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The Unix Magic Poster

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Re: The Unix Magic Poster

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Post by morsch »

eek04_ wrote: post #15
Naac wrote: 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.)

In my experience, Whitewall is also not exactly the cheapest store around (but they are very good).

Re: The Unix Magic Poster

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

carbonguy wrote: post #13
ryan-duve wrote: post #2

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?

Check out the "steam" rising from the cauldron...

Re: The Unix Magic Poster

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Post by hcs »

asyncanup wrote: post #33
ryan-duve wrote: post #2

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?

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 symb…

The jar between uucp and C has a label that ends with "ke", could this be "make"?

Re: The Unix Magic Poster

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Post by vincent-manis »

asyncanup wrote: post #33
ryan-duve wrote: post #2

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?

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 symb…

I assume that the letters jfo on the nroff bag refer to joe ossana, the original author of [nt]roff.

Re: The Unix Magic Poster

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Post by lordgrenville »

pmoriarty wrote: post #27

Things 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…

Thanks for the explanations!

Nitpick: a daemon can do a lot of things besides responding to requests, so I wouldn't say it's usually used as a server.

Re: The Unix Magic Poster

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Post by throwanem »

earthscienceman wrote: post #8

Hmmmm. I'm not sure I would want one that big, but I would love a smaller one. I wonder who does similar quality prints in the US

Bay Photo (https://www.bayphoto.com/) is where I go for sizes larger than I can print on my own. They've never let me down, and while their prices are significant for larger formats, they're not out of line with what I've seen from other shops. Good, fast shipping, too.

They do print on aluminum, similar to the described style - it's definitely not "dibond" in that there's no backing aluminum layer and by default (at least) no foamcore backing, but I've honestly never felt the lack. That said, when I hang prints, I hang them framed, so maybe it's a treatment designed for display on its own; when I do get aluminum prints from Bay Photo, they're generally one-offs of signs or other oddball stuff, so I don't really worry about fine-art presentation on those.

Re: The Unix Magic Poster

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Post by whydoyoucare »

pmoriarty wrote: post #27

Things 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…

Wonderful observation, enjoyed reading this.

I am surprised though you did not recognize DMR (Dennis M. Ritchie) and BWK (Brian W. Kerighan). :-)

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