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The UNIX Wizard // Pic

codinghorror.com — The classic UNIX magic poster by Overacre was distributed at past USENIX conferences and featured a white bearded wizard with UNIX related things around him... (JPEG Image 977 X 1488 pixels) - Scaled (42%)

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  • underdog5004, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15I like how the contents of the shell are being drained into (presumably /dev/) null.
    • Niten, on 10/10/2007, -1/+27That's "piped", mister.
      • TheMidnight, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Anyone who could draw this well and somehow knows this much about UNIX must be doing a lot of piping. :-)
  • MrBabyMan, on 10/10/2007, -4/+11Heh! Root...null...tar...usr...oregano
  • holydope, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21Been looking for this poster for a while. Anyone know where I could get it?
  • schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -4/+13Why is he piping his output to null?
    • Terr01, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9The output is undefined. Where else should it go?
    • TheMidnight, on 10/10/2007, -1/+34He's deleting his Mplayer history...
    • latova, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20Do not question him, his hat says SU.
    • plamoni, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I think he looks like a hacker.... he's obviously performing a buffer overflow on the shell...
    • fluxion, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2hes just getting high off the fumes
  • spinchange, on 10/10/2007, -28/+1back-up of image: http://www.lifeonthegrid.com/2007/09/blog-post.html
    • SPThom, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11It's not a backup if it's pointing to the same place.
      • bzooty, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4sure it is...
        you never know when you might lose your, um, link
    • rpgmaker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Thats SPAM. Plain and simple.
  • PerfektXj, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22Sites going way slow, heres a mirror for anyone who needs http://bestpicever.com/pic-1024-Unix-magic
  • cygnus2112, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23I guess they really didn't need to label "cat" or "man".
  • ianarcher, on 10/10/2007, -20/+7Now if someone could Photoshop Ron Paul into that wizard outfit, it could become the official logo of digg.
  • Niten, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Can these be purchased anywhere?
  • nzezelj89, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11BACKUP TWICE ;-) jp, just direct mirror http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/1116/pic478003001189476910qw6.jpg
  • TheMidnight, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17Oh glorious UNIX Wizard, will thou grant me one hundred percent user uptime with zero percent CPU usage?
    • Terr01, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20Nay, for thou first must slay thine zombies.
    • morcheeba, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Yes, you may have that. But, if you ever use more than 0% CPU, then you will be cursed will less than 100% uptime.
    • nazsco, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2100% user uptime? Hell no, i'd love to Sleep sometime
  • madtaco, on 10/10/2007, -10/+2this poster will definitely get you the ladies...
    • sacherjj, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3No thanks, I prefer my women without the warts.
      • picsectionpleez, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0I think you missed the sarcasm
        • sacherjj, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Nope. It just wasn't very good sarcasm.
  • rnreekez, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10I like how even the unix wizard is using illegal manual labor. (window)
  • Markie1006, on 10/10/2007, -3/+16This is obviously a plant by the 'Get The Fact' crowd.
    A true UNIX guru needs no wizards.
    • astrotrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8And they need no Windows as depicted in the background of the picture...
      • flashingcurser, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1But it's a peasant in the window.....
        • ronaldb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Dennis. Not a peasant. Dennis. You didn't bother to find out his name, now, did you?
  • DiggDugglas, on 10/10/2007, -1/+50I put on my robe and my wizard hat
    • debuggercll, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Blood Ninja references are what makes the internet happen.
  • Otto, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Why isn't the cat putting something together? He should be attaching a couple of ends of strings or something.
    • MikeWanDo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3I can has UNIX?
    • SniperX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Not really. He should be spilling over bottles of contents into the shell.
  • MikeonTV, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5Oregano??
    • RavenndudE, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6oregano - GNOME application for schematic capture of electrical circuits
  • FenrisUlf, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Is that init (the process reaper) working outside?
  • apkennedy1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7There are three posters in this series. I have two of them but can't find the final one. They are great... I called the artist and got them directly from him. He is not a Unix guy or a tech guy just some graphic artist with a job to make posters.

    • ianrobertson, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Which ones do you have? I have Unix Views and Unix Magic, but am looking for Unix Feuds.
      • ammre, on 01/02/2008, -0/+0I have the feuds one. My mother found it in our attic. It's been rolled up so it has some creasing going on. I wish my mom had kept it better. I wonder if they are worth anything now a days...
    • tln98, on 01/15/2008, -0/+0I am looking to purchase Unix Views. Any ideas
  • keimel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6The artists website, apparantly:

    http://www.garyoveracre.com/
  • figec, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I have another one from around the same time where it is BSD vs SYSV. Funny to see Sun represented on the BSD side.
    • tehmoth, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0must have been before 1987. Though still looking for a good source for the Unix Wars/Star Wars poster.
  • aldebaran85, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0nice poster :)
  • greatgazz123, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0I have that one. I am currently looking for one that I think is called "Unix Feuds".
    • overacre, on 07/18/2008, -0/+0I Gary Overacre have the posters of the Unix Magic and the Feuds. Contact me at info@garyoveracre.com. Thanks

  • Dimentox, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0anyone have links to other posters like this?
  • Dimentox, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Anyone have any other cool UNIX / BSD / Linux ones?
  • Survivor303, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1damn that quality :(
  • SaltySnack, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1I love the fact that at first glance he appears to be in some magical castle, but looking at the room's ceiling, the plumbing pipes and floorboards reveal that this "Wizard" is actually living in his parent's basement. Loser. :-)
    • KyleYankan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2first floor - look out the window, you dolt
      • SaltySnack, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Not all basements are 100% below ground with no windows. Depending upon the grade/elevation of the lot, there may be no windows, some high windows, and *some* basements are walk-outs with full doors and full windows to the outside world. But I was just making a joke (notice the smiley) no reason to get upset and call me a dolt. Just because someone lives in their parent's basement does not mean they're a loser, and there's no reason for you to get offended, Kyle. :-)
  • meuserj, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4My uncle who is a Unix sysadmin always had this on his office wall. I spent a lot of time in his office when I was first learning about Unix from him and slowly understood the visual puns as I progressed.
  • pointfivezero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000594.html
    http://www.unix.org/uposter.html
  • spoonyfork, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1... eh, she receive hair on chest, and vazhïn hang like sleeve of wizard.
  • roach, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I still have this poster as well :) Is it worth much? :)
  • jayasanders, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Yer Mom's my UNIX Wizard...www.gogodojo.com
  • antdude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Is there a bigger size?
  • roach, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Right now the best I can do is this...
    http://members.iinet.net.au/~dibbz/unixmagic.jpg
  • urgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3No, the scaling didn't affect the image at all, everything is still very readable ...
    Nice job there mate.
  • spacefaced, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I like how the "log" that goes "in" the fire represents "login".
  • mossboss, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0The real Unix wizard. http://forums.programming-designs.com/viewtopic.php?id=599
  • Jecos, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I have this poster in my office.
  • overacre, on 07/18/2008, -0/+0go to info@garyoveracre.com He can (Gary) can tell you what is available. He is the illustrator and has posters available.
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