Generating random numbers effectively

Question

How do you generate random numbers effectively?
Every time a random number program boots up, it starts spitting same numbers as before. (I guess because of quasi nature of

Answer 1

Producing the same sequence over and over is often a feature, not a bug, as long as you control it. Producing a repeatable sequence makes debugging easier. If you are serious about wanting a non-reproducible random sequence, you could look for a secure random number generator with this as a design aim. You've tagged your question C#, but since Java has http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/security/SecureRandom.html and the windows API has http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptGenRandom you may able to find an equivalent in C#.