Driving home
I followed a red VW Beetle that had a bumper sticker that said "There's no place like 198.120.1.1" and had a license plate that read "FF0000".

I giggled at the sheer geekery of this, the realized that knowing the significance of these made me as much of a geek as the driver.

So the question is, did I pass a test or fail at life?
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 29 Oct 2008, 22:39, 8 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Well imho
I think it makes you all of the awesome.

I also want that bumper sticker
( Captain V, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 22:48, Reply)

198.120.1.1 ?
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
( le brian, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 22:51, Reply)

Damn you loon
I'm now looking for a nice geeky numberplate that I wont be able to afford ='[

:edit: Best so far is BIOS X at £999...
( Captain V, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 23:11, Reply)

The 198.120.1.1
is a home IP Address. So the joke is basically "there's no place like home", but with a serious geeky twist.

FF0000 is the hexidecimal code for red in HTML.

And yes, I knew these things offhand.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 30 Oct 2008, 0:17, Reply)

I think I know where that person bought the bumper sticker
I saw something like that on thinkgeek.com a couple of days ago.

Edit: here is the link to buy the bumper sticker:
www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/car/5fa6/
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Thu 30 Oct 2008, 0:34, Reply)

Well
The 192.168.x.x range is the ip range used for home machines along with the class B of 10.x.x.x.

But to be strict, the home ip address is 127.0.0.1

That's the local loopback address of IP connected machines. Also known as HOME.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 7:08, Reply)

To be really strict
192.168.0.0/16, 172.16.0.0/12 and 10.0.0.0/8 are private internet allocations ("RFC1918 addresses"), which is why I was wondering where 198.120.1.1 came from.

I've seen the "There's no place like 127.0.0.1 thing before", which just made me thing "No place like localhost? How ridiculous". After all, localhost is only home if you're using a machine at home.
( le brian, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 9:23, Reply)

I was going by memory.
I recognized it as an IP address, and just pulled a couple of numbers from the air to fill it in.

I think you're right- it was 127.0.0.1 instead.

Glad to know that someone else in here is farther down the road to geek hell than I am...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 30 Oct 2008, 10:12, Reply)