My hardware will probably break your software. Beat that. This is actually one of the drawbacks of learning both hardware and software: when something breaks,

My hardware will probably break your software. Beat that. This is actually one of the drawbacks of learning both hardware and software: when something breaks, you can never say that's not your department. You can get away from that by simply buying stuff from other people, but you can't always trust it; I was using some off-the-shelf hardware yesterday that literally exploded. Like in Star Trek.