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The jars the wizard has at hand, and the scroll (“shell script”) are familiar looking things like “null”, “tar”, “uucp”, “diff”, “awk”, “C”,... but “oregano”? I

by bch 6y ago

The jars the wizard has at hand, and the scroll (“shell script”) are familiar looking things like “null”, “tar”, “uucp”, “diff”, “awk”, “C”,... but “oregano”? Is that a joke or a codename or some deprecated tool?

acidburnNSA 6y ago
The Wizard's hat is labeled "su" and the huge shell that everything is mixing in is brilliant. Also note the pipes on the ceiling. This is amazing. Oregano is still around! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregano_%28software%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregano_%28software%29
- kps 6y ago
  That ‘Oregano’ probably belongs to the wrong decade, if not the wrong century. A thread on comp.unix.wizards suggests that it is a reference to a Berkeley developer caught crossing the US–Canada border with a bag of oregano — that was actually oregano.
  - acidburnNSA 6y ago
    Oops. Yeah you're right. Wrong century millennium, no less! They do mention the circuit simulator, SPICE in that same thread. But still, not this oregano for sure. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.unix.wizards/kFdPoJBpcSA/d4442Sr2g9EJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.unix.wizards/kFdPoJBpcS...
  - mojomark 6y ago
    "Kaffee : It was oregano, Dave. It was ten dollars' worth of oregano. Lieutenant Dave Spradling : Yeah, but your client thought it was marijuana. Kaffee : My client's a moron. That's not against the law. Lieutenant Dave Spradling : Kaffee, I have people to answer to, just like you do. I'm going to charge him. Kaffee : With what? Possession of a condiment?"
coliveira 6y ago
The image also has a cat.
- bch 6y ago
  And the “B” container is cracked, indicating they’ve moved on from B to C, and there’s a spool of thread (process threads?) - lots to enjoy, but oregano is still a mystery.
  - gbacon 6y ago
    Possibly a reference to /{usr,var}/spool.
    - cat199 6y ago
      if it is a reference, this is probably more likely than process threads, since 'threads' as a native construct were a mid/late 90s addition to unix systems
- bfabio 6y ago
  Also a fork, a broken pipe, a boot and I guess that's a log on the right.
coliveira 6y ago
above the magician, one can see a lot of pipes.
abhgh 6y ago
Electrical circuit simulation [1] ... didn't know about this myself either, but noticed its still available in the Ubuntu repo and installed it. EDIT: just noticed the comment by user kps in the sibling tree - might not be the software since it is too recent to be on the poster. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregano_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregano_(software)

by bch 6y ago

acidburnNSA 6y ago

The Wizard's hat is labeled "su" and the huge shell that everything is mixing in is brilliant. Also note the pipes on the ceiling. This is amazing. Oregano is still around! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregano_%28software%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregano_%28software%29

kps 6y ago
That ‘Oregano’ probably belongs to the wrong decade, if not the wrong century. A thread on comp.unix.wizards suggests that it is a reference to a Berkeley developer caught crossing the US–Canada border with a bag of oregano — that was actually oregano.
- acidburnNSA 6y ago
  Oops. Yeah you're right. Wrong century millennium, no less! They do mention the circuit simulator, SPICE in that same thread. But still, not this oregano for sure. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.unix.wizards/kFdPoJBpcSA/d4442Sr2g9EJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.unix.wizards/kFdPoJBpcS...
- mojomark 6y ago
  "Kaffee : It was oregano, Dave. It was ten dollars' worth of oregano. Lieutenant Dave Spradling : Yeah, but your client thought it was marijuana. Kaffee : My client's a moron. That's not against the law. Lieutenant Dave Spradling : Kaffee, I have people to answer to, just like you do. I'm going to charge him. Kaffee : With what? Possession of a condiment?"

coliveira 6y ago

The image also has a cat.

bch 6y ago
And the “B” container is cracked, indicating they’ve moved on from B to C, and there’s a spool of thread (process threads?) - lots to enjoy, but oregano is still a mystery.
- gbacon 6y ago
  Possibly a reference to /{usr,var}/spool.
  - cat199 6y ago
    if it is a reference, this is probably more likely than process threads, since 'threads' as a native construct were a mid/late 90s addition to unix systems
bfabio 6y ago
Also a fork, a broken pipe, a boot and I guess that's a log on the right.

coliveira 6y ago

above the magician, one can see a lot of pipes.

abhgh 6y ago

Electrical circuit simulation [1] ... didn't know about this myself either, but noticed its still available in the Ubuntu repo and installed it. EDIT: just noticed the comment by user kps in the sibling tree - might not be the software since it is too recent to be on the poster. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregano_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregano_(software)