You can try this:

if(macs[ 0 ])mac_string += macs[ 0 ];
if(macs[ 1 ])mac_string += macs[ 1 ];

Then filter or import only first 17 characters…

Here’s my [current] list of gripes/hates:
1) The debugger randomly fires-off a 2nd thread in the middle of debug sessions. WTF?
2) Half the short-cut keys DON’T FRACKING WORK. Sure, Ctrl-Shift-R, Ctrl-O, Ctrl-Q, etc. all sound like useful short cuts. But they DON’T WORK. It’s like “Hey, look at all this candy…but you can’t have it! Psych!”
3) Debug anything for longer than 10 minutes, and Eclipse gets hung-up so I have to kill the process.
4) Eclipse doesn’t stop in the debug view when you stop at a breakpoint. Erm, you know, the *BREAKPOINT* should be a clear indication about what I’m trying to accomplish here. How hard is that?
5) The editor window thinks the files I have opened are changed even if I undo all the changes.
6) The editor tabs do not display the whole filename, so it’s no good trying to navigate through like-named files via the tabs. For example — AccountBean.java, AccountAction.java, AccountUtilities.java, etc. all end up being “Account…” when I have many files open.
7) The debugger never saves the debug expressions after I close and re-open Eclipse. Greeeeat. Yeah, I love typing all that stuff in again.
You can’t open and edit a file that is outside your workspace. WTF!? You have to use something “robust” like Notepad.exe to be able to do this crazy kind of file-editing nonsense. Actually, now that I think of it…this is GENIUS! Eclipse is a shitty editor, so forcing me to use something else does actually help me. Thanks, Eclipso-philes!
9) You can’t dynamically change the size of fonts in the Eclipse. Notepad++ lets me use Ctrl-mousewheel to resize my editor. “Powerful” Eclipse can’t do this.
10) Eclipse hemorrhages files into the .metadata directory for your project workspace. Good luck trying to package all of that environment configuration information to a big, widely-distributed development team. My .metadata directory is 82MB and ~1000 files. My project workspace is 43MB and ~4000 files. WTF does Eclipse need all this .metadata crap for!? And Eclipse does not provide a “purge” utility to help you clean this crap up.
11) You can’t navigate between the different views using keyboard shortcuts in a consistent way. You always have to mouse-click into the view you want. It’s giant waste of time.

I have dozens more, but I think you see my point.

However my problem with is eclipse is that it like a product is messy, buggy and tries to do to much – I think meed to look at intellj or whatever they call it – I suppose at the end of the day you get what you pay for. Eclipse’s website seems to confuse me – I know there different plugins – but show a nice screenshot and examine all the different parts, I can’t help but feel the problem is people think if you can’t use eclipse – you shouldn’t be using it – I just don’t think there should be any startup problems with a fresh download.

like everything else i should swear and say it bollocks that this much effort put into a project and it’s not as good as it should be. perhaps that the problem – I think the only reason people look at eclipse is that they think it’s way of using it to customise in a product tooling way.

So what the hell – I wasted an hour and bored of this buggy piece of SXXX

Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio has now changed to Eclipse and…WOOHOO!!! I press a button that used to take 100ms to run my DSP code now it takes 5 fucking seconds! Great! What an upgrade! I’m an old man. I don’t have this kind of time to throw away.

Consider this – if you Java guys can manage to add enough layers of abstraction, eventually you may NEVER have to write ANY fucking code at all!!! Don’t shit on Eclipse for something that most of you are guilty of – writing shit (or zero) code in a shit framework that makes people in the real world suffer. OK?

Seriously, you Java people are living in a world where us hardware guys just feed you increasing performance on a plate and you think that means your code can just get shittier and shittier. That’s fine, but these days I’m finding myself being forced to use your fucking tools and it’s killing me.

Can you imagine how quickly the world would be turning if you were smart or dedicated enough to learn a real fucking language? e.g. why does the embedded IDE I use today do mostly the same as the one I used 15 years ago, but back then it used to run faster on a 40MHz computer?

Eclipse is a symptom of the shit that you guys are dishing up.

Interesting that you’re all complaining about how bad it is.

NOTE ***

My sincere apologies to any of you that are trying to write real code with this piece of shit. Sorry. I’ve had a rather bad Eclipse day – just in case you can’t tell…

And now what really matters: Eclipse is an enourmous piece of sh…

After having suffered it from time to time along aproximately 3 to 4 years… I finally got a (legal) version of Visual Studio 2008 from my University (is it called like that? college?) and it works like a charm…

Sorry for all the MS haters out there (I’m truly not glad for MS having such monopolistic politics but well, that’s another story…)