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The Unix Magic Poster

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Re: The Unix Magic Poster

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post #7

Is 80 Euros the standard price for a custom poster? I see that the .tiff is available, and I'm down to take it to my local print shop, but only if the total print cost is about $20-$30

if you want a paper poster, it will be a lot cheaper. OP had it printed on some rigid aluminium composite.

Re: The Unix Magic Poster

#12
I have a copy of that poster in good condition as well as at least one related one (Unix wars), but am too lazy to dig it out so I'll go from memory.

There are tees in the pipes and I think the trap and valve was significant. I think the bucket is catching a (memory) leak. Is the guy outside using a reaper? That's not just a spool, but a /usr/spool. There was some talk that the castle represented a domain. And of course the big c shell cauldron.

Re: The Unix Magic Poster

#13

This is phenomenal. All the eggs I could find are: the spool, pipe, cat, thread (on the far left), shell, boot and fork. Are there any others, not including the characters on the cape and the words on the bags/jars?

- The wizard hat says "su," naturally

- The "shell process" (visual pun! I love it) is "outputting to null"

- The hat ribbon has the initials "dmr," "kt," and "bwk" - presumably Dennis M. Ritchie, Ken Thompson, and Brian W. Kernighan

Any others?

Re: The Unix Magic Poster

#14
post #7

Is 80 Euros the standard price for a custom poster? I see that the .tiff is available, and I'm down to take it to my local print shop, but only if the total print cost is about $20-$30

You pay for both the material it's printed on and the quality of the print. But mostly the material.

A 3-foot tall poster can be over $500 if you get top-notch quality and put it behind nice glass and a nice custom frame.

It's hard to tell how large the photo is here, but $80 isn't surprising at all if the material mentioned (Al Dibond) really is nice. I'm not familiar with it.

If you just want the poster on normal poster paper, I'm confident you could find a print shop to do it for $25.

Re: The Unix Magic Poster

#15
post #7

Is 80 Euros the standard price for a custom poster? I see that the .tiff is available, and I'm down to take it to my local print shop, but only if the total print cost is about $20-$30

An A3 (11-3/4" x 16-1/2") poster here in Ireland starts at around 7 euro ($7.50). 80 euros is presumably for the aluminium dibond print - which sounds like an extreme quality print material, and those gets expensive fast. An A3 on that starts at about 50 euro (and it sounds like the author got an A2 - twice the size of an A3.)

Re: The Unix Magic Poster

#16

This is phenomenal. All the eggs I could find are: the spool, pipe, cat, thread (on the far left), shell, boot and fork. Are there any others, not including the characters on the cape and the words on the bags/jars?

Log by the fireplace?

Re: The Unix Magic Poster

#17
post #7

Is 80 Euros the standard price for a custom poster? I see that the .tiff is available, and I'm down to take it to my local print shop, but only if the total print cost is about $20-$30

If you want to get something fancy like an Aluminium Dibond print, check your country's groupon, you usually find a 50% discount offer there.

Edit: I checked groupon.de and found a 40x60cm (near DIN A2) aluminium dibond print for 19€ + 7€ shipping ( https://www.groupon.de/deals/lieblingsfoto-73 )

Re: The Unix Magic Poster

#18
Faster download than the archive.org link, same png: https://github.com/tyingq/unix-magic-poster/raw/main/ump.png

Same resolution, lower quality / smaller (smooshed with pngquant): https://github.com/tyingq/unix-magic-poster/raw/main/ump2.pn...

Also, what's "Oregano" in this context? Seems out of place if it's just the herb/spice.

Re: The Unix Magic Poster

#19
post #5

I have a real one hanging in my living room lol. They're really beautiful pieces of art, and this is the best of the series by far.

Agreed! My wife and I each have one.

(had - one is now in the possession of my adult son)

Re: The Unix Magic Poster

#20
post #18

Faster download than the archive.org link, same png: https://github.com/tyingq/unix-magic-poster/raw/main/ump.png Same resolution, lower quality / smaller (smooshed with pngquant): https://github.com/tyingq/unix-magic-poster/raw/main/ump2.pn... Also, what's "Oregano" in this context? Seems out of place if it's just the herb/spice.

" The oregano is reputedly referring to an incident in which one of the original folks involved with BSD was hassled for coming across the Canadian/U.S. border with a bag of what was assumed to be an illegal substance, and turned out to be oregano. "
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