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Linux Beer Wanderung

murger burger writes: "You have forgotten to report the linux beer wanderung, it has been taking place this week in Bouillon in Belgium. We just did a tour around the villages of Apach, Perl and Borg."

85 comments

  1. Most important question... by wrinkledshirt · · Score: 1

    Was it free?

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    Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...

    1. Re:Most important question... by ferkelparade · · Score: 1

      as in beer or as in speech?

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    2. Re:Most important question... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Could be both, linux and beer.

  2. oh yeah by jlemmerer · · Score: 1

    oh yeah, since i always use apache and perl in my job, finally i can also visit it.... cool thing

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    1. Re:oh yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Does it count if my grandfather visited those towns about 55 years ago?

  3. Where in Belgium? by FortKnox · · Score: 1

    Too bad that place in Belgium isn't named:
    Bouillabaisse

    Whoops... sorry for bringing that troll back to /.
    I couldn't resist.

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  4. oh no! webcams! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
  5. Re:DoS attack? by FortKnox · · Score: 1, Informative

    For those that don't know:
    You can redirect in your public key, and by clicking on the parent's sig link, you'll go to some nasty troll site.

    Taco, can we do something about this ASAP??

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    Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
  6. Re:DoS attack? by iceT · · Score: 2

    I dunno... server seems to be holding it's own...

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  7. eh? by Dirk+Stiletto · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen something like this since Scotchtoberfest. Silly children, there's no such thing as scotchtoberfest. What? There isn't? You used me! You used me skinner!!! Hehehe

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  8. Re:DoS attack? by kiwipeso · · Score: 1

    michael: How can we shut down all trans-atlantic Internet traffic in time for operation XP beta?

    timothy: We'd need to link to something international...

    jamie: Hey! I found a pr0n site in Belgium with lots of pictures, and Linux! And FREE PR0N!

    michael: http://www.thehun.net

    350 terabytes of slashdot effect later...

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  9. Re:DoS attack? by FortKnox · · Score: 1

    First of all, I logged in so I'd be taken seriously (plus I got 50 karma, I can burn some without duress).

    Second of all, nice switch, but I hope Taco will fix it anyway :-P

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  10. LBW2001 by Manaveru · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm still at the LBW right now, the event was very funny and avoided the hype going around Linux events.

    Just a bunch of geeks having fun together, sharing knowledge and drinking a lot of beers.

    Great party! I will definitively go to the next one.

    1. Re:LBW2001 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's the lamest damn thing I've ever heard. I condemn you for soiling the sanctity of beer consumption by discussing computer shit near it. Have you no shame? Your beer-drinking rights have hereby been revoked and you are condemned to a life of drinking Reb Bull or whatever liquid reminiscent of goat-piss it is containing caffeine (3+ years no caffeine here) the geeks are drinking these days.

    2. Re:LBW2001 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No caffeine?
      What, did you switch to speed already?

  11. I'd love to see by The_Messenger · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    if any new code has been checked in this week. I'm sure the comments are classic...

    /* This function takes an integer pointer
    * as an argument, and then it eats it. Yes,
    * it loves to eat those little yummy integers.
    */

    ...

    /* I forget what free() does, so I'm not
    * going to use it today. Note to self, fix at later date.
    */

    ...

    /* oh FUCK */

    ...

    /* So I says, I says, ya wanna get high? And so
    * she says, she says, like yeah. Wow.
    */

    ...

    /* Fuck Dmitry Skylalalralob! No, wait I mean Free Dmitry! * Fuck the DCAM... or is it teh DMAC? whatever
    */

    ...

    /* LOL, this will really "help" linux in teh next
    * networking benchmarks... if you netcode guys read this, fyuck you!
    * Drink the whole fucking case of ale */

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    I like to watch.

    1. Re:I'd love to see by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The way some of them talk, I think they do want to have sexual relations with Dmitri. Man-love with Crazy Ivan's seems to be the flavour of the week!

  12. Was that ESR? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    On the floor...sleeping under one of the tables with VA stock stuffed in his clothing for warmth...

