Hi John, > Instead of trying to code everything myself using lm_sensors (which I was > informed wasn't possible, thank you), I decided to use FreeBSD and the > code from the previous semester's project. Now I can simply call a method > brand() and retrieve a supposedly random number based on the sensors. My > job for this semester is to test it for randomness and perhaps make a > webpage for it. Chi-squared analysis yields that 5/10 groups of readings > are random. Not bad for a start. I don't know if this is of any interest to you, but some computers have hardware random number generators, and Linux (and I suspect BSD) has drivers to handle a couple of these. Andrew E. Schulman set up a nice (although slightly outdated) page about these: http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/hardware-RNG/ But it might not be of any help for your specific project. Up to you. > lm_sensors is quite extensive and easy to use, kudos to that. Thanks :') -- Jean Delvare
