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Linux Beer Hike 2000
troc writes: Here's the "info on this year's Linux Beer Hike sponsored by SuSE (and others).
It's a European event, where Linux users wander around a nice hilly area, drink beer and exercise their minds of an evening doing Linuxy stuff. " I wanted to go last year, but my flabby ass probably
shouldn't be goin' on ye old hacker hike ;)
The mountains of the Lake District may be small (although really not much smaller than those of Wales or Scotland) but they are still real mountains - exposed barren rock, extremes of climate and steep and unforgiving terrain - belittle them at your peril.
Nick
PS For those who are interested, the route in the piccie is Shadowfax on Scafell, E4 (about 5.11d on the US scale)
-- "It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park" - Jim Moran
Here in the Bay Area, my favorites are Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and Anchor Steam beer. Beer that are definitely distinctive in taste and WAY superior to that p*** called Budweiser. ;-)
Raymond in Mountain View, CA
Just what kind of beer were you drinking? If you were in Bavaria, beer has to be fairly cold because the purity laws there results in beer that goes stale pretty quickly at warmer temperatures.
It depends on what is the yeast used to ferment the beer; if it doesn't ferment on the bottom of the barrel, then it could be served at wine cellar temperatures (10-12 degrees Celsius) without going stale quickly.
Raymond in Mountain View, CA
...would be Belgium? It's not as hilly, so less strenuous for unfit geeks. Plus they have great beer. Lots of styles, most of them very alcoholic. German beer, while better than the piss that Americans apparently enjoy drinking, gets a little samey after a few liters.
Or better yet, England. Gentle, rolling hills, and the best beer in the world.
Disclaimer: I was born in England, but live in Minnesota. Don't anyone suggest a Linux Showshoeing Hike.
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OK, have at least one other participant for this.
Should be using the Auberges, such as Formule1, Balladins, Climat de France, Etap, Ibis, Nuit d'Hotel in addition to other accomodations.
Will be checking with a number of French friends for people who live along the route. Croissants, cafes, vin. Might start with train visit to Champagne before the biking too (optional).
Will check with my film friends as to invites for events at Cannes towards end of trip. Need to get schedule for that part.
Will in Seattle
Since I lack tattoos and metal apparati protruding from my body, this event would be probably be out of my social umbrella. I would pay for a stripper to show up just to watch the reaction from a bunch of drunk hackers.
"I can code a kernel but this bra strap is beyond me".
If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem
Ja, vell, admittin' dat yur livin in Minnesota vasn't too smart eeder. Now yoo'll hav all dose Scandinavian hackers stoppin by an sayin "Hallo! Ain't Linux great!"
>;)
-Vel
Disclaimer: I don't need a Bork translator.
Although Linux-branded beer would be an interesting idea.
I hate posting the same link twice in one day, but it's Friday so what the hell...
If they can sell Linux-branded underwear, then I'm sure there must be a market for Linux-branded beer. Oh what I wouldn't give to be in Tux's position right now...
numb
PS: I know there are some reasonably good beers in the US too, I was being melodramatic.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Hiking, drinking beer, talking about shit - this sounds like one hell of a way to spend some time. However, I suppose I'd get sick of walking around with people talking in script kiddie speak or about stuff I have no idea about/understand/care about. I'd guess if I went with a few friends, it'd be fun as hell.
Eruantalon
Eruantalon
The Annals of Middle-earth
I've gotta come to the defence of Guiness here ;)
It's not beer, it's Stout,...
Stout (und thus Guinness) IS a beer. Compare http://beerhunter.com/beerstyles.html.
Of course, the guinness, served here in the US does differentiate in taste from the original guinness quite a lot, I've been told. I don't know about guinness, but Beck's (also a beer, though a Pilsener) for example DOES taste quite different in the US than it does in Germany.
Unfortunately for me, the americans seem to prefer ale and lager (both beer's as well) to Pilsener, so that beck's had to adjust their beer to the american market.
Heineken is ok over here, not much better or worse than in the Netherlands and probably the best Pilsener you can get in the US is Pilsener Urquell.
I find it importantto mention that the *original* Budweiser, a czech Pilsener, is a _delicous_ beer, while the beer commonly known under the name "Budweiser" is HORSEPISS!
-- "Tradition is the illusion of permanence."
Hiking?
It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
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Hammer of Truth
Drinking and coding is bad news: look what it did to Cox and the Linux kernel!
Although the DOS compatibility is a nice side-effect, after kicking back a few... I guess...
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Read the page. It says you should have an interest in at least one of the following: Beer, Linux, or hiking. I'm sure you qualify for the first two...(definately the second). Besides, who needs hiking when there's a crowd of drunk Linux enthusiasts!
Eric
I'm thinking of getting together with some people in mid-April 2001 to bike through France. Source book is France By Bike (pub by The Mountaineers), routes 5, 6, 7, and 8. Start in Paris (Versailles), out to the coast (Chinon), down to Burdeaux, across France to end up at Avignon. Time will be about four weeks, basically a segment a week.
Object: to start with easy biking, get drunk on good wine, visit cafes, cherchez les femmes (et pour les femmes de geek, les hommes), and end up at Cannes ready to enjoy the beach. The last week will be a killer, but if you want an easy ride, the first three segments are easy.
Laptops encouraged, but de rigeur stops at Cyber Cafes and Hacker Havens.
