Greetings, On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Owen DeLong wrote:
> >> I'm sorry to quibble with the majority here, but, in this case, I think > >> we have enough problems with ambiguous terminology in > >> networking and this opportunity to avoid creating one more should > >> not be missed. > > > (The above paragraph was mainly so that I had an opportunity to toss > quibble into the text with it's other meaning). > > > Agreed. OTOH, Hextet is not technically correct while appearing to be so. > > > > > True... The correct term would be decohextet, but, decohextet is rather > long both to say and to write and really doesn't roll off the tongue the > way hextet does. I like to call it a "HexNot" - a hexidecimal representation of zeros. :: --- Jay Nugent () ascii ribbon campaign in /\ support of plain text e-mail Train how you will Operate, and you will Operate how you were Trained. +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Jay Nugent j...@nuge.com (734)484-5105 (734)649-0850/Cell | | Nugent Telecommunications [www.nuge.com] | | Internet Consulting/Linux SysAdmin/Engineering & Design/ISP Reseller | | ISP Monitoring [www.ispmonitor.org] ISP & Modem Performance Monitoring | | Web-Pegasus [www.webpegasus.com] Web Hosting/DNS Hosting/Shell Accts| +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 12:01pm up 72 days, 21:25, 3 users, load average: 0.15, 0.07, 0.05