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25 Years of O'Reilly Books

Posted by chrisd on from the from-x-to-perl-to-nursing dept.

wka writes "The year 2003 marks the 25th anniversary of publisher O'Reilly and Associates. O'Reilly has a site to mark the event. Readers can learn about the origin of the first animal covers in the time line, and read an anniversary message from Tim O'Reilly, stating his 'audacious' goal '[t]o change the world by capturing and transmitting the knowledge of innovators.'"

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  1. Books by FS1 · · Score: -1, Troll
    Does anybody read these antiquated forms of data transmission any more. :)

    On a more serious note, why does slashdot keep posting stories lately that really have no business here. It seems to be more of a deluge of useless stuff, instead of stuff that matters.

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  2. wget -r by SystematicPsycho · · Score: 0, Troll

    wget has served well.

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  3. Re:The Perl book is the most memorable... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    he's a fucking criminal.

    thank god i chased him off Slasdhot forever.

  4. are the books infected by decimal ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't want anything with decimal numbers on it. Including page numbers. Decimal is for stupid people.

  5. Drop Dead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Drop Dead

  6. If you want serious books by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Buy your books from Prentice-Hall. ORA is pop-science for computer dilettantes.

  7. On the Linux, Perl, PHP, O'Reilly bandwagon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And you watch anime all day cause you're unemployed. Post your daily M$ bash on /. and get a woody cause you're part of the geek in-croud.
    Open Source!!! Fight the Power!!!

    Haven't found many good O'Reilly books myself. Most of my favorites seem to be Addison-Wesley

    "I dream of penguins because /. told me to"

  8. Sure, but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    When it comes to pseudo-Computer Science related jobs like system administration or network engineering, Addison Wesley doesn't come through.

    For real computer science and software engineering, AW is great. But for things like figuring out how to send naughty messages to all your users at once or resetting someone's password, O'Reilly rules the roost.

  9. MOD PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    +5, So true