From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 13:02:39 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1240516A41F for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:02:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74B2943D5C for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:02:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 6959 invoked from network); 31 Aug 2005 23:02:37 +1000 Received: from 203-217-79-78.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO ?192.168.13.3?) (203.217.79.78) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 31 Aug 2005 23:02:37 +1000 Message-ID: <4315AA65.80905@meijome.net> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:02:29 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050831092718.GA887@twelvegates.homeip.net> <4315A889.4060400@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <4315A889.4060400@meijome.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: entropy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:02:39 -0000 Norberto Meijome wrote: > Hanspeter Roth wrote: > >> Hello, > > > hello, grab a beverage and start reading ;) > >> >> what is entropy for? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_entropy being far more accurate to this thread. Beto, with half a brain correcting the other half...