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Topic: O'Reilly

Vital Stats

The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:

Favorite website(s):

Slashdot

Favorite possession(s):

Linux box, Apple Computer, Windows computer

People talk about their ..:

Geekiness

Dream job(s):

Webmaster

Favorite activity(s):

Studying

Favorite book(s):

"Maximum Internet Security: A Hackers Guide" by Net Sams
"Beginning Visual Basic 6" by Peter Wright
"Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating an HTML Web Page" by Scott J McFedries

Favorite animal(s):

Penguin

Interest(s):

Computers

Favorite computer game(s):

Hacking

Favorite online activity(s):

Building websites, Finding warez, Writing in their secret blog

Membership(s):

Free Software Foundation

Favorite quote(s):

"Black holes are where God divided by zero." - Steven Wright
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup

Expert Talk

The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.

John Fielding,
CEO

O'Reilly's initial public stock offering in April 1993 was well received by investors as a welcome addition to the publicly traded companies in the automotive aftermarket.

Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

O'Reilly's $45 Mastering Perl/Tk by Steve Lidie and Nancy Walsh explains how to use the Tk widget library to create attractive graphical interfaces for Perl scripts; it was written for "novices and seasoned Perl/Tk programmers alike.
O'Reilly's Java RMI author William Grosso introduces you to the basic ideas behind command objects by providing a translation service from a remote server and using command objects to structure the RMI made from a client program.
Now O'Reilly's Oracle PL/SQL CD Bookshelf allows convenient online access to updates of favorite O'Reilly Oracle books.

Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator site (GNN, which was sold to America Online in September 1995) was the first Web portal and the first true commercial site on the World Wide Web.
O'Reilly's WebBoard and the Lyris listserv are available to developers wishing to add another level of communication to their web site.

Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

Now O'Reilly's Linux Web Server CD Bookshelf gives you the same convenient online access to your favorite O'Reilly books - from your CD-ROM drive.
Now O'Reilly's Perl CD Bookshelf gives you convenient online access to your favorite books from your CD-ROM drive.

Mark Harris,
Priest

FATHER O'REILLY'S TRUE CONFESSIONS: PART ONE My name is Father Francis O'Reilly and everything you are about to read is absolutely true, as told to me by parishioners in my flock!
FATHER O'REILLY'S TRUE CONFESSIONS: PART TWO My name is Father Francis O'Reilly and everything you are about to read is absolutely true, as told to me by parishioners in my flock!

Jordan Jones,
Rapper

In Bill O'Reilly's estimation, all you have to do to make money off hip-hop is "think up rhymes about cocaine.
And despite O'Reilly's revisionist efforts to deny their existence, many of gangsta rap's earliest critics were black.

User Talk

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From:
Shawn Christensen
2005-03-29 13:12:48

What is O'Reilly's market share?

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