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Re:Special collection of freeware tools for system administr... by mbubb on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @08:46AM (#2682847)
He forgot one that I use all the time: http://xkcd.com/221/
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Re:Special collection of freeware tools for system administr... by TheNewAndy on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @09:56AM (#2683094)
He had something in the same spirit: (though this one outputs a decidedly non-random number)

http://www.brendangregg.com/Specials/notrandom.c

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Re:Special collection of freeware tools for system administr... by delinka on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @12:24PM (#2683825)
The same spirit in the way that a closed door is similar to an open door. XKCD generated a random number to return, notrandom.c did not.

I fail to see similar spirits here.

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Re:Special collection of freeware tools for system administr... by yalue on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @12:46PM (#2683926)
You can easily write your own:

  #!/usr/bin/perl
  #The following was generated by a fair dice roll,
  #guaranteed to be random
  exit 4
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