    Funny article on LinuxPlanet regarding VA's proprietary "extensions" to Sourceforge:

    A week ago, VA Linux announced that it would sell a closed source, "Enterprise Edition" of its SourceForge software. Eric S. Raymond, a member of the VA Linux board of directors and a leading open source advocate, flew to the company's defense, saying that companies don't like open source software, so this was just a move to "throw a sop" to the "managerial underbrain."
    Who woulda' ever thunkit?

    AC

  13. Uhhh by mcc · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it just me, or does this seem like a REALLY bad idea??

    I mean.. crap. Hundreds of linux users setting up computers and then getting really drunk. I can just see this. People stumbling around drunk in the evening, absentmindedly tripping and falling into the spaghetti-cable mess between card tables.. and since everyone is drunk, no one can get them out.. so they remain in a tangled heap until the conference ends and they are discovered by maintenance crews. A quake game in which everyone is just kind of sliding around in slow motion, moving forward and then turning slowly (their crosshairs wobbling) to shoot at each other and missing. And then strafing into the lava by accident. A man stumbles in from drinking, collapses at his cardtable and wakes up the next morning with a throbbing headache in front of a screen covered in near-gibberish written sometime during the previous night that later turns out to be a threaded messaging cgi system written in perl. A weepy drunk guy, unable to deal with his repeatedly crashing X Server because he's not thinking clearly, goes and drinks to forget his troubles until he dies of alchohol poisoning. The SUSE team, sitting on the floor with the guy who wrote Kontour, halfconsiously swinging beer cans in the air and singing Filk in german. The guy who's been writing all those "BSD is dying" trolls standing and angrily yelling, his voice slurring, threatening physical violence against the one mac user who dared to show up for some reason. A bunch of british football hooligans who stagger around, challenge random people to FIFA 2001, lose, and then beat the victors up and smash their playstations. A LARGE HORDE OF PEOPLE GETTING DRUNK AND POSTING ON SLASHDOT EN MASSE.

    Umm.. damn. I wish i was in germany.

    1. Re:Uhhh by zonker · · Score: 0


      Yeah, a bunch of drunk coders...

      Sounds like the birth of Microsoft Windows... =)

  14. Re:And then there's the Compton Crackfest... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ha - but I am Ron Jeremy.

  15. Re:DoS attack? by quartz · · Score: 2

    Well, this only works with browsers that do not strictly obey the content-type header. The ones that do, like Konqueror, just display the HTML source (heh; vagina.rotten.com? now that's what I call an inspired name). So this isn't really a bug in Slashcode, this is only an exploit for stupid browsers that insist on rendering anything remotely resembling HTML.

  16. Towns by Trinity-Infinity · · Score: 1

    The towns of Apach(e), Perl, and Borg??

    What about trips to the towns of Java, Samba, and Ferengi?

    1. Re:Towns by windi · · Score: 1

      Well, Java isn't a town, it's an island in Indonesia.

    2. Re:Towns by Shadowin · · Score: 0

      How bout the towns of Midas, Delphi, Vulcan?

  17. The OS is free, but... by Halloween+Jack · · Score: 1
    I was writhing with envy at the thought of being able to pop off to Europe for a pub crawl, and it got me to thinking: absent of the transatlantic plane ticket, what's the cost for one person to do this sort of thing? (This would include transportation, accomodations, and of course beer.) There's a page listing accomodations, and registration is free, but what about the rest? (If anyone knows, just post your info in whatever currency you use.

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    1. Re:The OS is free, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No one cares about a bunch of Linux nuts drinking beer.

  18. Bad Mondorf by Bazman · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm going to request that Larry has 'Bad Mondorf' as an error message in the next release of perl. Can you imagine?

    % perl thing.pl
    Error compiling thing.pl: bad mondorf

    Go check the pics if you haven't a clue what I'm on about!

    Baz

  19. The /Beer Effect by The+Slashdolt · · Score: 2, Funny

    When I drink heavily, I can see Tux waving at me.

    Does this happen to anyone else...

    And Sometimes, when I get really drunk, uh, nevermind, I've said too much already.

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    1. Re:The /Beer Effect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes Mr. Madison. The penguin is stealing your girlfriend too

  20. Survival Dictionary by Col.+Panic · · Score: 4, Informative
    For those of us who don't speak German, here is a reference that might just come in handy:


    beer -- das Bier
    beer barrel -- das Bierfass
    beer barrel -- das Bierfass [obs.]
    beer brewed from wheat -- das Hefeweizen
    beer brewed from wheat -- das Weissbier
    beer mat -- der Bierdeckel
    beer mat -- der Bieruntersetzer
    beer mug -- der Bierkrug
    beer mugs [pl.] -- die Bierkruege [pl.]
    beer tent -- das Bierzelt
    bottled beer -- das Flaschenbier
    head (on beer) -- die Schaumkrone
    life isn't all beer and skittles -- das Leben besteht nicht nur aus Vergnuegen
    life isn't all beer and skittles -- das Leben ist kein endloses Vergnuegen
    Life isn't all beer and skittles. -- Das Leben besteht nicht nur aus Vergnuegen.
    a kept woman -- eine Maetresse
    bosom (woman) -- der Busen (Frau)
    buffalo woman -- die fette Frau
    business woman -- Geschaeftsfrau
    career woman -- Karrierefrau
    cleaning woman -- die Aufwartefrau
    cleaning woman [Brit.] -- die Zugehfrau
    foolish woman -- die Toerin
    gipsy woman -- die Zigeunerin
    kept woman -- die Maetresse
    married woman -- verheiratete Frau
    the new woman -- die Frau von heute
    to play the woman -- empfindlich sein
    vanward woman -- die Vorreiterin
    woman -- die Frau
    woman -- Frau
    toilet -- Abort
    toilet -- Abtritt
    toilet -- die Toilette
    toilet -- Toilette
    toilet -- WC
    toilet article -- Toilettenartikel
    toilet articles -- Toilettenartikeln
    toilet bag -- der Kulturbeutel
    toilet paper -- Klosettpapier
    toilet papers -- Toilettenpapiere
    toilet set -- Toilettengarnitur
    toilet sets -- Toilettengarnituren
    toilet soap -- Toilettenseife
    toilet soaps -- Toilettenseifen
    toilet table -- Toilettentisch
    toilet tables -- Toilettentische
    toilet tank -- der Spuelkasten (Toilette)

    That should about do it.

    1. Re:Survival Dictionary by ellem · · Score: 2

      DUd you forgot the most important one of all

      How much is the beer? -- Wieviel macht es das Flaschenbier?

      (That is probably so wrong...)

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    2. Re:Survival Dictionary by rmgrotkierii · · Score: 0

      So you mean I spent 3 years of taking german classes I didn't need? :-\ Shoulda told me earlier. Hehe

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    3. Re:Survival Dictionary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      what's the german for "karmawhore"?

    4. Re:Survival Dictionary by nick-less · · Score: 1

      what's the german for "karmawhore"?

      straight translated it would be "karmahure", but I would rather say "karmaschlampe" or "karmaluder" ;-)

    5. Re:Survival Dictionary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      To bad the useability of this is rather limitted, as Bouillon is in the French speaking part of the world...

    6. Re:Survival Dictionary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You just discover babelfish? I don't speak much german, but that was some kind of terrible. Thank god Engrish is second most speaked language en Germany.

    7. Re:Survival Dictionary by peccary · · Score: 2

      Gee, too bad German's not the most popular language in Bouillon, ever since the last 50 years or so. Try French, you'll get a lot farther. English is your next best bet. You'll find people who speak Flemish, but they mayn't be polite.

  21. Re:YOU ARE CORRECT SIR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Works in the Opera browser too.

  22. Well, well... by Flagbrew · · Score: 1

    I hope they are all having fun drinking their Linux Lager, Penguin Porter, and, of course, Slashdot Stout while I am working. ;)

    1. Re:Well, well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Everybody is a little bit dumber for reading your post.

  23. How do I get ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    ... the free beer through my internet connection?

    Did I miss an earlier /. story?

  24. Oh no, toilet humor by twitter · · Score: 1
    toilet -- Abort

    Bad Humor Alert, Abort, Abort!

