The UNIX Feuds poster is great too. Would love to get a high-res scan to print out of it too: https://www.flickr.com/photos/32496748@N03/3038053405
And also UNIX Views https://twitter.com/marcvolovic/status/1122450821541707777
The Unix Magic Poster
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#32Things I can identify in the poster: - A wizard (which is a reference to a highly knowledgeable UNIX expert) - the cauldron the wizard is using is in the shape of a seashell, and there are shells on the wizard's hat (on UNIX the shell is a textual interface between the user and the operating system) - the wizard's hat has the word "su" on it ("su" is the "superuser" command used to "become" a "superuser", ie. the mos…
jfo is Joe Ossanna, the author of troff who died in 1977.
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#33This 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?
Books on the bookshelf (top-right) are:
- daemons
- whoami
- traps
- curses
- pwd
- inbox
bags hanging underneath them:
- spawn
- nroff
- dates
- root
a log against the fireplace wall which says "login",
with potion-like bottles saying "uucp"
and the biggest bottle of potion is named "C" (of course),
while an old broken bottle lies on the ground called "B" (of course)
Symbols on the wizard's clothes are all unix symbols:
- $ (default PS1)
- * (glob)
- % (substring)
- > and Now to the bottom (right to left):
- A jar called "troff"
- A spool called "usr"
- Container called "awk"
- A jar of "oregano"
- Cursive writing on a parchment paper, "shell script"
- A small cup of "tar"
- Another bottle called "diff"
Update: Ah, you said excluding the words! I guess I was too excited to write down what I saw :P
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#34Had some good experience with Whitewall in the past. Pricey but worth it.
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#35Has anyone fixated on the design of the Wizard's hat? Although it lacks the degree of floppiness I'd expect of a truly magnificent Wizard's hat, it makes up for it with a long ribbon at the end which you could probably swirl around your head quite magnificently.
I suppose the hat helps keep his hair out of his face and the ribbon is there to remind him not to tilt his head too much into the shell? Or perhaps the ribbon is made of a reactive material which serves as a canary?
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#36Somewhat related(!): http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/heavy-wizardry.html
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#37Things I can identify in the poster: - A wizard (which is a reference to a highly knowledgeable UNIX expert) - the cauldron the wizard is using is in the shape of a seashell, and there are shells on the wizard's hat (on UNIX the shell is a textual interface between the user and the operating system) - the wizard's hat has the word "su" on it ("su" is the "superuser" command used to "become" a "superuser", ie. the mos…
> there is a black cat, which is also in keeping with the wizard theme, but I'm not sure whether it corresponds to anything specific in UNIX either
"cat" is a common command in Unix, it concatenates files (and if you give it one pathname, it displays the file).
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#39Things I can identify in the poster: - A wizard (which is a reference to a highly knowledgeable UNIX expert) - the cauldron the wizard is using is in the shape of a seashell, and there are shells on the wizard's hat (on UNIX the shell is a textual interface between the user and the operating system) - the wizard's hat has the word "su" on it ("su" is the "superuser" command used to "become" a "superuser", ie. the mos…
> there is a black cat, which is also in keeping with the wizard theme, but I'm not sure whether it corresponds to anything specific in UNIX either "cat" is a common command in Unix, it concatenates files (and if you give it one pathname, it displays the file).
Oh, right, of course! cat!
Don't know how I missed that one...
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#40Anyone know of a similar-quality version of ‘4.2 > V’? The best I've found is an eighth the size.