Linux Hardware Driver Poetry

The street preacher looked so baffled When I asked him why he dressed With forty pounds of headlice Stapled to his chest But he cursed me when I proved to him I said, "Not even you can hide. You see, you're just like me. I hope you're satisfied." -- Bob Dylan / The first thing we do, let's kill all \ | the lawyers. -- Wm. Shakespeare, "Henry | | VI", Part IV How To Talk to Hardware: Writing Device Drivers on Linux.

A Linux desktop screenshot shows a terminal displaying absurd poetry and a Shakespeare quotation beside a webcam image of a woman. The joke presents writing hardware drivers as if it were communicating with a strange, uncooperative person, making the technical task sound theatrical and surreal. EN: A Linux desktop screenshot shows a terminal displaying absurd poetry and a Shakespeare quotation beside a webcam image of a woman. The joke presents writing hardware drivers as if it were communicating with a strange, uncooperative person, making the technical task sound theatrical and surreal.

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