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Just got our copy of Pandemic in the mail, couldn’t pass up on this great deal. The wife has been really excited about this one, opened up the box and poured a beer. We just glanced over the rule book until the wife’s finals are over, but excited to see if we can save humanity, or die horribly! If you’ve not seen game play of Pandemic , check out this great video by TableTop :

Wife found a nice looking box set of Samuel Adams Barrel Collection.

Well that title is odd, right? What I’m wanting to do here is demonstrate one way to generate random numbers using a seed . The requirement here is we need to test a number at any given time, this will be useful if we intend to use the process as a token of sort, think RSA SecureID . Anyways I wanted to make a implementation that used Python and didn’t cost me hundreds of dollars.

A new unique beer we found at the local convenience store.

I know this has been written a few time online, but the last time I needed to read up on it, it took a little long to find the answer. What I wanted to do was to chroot in to a new root, then exit that chroot via python . Below we have my current working directory that is /root , take a look at what we have in the directory: