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Linux Beer Hike 2000

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-hackers-hike? dept.

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 ;)

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  1. Re:Damn! by nstrug · · Score: 4
    So what? The UK has a staggered drinking age: 5 (sic) in private, 16 in a pub or restaurant with a meal (limited to beer, cider and wine) and 18 to buy anything you want. You can drink in public too provided you're over 5 and someone else has done the buying if you're under 18 - it's perfectly OK to take beers or bottles of wine on a picnic. But it's all pretty academic as no-one ever checks IDs anyway - they're just not hung up on it in the way that Americans are. I used to go to the pub for a couple of quiet pints and a game of pool with my dad when I was 15.

    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

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  2. WebCast? by ch-chuck · · Score: 4

    maybe someone could wear a webcam, notebook & cell phone so the rest of us can participate virtually.

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  3. Re:England...?! by RayChuang · · Score: 4

    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.

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  4. Obviously not much of a hike then... by stx23 · · Score: 4

    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

  5. mmm.. beer by ancient-mariner · · Score: 4

    Drunk hackers. Sound like the makins of windows to me.

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  6. *BSD Cannabis Hike by mechtoad · · Score: 5

    This is what we need.


  7. Songs by Signal+11 · · Score: 5

    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....

  8. Beer hike in Washington DC April 16,17,18 by Error+Spelling · · Score: 5
    Come one, come all!!

    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

  9. That's a relief :) by / · · Score: 5

    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!

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