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Linux Beer Hike Goes to Ireland
The Linux Beer Hike Hits Ireland
Doolin, Ireland -- 23 July 2002 -- "Linuxbierwanderung," (also known as The Linux Beer Hike - LBW for short) will take place this year in the village of Doolin, August 24-31, 2002, on the west coast of Ireland. Now in its fourth year, LBW has travelled to Bavaria in Germany, the Lake District in England and the Ardennes in Belgium.
Upwards of 100 people have attended LBWs in the past, and even with above average rainfall in Ireland this year, no one is disheartened. The Russell Community Centre located near the Cliffs of Moher, has been confirmed as the base of operations for the event and where the weather is lacking, the fast connectivity and interplay of technological ideas (not to mention the "special recipe" brew being cooked up to commemorate the occasion) should more than compensate.
Funded by a small voluntary donation from each hiker, The Linux Beer Hike is a week-long, international summer event in which Linux users from around the world get together, exchange ideas, hack Linux, drink beer, take in a little local scenery and have a lot of fun. It is a great way for Linux users who correspond all year long via e-mail, to meet one another face-to-face. It is also a chance to work on Linux far into the night, compute with abandon, and conceive of the utterly cool. "It's the ultimate Linux users holiday" says Willem Konynenberg, a former organiser.
Planned events:
* technical seminars
* caving, golf, touring local castles and other sights
* having a pint in the local pub and listening to traditional Irish music
There is an active mailing list and information on how to join The Linux Beer Hike can be found on the main web page: http://www.lbw2002.draiocht.net.
Will the beer be free?
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
But the craic's great and the pubs are fine :-))
Irish music, pints, 24 hours a day.
Who has time for Linux?
668: Neighbour of the Beast
LBW is a way you can get out. Basically its when you put your leg in the way of the stumps (aka wicket) to protect from a ball you could not hit. Debates have spanned years on whether this is an appropriate rule, and if it can ever be accurately ruled upon.
Funny thing is, I am Australian, been to an LBW (Linux Beer Hike), but never noticed the correlation to the cricketing LBW...weird.
You: I have to go to a conference on dynamic fluid-driven next generation systems. Its called the "LBW" which means "Leading Business through Webvolution".
Boss: What benefits will we see ?
You: Our servers will run quicker (note to self: disable SMP on the servers before I go), we'll be better prepared for Webservices (note to self: install the Apache Webservices stuff, ask someone in the pub which one to use). And of course we will be seen as leaders within this technical and business community
Boss: If its business why are you going ?
You: Remember at my last appraisal where you said I didn't understand the business drivers, I've learnt from your behaviour (Note: Vendor paid for Golf days) and think this would help me develop as you wanted me to.
Boss: How much is it
You: I've got a complimentary ticket, I just need the expenses signed off (Note: Can I pay for the admin in beer?)
Boss: How come its compilmentary ?
You: Because of the articles I've been writing on Webvolution (Note: Slashdot log counts doesn't it?)
Boss: Oh, wow, I'll set a limit of (Note to self from Boss: Umm I'd blow 2k in a week, so..) £500.
You: (Note to self: Ryanair, car hire, hotels, beer.. thats too little) Sure and I'll book the hotel via the department (Note: Therefore it will be on the massive budget sheet with all of your jollies)
But remember to buy some naff toys and claim they are vendor gifts.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
Pictures from all previous (and the next, when it is completed) are here.
There once was a time in my life that after going to the pub I wouldn't be coding, but going to the strippers with the rest of the boys.
You lot have corrupted me.
the west coast of Ireland to enjoy the fast bandwidth
Huh? The community centre has a single basic rate ISDN line, so max they'll have a 128kbps connection to the outside world. DSL? Not anytime soon. The LBW isn't about bandwidth, its about the beer, the exercise, and Linux.
But assuming they install some 10/100 hubs in the centre, then locally they'll have a nice little LAN party.
the AC
Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
My guess is the center got involved in the Information Town thing in Ennis or something similar. I can't imagine it only has a Hi-Speed connection and it certainly doesn't have I-Stream in that part of the country!
All I can say is I'm there! Doolin (and the surrounding area) is absolutely beautiful and a fabulous place to drink copious amounts of beer! Especially when you can find lots of great local (and less local) musicians playing in the pubs every night. If anyone out there would like to go to an LBW aswell as seeing some of the famed Irish hospitality and lifestyle then this is the trip for you! Hope I see you all there!
Never underestimate the dark side of the Source
Never thought I'd see an event that combined 4 of my interests like that: Linux, beer, hiking and Ireland.
-Karl
What happens on the footy trip stays on the footy trip. Same applies for buck's nights and any other "I'm away from the wife for a week" trips.
Breaking this rule results in no further trip away invites.
No such thing as pints of 'local ale' in Ireland - a) because people don't drink ale there, mainly stout, and b) because there are pretty much no small breweries or 'brew pubs'. With very few exceptions, all the beer you'll find is brewed in Dublin or Cork.
