But unless you know the order in which they distributed the cases, your chances are the same... 1 out of the number of suitcases. It doesn't matter if you pick 'case 1' or 'case 16', your chances are the same.

Western culture doesn't seem to take the matter too seriously, but Korean and Thai cultures do.

You are clearly a Sagittarius, with the Moon rising over the plain of Mars in retrograde.

I'm not sure about you, but I know plenty of Americans who seem to take astrology and numerology a little too seriously.

I'd love to go on the show Deal or no deal (The one with the women holding the suitcases), and select my suitcases in numerical order (1, 2, 3, etc)-- because my chances are EXACTLY THE SAME as someone who selects the cases according to their own numerological theory.

Many American gamblers also tend to believe in numerology a little too much. The dice, cards, etc. are random (Unless the house or a person cheats). Sure, some people play the odds, but many people believe in some sort of mystical numerical theory.

No no no, you have it all wrong. You didn't need to go through all that effort, and all that detail.

All I meant was that I wanted to monitor a Unix box using Sar.

That should have been easy, and I guess it's my fault for not being clear. But look at all this paperwork you generated... wow you guys sure did work hard didn't you. Sorry for the misunderstanding...

thOn one.

But I'll try to be more careful next time.

I'm sure there are some people in the computer security world who you admire. So ask yourself, what would these people do if they had discovered the exploits? What would Phil Zimmermann, or DJB do? Some of these people were unhappy with the current situation, and took their own road and created some good, secure software.

Also, maybe your code isn't as good as you claim. Or maybe it mostly uses known exploits. It's time for a reality check. You should try to find some peers, and discuss it with them to determine how dangerous your product really is.

Or, Johannes Buchner is the West Germanic language equivalent of "John Smith". There is more then one person with this name, although I suspect we're with the guy who posts his Public PGP key.

Why not?

Wikipedia already hosts plenty of articles on Star Wars, including many pages about characters and episodes.

Is there Wikipedia rule against writing these sorts of fluffy articles? If so, why are those rules applied against Star Trek episodes, but not against Star Wars? The reasoning and deletions seem arbitrary.

I find it ironic that contributions to technical articles about Linux, databases and system administration get deleted, but Wikipedia still has a 2000 word article about Chewbacca.

I agree that Wikipedia isn't a great place to host a list of your favorite comic book, and I'd rather that Wikipedia focus on 'important' topics.

Balderdash (pronounced /B*ryhed734as/)

Hello new user. Thanks for adding your contribution to Wikipedia, but you are not worthy. Here's a slap in your face. There is no point in re-adding your article, because I am watching you, my reputation is better then yours and I have much more free time on my hands then you do.

This new article doesn't meet Wikipedia's requirements for Notability. I've never heard of this topic, and I've heard of everything on the planet. Therefore, I am recommending this article for deletion, and then you'll have to redo it from scratch.

If you don't respond quickly, we'll delete the article. You DO check the deletion logs every day, don't you?

That Wikipedia article and the links referenced by that article doesn't really explain what the Awesomebar is, why it's significant and doesn't really answer longbot's question.

Here's what Wikipedia says, and it's not really useful. Also, the links referenced by footnotes 29 & 30 don't mention the word "Awesome". Footnote 30, section "Location Bar", gives me a list of Bugzilla links

"It is also used to implement an improved algorithm for the new location bar auto-complete feature (dubbed the "Awesomebar").[29][30]"

It's an autocomplete feature. So what.

assuming sufficient time, effort and resources, which we don't always have.

Trouble is, almost nobody uses WebDAV.

It seems like WebDAV would be a natural for this sort of thing-- Robust HTTP protocol, security over SSL, delta compression using Deltav, easy to set up with well known webservers like Apache HTTP, supported by Windows, MacOSX and Linux (Looks like a local folder, but it's on the network), etc.

But there are very few products that use WebDAV, and the idea has been around since the late 90s.

I can't tell why. Maybe something is horribly wrong with the WebDAV specification. I've tried a few implementations, but they seem immature and slow.

No no, clearly you need to click on MY link.

https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTI0MDY5MDU5

Not only will you and I both get an extra 250MB of space, but you will help me keep more precious photos of my children in the cloud, for FREE!

I currently run Dropbox on 3 computers-- One Ubuntu Server, one Windows Desktop and one Windows Laptop. It's nice to have the same set of files everywhere. Not only is it convenient to have the same set of files on all 3 machines, but I like the redundancy offered by the distributed storage-- It's on 3 drives here and is also hosted in the cloud.

I can take the laptop with me to show the family photos & videos to my folks. But the files are still kept safe at home and at dropbox.com.

I might also install it on another machine outside of the San Francisco quake zone, to offer one more point of redundancy.

It's the kind of open source where you download the source and compile it. I believe that the Chromium license allows redistribution.

Do you download binary kernels from Kernel.org, for example? No, you probably download and compile the source from kernel.org, or you wait for someone else to provide binaries for you.

It sounds like a television, with more interactivity. Hook the appliance into a screen, connect to the broadband service and you'll have a functioning computer.

Thanks. I knew I was going to have a typo somewhere... I'm going to go hang my head in shame now.