Free random software for linux

Mod Random provides three services. The first service is redirection: you feed it URLs and it will redirect to random URLs that you have loaded.

The second is providing environment variables that can be used for implementing ad banner systems. The third is displaying entire pages of random HTML, using its own custom handlers in combination with with random ads and quotes that you feed into the system.

It can also supply text via an environment variable called RANDOM_QUOTE, RANDOM_AD, or by environment variables that you specify. This can be used to implement fortune cookies, message of the day, entire random pages, or banner ads.

Random Music plays random MP3 tracks from your music collection. It maintains a flat database of tracks, detailed genres, and weights, and generates a weighted random playlist from the user-selected genres.
The ID3 and ID3v2 fields (title/artist/album), detailed genre, and weight (0-9) for the currently-playing track can be edited, and tracks can be removed from the playlist.
For example, a user can select only tracks with a minimum weight of 5 from the subgenres "Pop - 1970s" and "R&B - 1970s", and the playlist will adjust accordingly.
Enhancements:
- This release adds features to the playlist editor.
- Playlist entries now include the album name, and selected tracks can be moved up or down.

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.

XMMS Real Random plugin overrides the builtin shuffle mode and plays the titles in a more random way.

The shuffle mode of xmms is not as I expected it. So I created this plugin.

For using this plugin, the plugin has to be loaded by xmms and the shuffle mode of xmms has to be "on".

The plugin becomes active if you are playing a song for a while. If this song ended it jumps to a random position within the playlist.

Random Phase Music Generator is a small program that generates random phase music. Random music has been around for a long time (from Mozarts musical dice game to John Cages chance music), but phase music was invented rather recently by Steve Reich.

It would be interesting to combine those ideas, so I have written this program as a tool for further experiments. Type xmkmf and then make to compile the program. LessTif users, replace xmkmf with mxmkmf.

If your xmkmf is broken, you have to install manually. Edit Makefile.man (examples for Solaris, AIX and LessTif are provided). Make sure INCS and LIBS are linking to the correct directories, then type make -f Makefile.man to compile.

Run phase from an X terminal. Some users might need to point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the Motif libraries. After starting up the program, you can use the File menu to load or save the panel settings, and the Music menu to play the generated phase music or save it to a MIDI file.

Yet Another Random Perl Portal (YARPP) is a simple Web portal environment. Yet Another Random Perl Portal is specifically designed to provide a portal that can be used to remotely manage small scale firewall products, such as net Juniper (Netscreen) 5 series devices.
As such, it includes configuration modification utilities, as well as traffic reporting components. It was designed to allow people to manage and monitor these firewalls while ensuring that all of the filter modification functions that are available via the devices native interface are removed from the user.
Enhancements:
- The module send_ssh_command.pl allowed execution of arbitrary commands on the Web server through manipulation of its input variables.

gjrand is a programmers library for pseudo-random numbers. gjrand library includes random number generator testing code and is intended for simulation, games, and "Monte-Carlo" algorithms.
It produces pseudo-random numbers of the types: uniform integers, uniform reals, normally distributed reals, binomial, Poisson, integer permutation, chi-squared distribution, and spherical distribution.
The library provides API calls for the following:
- seed the generator
- save and restore state
- generate integer uniform random numbers
- generate integer special: coins, biased coins, dice, shuffle, poisson
- generate floating point uniform numbers
- generate floating point special:
normal distribution
chi-square distribution
in a n-dimensional sphere
on the surface of a n-dimensional sphere
- compatibility functions for rand() family and rand48() family.
- Except for most of the compatibility functions, gjrand should be thread-safe. It is written in C, but appears to also be legal C++.
- There are also test programs that test all of the above and could also be used or adapted to test other alleged random sources. Some alternative (mostly bad) pseudo random generators are also provided so you can amuse yourself by watching tests fail.
Enhancements:
- There is now a function for "Student" T distribution.
- The algorithm for normal distribution and several related ones has changed yet again.
- There is one new test program for the T distribution, an additional test program for uniform bits, and minor tweaks to several other tests.