev/urandom => 256,
random_org;

# Functional interface
my $die_roll = 1 + int(rand(6));

my $coin_flip = (irand() & 1) ? heads : tails;

my $deck = shuffle(1 .. 52);

my $rand_IQ = gaussian(15, 100);

# OO interface
my $prng = Math::Random::MT::Auto->new(SOURCE => /dev/random);

my $angle = $prng->rand(360);

my $decay_interval = $prng->exponential(12.4);

The Mersenne Twister is a fast pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) that is capable of providing large volumes (> 10^6004) of "high quality" pseudorandom data to applications that may exhaust available "truly" random data sources or system-provided PRNGs such as rand.
This module provides PRNGs that are based on the Mersenne Twister.

There is a functional interface to a single, standalone PRNG, and an OO interface (based on the inside-out object model as implemented by the Object::InsideOut module) for generating multiple PRNG objects. The PRNGs are self-seeding, automatically acquiring a (19968-bit) random seed from user-selectable sources.

Adcd project is a cd player for Linux with a ncurses (text mode) interface.
Adcd can play all the tracks from a disc in order (linear mode), or in the order specified by the user (playlist mode), and includes all the functions expected in a stand-alone cd player, including random play and loop mode.
The functions adcd can perform are:
Open/Close
Play/Pause/Stop
Goto track
Goto Prev/next track
Seek forward/backward
Loop and Loop1 modes
Playlist edition
Random playlist
Set/Show volume
Show elapsed/remaining time of track/disc
Enhancements:
- The license has been updated to GPL version 3 or later.