If interested, email affleckasch.w.spam@ghc.spam.org but forget the spam. Don't anticipating doing as much Linux as the Beirwanderleung, as we'll be busy chasing French women. Possible side train trip to Barcelona for a couple of days.
Will in Seattle
From the website:
Accommodation will be in Hotels, B&B, Youth Hostels or camp sites. You make your own booking at the place of your choice.
The Lake District is a beautiful place, and therefore is innundated with tourists during the summer. So many people go there that the (very narrow) roads are often jammed and accomodation is hard to come by. So if you're thinking of going, try to book your accomodation NOW (or as soon as possible).
HH
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
She's just dressing, goodbye windows, tired starlings.
Will they card you in the UK? They won't in the other European countries I've been to. Admittedly, I've mucked about mostly in eastern Europe, but they're much looser about drinking over there. Comes from not being founded by a bunch of fucking puritans!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
You know why American beer is like having sex in a canoe? Its fu*king close to water. HA!
hmmmmmmmm, beer - Homer Simpson
Pair up in threes. - Yogi Berra
Just a clarification, this year's Linuxbierwanderung is in England, not Germany as someone else posted earlier.
The beer hike is going to be based in the village of Coniston in the Lake District -- this is about halfway up the country on the Western border.
England is such a perfect place for this event. I hope to attend. We may even be able to catch some soccer -- The European Championships are this summer, and the national team may have a few qualifying matches at home while we are there...
Also, don't forget the tasty British beer!
See you there! (I hope)     :-)
------- "One of the joys of travel is visiting new towns and meeting new people." -- G. KHAN
Please find me the group of linux users who aren't too fat, too skinny, too cracked out on mountain dew, without problems with their ring fingers(hitting ls too much), not too busy trying to get their chip to 833Mhz instead of 800Mhz, not too busy trying to promote linux as an embedded solutions product when assembly code is 1000x more efficient(has anybody ported linux to the HC11 anyway?), not too busy to do anything else because they are always recompiling their kernel, and also somebody who doesn't talk in run-on sentences like me, and let me know if that group has a number of people above 0. Why do people like me have to take the blame for tech stocks going up and down also? Personally, I hate "dot-coms." Profit from the net will come for business-to-business, not this business-to-whoever-I-can-find. I'm an electrical and computer engineering major and so many times I see people missing the point of the internet for commerce(uh oh, set myself up for a flame here). Does anybody really care about www.watchmecrap.com? Of course not! But so many people are investing in this junk. First in the new economy we need a sense of reality about what Americans need and will buy. Engineers like myself NEED to make products that have SIMPLE user interfaces and don't require a lot of computer science to finish. A window manager on top of linux is just about as bad as windows on top of DOS. Granted, the linux version is much more stable, but can the AVERAGE user figure it out? The problem with Windows is that people don't understand how the registry works. However, the problem with linux is that people don't understand how anything works. We as a computing society need to provide the average user with an interface for linux that works as a GOOD link to the net, a GOOD gaming system, a GREAT application environment for word processing, spreadsheets, and other dumb stuff that I don't use. But anyway, I think that my original point is that many linux people should go out and get some sun because I'm sure that the majority of us are pale and white, the only tan we have is coming from a bunch of flourescent lighting. Yikes, what I just wrote is disorganized and not totally what i mean, but it has some good juicy bits of stuff to debate about. Have fun!
You can get a round trip ticket from the East Coast of the US for under $300 and it will cost you about $12 per night to stay at the youth hostels.
Nick
-- "It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park" - Jim Moran
maybe someone could wear a webcam, notebook & cell phone so the rest of us can participate virtually.
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
It depends on the British beer.
Remember, many British beers uses yeast that ferments at the top of the barrel, so this means the fermenting process can occur at around room temperature (20 degrees Celsius). As a result, you drink British beer at around wine cellar temperature (10-12 degrees Celsius).
German beer (which most of the world is familiar with) ferments at the bottom of the barrel, so this means the fermenting process has to work at nearly the freezing temperature of water (around 2-4 degrees Celsius). That's why you drink it at refrigerator temperatures, and American beers are that way because the American beer companies were all founded by people of German descent.
Try the St. Pauli Girl, Spaten or Beck's that is brewed in Germany for European consumption; they have to be served cold or it tastes terrible.
Raymond in Mountain View, CA
England?
Try Scotland or Wales, they have real mountains there.
Surely Snowdonia or Ben Nevis would be better suited, considering the Linux crowd has always faced an uphill battle, why not try a real challenge?
#8^P
Drunk hackers. Sound like the makins of windows to me.
Where are my GPFs? I WANT MY GPFS!!
This is what we need.
2A packets of bits in the net, 2A packets of bits.. do a checksum and /dev/null the run, 29 packets of bits on the net....
But bring shatterproof goggles, gas masks, and chemical resistant disposable outerwear.
Quaff a few pints, get sprayed with mace, get shot at by rubber bullets. Should be a real gas!
Special guests: The IMF and the World Bank
For a second there, I thought someone was hiking the price of beer. It's hard enough with gas prices as high as they are; leave the other precious brown fluid alone, ok?
Although Linux-branded beer would be an interesting idea. Maybe SuSE and their German compatriots should get cracking on it!
"If one is really a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without too much assistance" -- John Andrew Holmes