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  25. WTF is that "BSD is dying" troll? by kiwipeso · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'll take you on anytime, anywhere?
    BTW, I play unreal tournament better when I'm pissed on stoli than when I'm sober.

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  26. Is this legal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Is michael old enough to post a story about beer? He may be using a fake id for this.

  27. Re:Crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You forgot Beowulf

  28. I went there - horrible experience by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    since drinking alcohol in belgium is legal from around the age of 12-14, we were there with 200 drunk 15year old geeks in boullion castle when suddenly hundreds of french speaking belgian paedophiles appeared on the walls and jumped towards us and ripped of our clothes and ...

  29. Any Tux brand /root beer? by WyldOne · · Score: 1

    nuff said ;)

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  30. I speak German, that dictionary sucks? by kiwipeso · · Score: 1

    You forgot ficken: to fuck.
    No, wait? you're linux nerds, you'll never use it?

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    1. Re:I speak German, that dictionary sucks? by Pope+Slackman · · Score: 2

      No, wait? you're linux nerds, you'll never use it?

      Sure they will.

      C-X C-S

  31. Belgium by Hedgehog · · Score: 1

    This is the way we live in Belgium. First, we use our brains for good and invent a new standard for AES, then, we kill our brains for good by consuming large quantities of alcohol. Well, I know I did.

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    1. Re:Belgium by JimPooley · · Score: 1

      You mind your language!

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  32. drunk programmers ... by zangdesign · · Score: 1

    So a bunch of drunk geeks in a quonset hut throw a beer bash ...

    I can't wait to see the women.

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  33. Belgian Beer by manon · · Score: 0

    It's clear we missed something. Beermeeting and I wasn't informed. Nice!
    Anyway, for all of us that didn't go to that Linux Beerfest, here is my list of Belgian Beer. Enjoy!

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  34. Just an honest question. by mindstrm · · Score: 2

    I thought the actual name was the 'linuxbeerwanderung'.. one word... not the 'linux beer wanderung'. No?

    1. Re:Just an honest question. by jooniqzb1tch · · Score: 1

      I think you're right. alltho I guess using three words would be pretty much ok also.

  35. Imashine by iforgotmyfirstlogon · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Imashhin a Beowufff clushter of theeezzzsh..."

    - Freed

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  36. Can you imagine...... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A Beowolf cluster of Linux Beer fests? Or would that just be a college campus? .

    ~Bass

    1. Re:Can you imagine...... by mach-5 · · Score: 1

      Only at an engineering school...like MIT.

  37. Belgian beer crash course by Nick+Number · · Score: 2, Informative

    Belgium is home to several hundred styles of beer. Many use wild yeasts and have very unique tastes. Good descriptions can be found on the website of Michael Jackson (the British one).

    Food Network recently had a Beer Unwrapped special which showcased Belgian beers and dishes cooked with them. It was pretty good...for something hosted by Gordon Elliott.

    Chimay and Orval are two brands which can be found in most parts of the US. Corsendonk is one of my favorites, but it's harder to find.

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    1. Re:Belgian beer crash course by Xanthos28 · · Score: 1

      And alot of Belgian beer is great for really wildly raging hangovers.

      mmmmm....chimay.....

    2. Re:Belgian beer crash course by iceburn · · Score: 1

      Man what I wouldn't do for a glass of Chimay blue label right now...

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  38. offtopic (just playing with slashcode) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    hi
    i guess i need some text here to get past the lameness filter...

  39. Where'd all those drunk penguins come from? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Bouillon?

  40. My bad, those are the evil towns by Shadowin · · Score: 0

    The cool towns would be Interbase, Kylix, Romula!

  41. What happen in Belgium? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Too bad that place in Belgium isn't named Bouillabaisse

    Know why not? All your Bouillabaisse are belong to U.S.

  42. Hey.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Where are the chicks?

  43. Go to the castle! by peccary · · Score: 2

    Up on the hills to the east, it's pretty cool. Otherwise, there's not much to do in Bouillon. It's a washed-up spa town for has-beens. But the castle is cool, and the youth hostel is nicer than average.