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Anyone know of a similar-quality version of ‘4.2 > V’? The best I've found is an eighth the size.
What is this, by the way? I'm having a hard time searching for it.
> "This poster is extremely rare. My father illustrated this series. He was not happy with the quality of the posters and inadvertently made them rare by throwing them all away. He still has the other two-a small handful that he is willing to sell." [0]
> "This is my father’s artwork. Believe he still has some to sell. I can’t recall which of the pictures he was not happy with the posters and threw almost all of them away. One of them is very rare." [1]
> "This is my father’s artwork. Believe he still has some of these for sale. He will sign if you’d like." [2]
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfGV-jBxizU
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6mGUT4vcIg
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGKzuP3GYRM
Here is also some Reddit threads from people wanting to obtain copies:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ifmoua/ive_finally_f...
https://www.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/20cj6h/unix_magic_any...
https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/91ntoh/oc_unix_ma...
To anyone interested in obtaining the other two posters in the series (UNIX Views & UNIX Feuds) here is some information from Marshall Overacre, son of the author: > "This poster is extremely rare. My father illustrated this series. He was not happy with the quality of the posters and inadvertently made them rare by throwing them all away. He still has the other two-a small handful that he is willing to sell." [0] >…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've just tried to find Gary Overacre on the web. This page, http://scad-atl-illu.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-weekend.html , has a link to www.garyoveracre.com but it doesn't exist. Jeff Atwood has the same link on this Coding Horror page: https://blog.codinghorror.com/are-recipes-for-novices/ . Perhaps Atwood knows where Overacre is? Gary Overacre seems to have been a moderately important illustrator in the US with ma…
Last capture of www.garyoveracre.com by the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20121107182326/http://www.garyov...
I expected this to be about actual Unix Magic numbers, which are how UNIX/Linux/BSD/etc. determines file types. [0] Unix Magic was only one out of three posters in a set. Unix Feuds. Unix Views. Unix Magic. You can see them all on an image search. [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming) [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22unix+views%22+or+%22unix+feuds%22+OR+%22unix+magic%22+poster
Would be awesome to see the original artist open source the art work for official download, and perhaps for a price which could go towards some OSS development. I’m sure people would pay for it.
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ifmoua/ive_finally_f...
If you want the poster and are in Germany, hit me up, I’ll print it for cost of ink on good 8 colors printer and hahnemühle paper.
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.
> Also, what's "Oregano" in this context? Seems out of place if it's just the herb/spice. This is answered in the second paragraph of the linked post... > 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.
I have this printed out and hanging on my wall. Totally worth it.
