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agwa on Feb 18, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Whiteboard Clock

The author says the device is a USB modem. So, under Linux, the author could have simply written a udev rule to use the name "whiteboard" for that particular USB modem's device file.

m-ou-se on Feb 18, 2015 | [–]

Indeed. It's just a udev rule with: SYMLINK+="whiteboard

seryoiupfurds on Feb 18, 2015 | [–]

And even under plain-Jane Unix, you can name a device file whatever you want.

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