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Hello all, Has anyone done one of these? I''ve done similar things in java and php, by having easy access to SQL statements. I am new to Ruby/Rails( I''ve been at it for 10 days ) and thus far find it extremely confusing. I''ve got a bit more of a handle on it from the Agile book that someone loaned me, but I still find it hard to understand. Anyway, I''ve got

...rol_ What you are alluding to is the conditional probability of the (in your examples, last) character dependent on the preceeding ones. While that is an interesting measurement, it's not the one under discussion, and has units of "bits per character" (or letter). http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/dissertation/entropy1.html "Refining the Estimated Entropy of English by Shannon Game Simulation" A reasonable primer on Shannon's estimates of entropy. http://www.stanford.edu/~vjsriniv/project/entropy_of_english_9.htm Covers both of Shannon's methods for estimating H for Eng...

Hi, I just installed 2009.06 and found that compression isn''t enabled by default when filesystems are created. Does is make sense to have an RFE open for this? (I''ll open one tonight if need be.) We keep telling people to turn on compression. Are there any situations where turning on compression doesn''t make sense, like rpool/swap? what about rpool/dump? Thanks, ~~sa