Re: [PLUG] Comcast "OPEN IMMEDIATELY" but don't

[leroy <leroy@leroybrown.com>]

nope, it's 6 bytes.  

[0-f][0-f] = 16 * 16 = 256 bits = 1 byte

stephen

-- i hate crackerbarrel

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 08:15:27PM -0500, Bill Jonas wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 04:03:02PM -0800, Jim Trocki wrote:
> > > that's six bytes :)
> > 
> > Yes, but twelve nybbles.  What, you can't read minds?  ;-)
> 
> You're both wrong. It's 24 bytes.
> 
> Six blocks of two characters of hexidecimal.
> 
> That's two bytes per hex digit (8 bits to a bit, 16 values per hex
> digit) times two digits per block times six blocks. 2 x 2 x 6 = 24.
> 
> I understand Bill's error. I don't think I understand Jim's.
> 
> The first tip to both of you should have been that neither 6 nor
> 12 is a power of 2. Computer engineers *really* like powers of 2.
> 
> Also, note that these:
> 
> 00:0f:3c:0b:00:02
> 0:f:3c:b:0:2
> 
> ... mean the same thing in the world of MAC addrs.
> 
> (Sun ships machines labeled with the second format, various software
> vendors insist that the former be used for their licensing keys.
> These software vendors should clearly be kept far away from IPv6 for
> fear it would drive them stark, raving mad.)
> 
> 


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