note karlgoethebier <p>...what about using this?</p> <code> #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; open(RANDOM, "<", "/dev/random") || die $!; read(RANDOM, $_, 4); close RANDOM; my $seed = unpack("L", $_); print $seed . qq(\n); srand($seed); # do stuff... </code> <p>Regards, Karl</p> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-1001958"> <p>«The Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostrophe»</p> </div></div> 1005043 1005048