What is 68 6f 6d 65?
a simple decoding using this website will reveal that it is simply 4 hexadecimal (hex) characters representing 4 binary bytes which in turn represent 4 ASCII letters.translation??? it just means "home"
hexadecimal is a base-16 shorthand for binary (all you midi-heads should be doing the whole "ahhhhh yes" thing and nodding your heads about now) where every hexadecimal digit represents a group of 4 binary bits.
lets look first at HEX to DECIMAL to BINARY,
h = d = b
0 = 0 = 0000
1 = 1 = 0001
2 = 2 = 0010
3 = 3 = 0011
4 = 4 = 0100
5 = 5 = 0101
6 = 6 = 0110
7 = 7 = 0111
8 = 8 = 1000
9 = 9 = 1001
a = 10 = 1010
b = 11 = 1011
c = 12 = 1100
d = 13 = 1101
e = 14 = 1110
f = 15 = 1111
from the above, and then using the standard ASCII text table, we can easily translate my message:
68 6f 6d 65 = 01101000 01101111 01101101 01100101 = h o m e
radical! now go crack open a beer.