Pints of local ale are drunk in England.
a fantastic place. as for accommodation, the first time i camped (windy and wet!), and the second stayed at the Rainbow Hostel, very friendly, and no problem with coming back in at god knows what hour of the morning!
i can't say i saw anything resembling a computer when i was there though, so i can't speak for the bandwidth!
Ahh...the Great British Beer Festival is on from August 6th to 10th, and then we have this.
August is a fine month...
Igor Presnyakov stole my hat
#!/usr/local/bin/python
./drunk.py
import time
def BEER(Pinths, sharttime, endshime):
return "DRUNK"
if __name__ == "__main__":
print BEER(12,time.time()-(60*60), time.time())
%
DRUNK
%
Wow my Program ish sho C00l! It tellsh me shwen imsh drushk
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
from the Guardian (UK) newspaper style guide:
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World Series
(baseball) got its name from the New York World, the newspaper that originally sponsored it; so to use it as an example of American arrogance is as inaccurate as it is tedious
http://www.guardian.co.uk/styleguide/page/0,581
Anyone coming the beer hike better realise this. The only saving grace as far as visitors are concerned is there are several "free" ISPs, i.e. no subscription, you just pay for the phone call.
IMHO the nicest of the three is Murphys.
Guinness isn't particularly great and is made by an international drinks conglomerate who have a nearly total monopoly on the Irish market. It is for this reason that every pub serves the same shit brands for too much money. You won't even see Beamish or Murphys on sale unless you're close to Cork.
Just for any visitors. Doolin is also in the biggest caving region in Ireland.
The caves are mainly horizontal so SRT isn't necessary.
As usual local knowledge is necessary. For that http://www.ucd.ie/~caving or the Speleological Union of Ireland website is worth visiting.
If your a cave diver 200m off Doolin peir is some of the best sea cave diving in the British isles, or so I hear.
Enjoy McGann's and O'Connor's.
Maybe I can get some apple beer in Belgium, they already make some tasty cherry beer.
And raspberry beer, peach beer, banana beer, blackcurrant beer, ...
I'm sure there are more that I don't know of.
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I'd say they were conned about the density of pubs too. It's a while since I've been to Doolin but I remember there being two (maybe three). Still, they make up for it in quality. One of my best memories is of sitting in O'Connell's watching the finals of the All Ireland Hurling Championship (it's a sport in which you club each other to death with wooden sticks) which County Clare won (Doolin is in County Clare).
All I want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that too much to ask ~~ Randall Munroe
Popular misconception: The British drink their beer warm.
It's not warm in the normal "warm water" sense of the word merely less cold than beer which is deliberately chilled using artifical refrigeration.
Most beers are brewed to completion at the brewery, then pasteurised to remove all the bugs and then chilled so they don't go bad and distributed. British "real ale" is shipped before the brewing process has been completed and it is finished off in the beer cellar of the pub - you can't chill beer that is still brewing. Thus, the taste of a pint of beer in England depends almost as much on the skill of the pub owner as it does on the brand of beer.
Cynics might claim that you don't need to chill British beer because it tastes good enough not to have to anaesthetise your taste buds.
All I want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that too much to ask ~~ Randall Munroe
Is it really a good idea to have Linux contributions coming from exhausted, sleep deprived, beer addled coders?
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Same thing with "Petrified Nathalie Portman". I did not even know who "Nathalie Portman" was. (No Star Wars fan, sorry) I still don't get the Hot Grits stuff and why what exactly GoatSex has to to with www.goatse.cx (except for sounding the same). There are great many traditions here on slashdot, and traditions should be perpetuated, so that the future generations of Slashdot readers will have the trill to accidentally click on a goatse.cx link (especially at work...which happened to me.)
It's all part of the fun...so get your whining somewhere else, okay?
Oh, to stay on topic: anyone ever installed Linux after drinking 2 liters of beer? Very funny, especially the hangover the next day because you lost all your partitions ;-)
Too bad the Linux Beer Hike isn't coming to Seattle, or I could serve up some homebrew Doppelbock Beer. At least the label is appropriate.
http://www.nwlink.com/~kaf/doppelbock_small.jpg
That sounds like bollocks, pal. Having lived both in Ireland and the US, I know that in Ireland nobody gives a damn what religion you happen to have, if any. Not so in the US - somebody always seems to be touting their particular brand of Trvth(tm) .....
Alison
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein
A simular type of group (beer, fun and exercise) is the Hash House Harriers. They call themselves "a drinking club with a running problem." They can be found in just about every city worldwide and always welcome visitors. A good introduction can be found at half mind. I've always been able to find a hash in any city I go to and it beats going back to the hotel and atching CNN.
Wha'?? Beer is served icy-cold. If you're not happy with that, you can even get Guinness extra-cold on tap. Warm beer tends to remind me of British local ales (which are excellent, BTW).
bunch of savages
Whatever .. - ever been to Ireland or do you just get your info from Quiet Man re-runs?
That's Murphy's, you moron! Jesus ....
Alison
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein
Aon - one
Dó - two
Trí - three
Ceathar - four
Cúig - five
Sé - six
Seacht - seven
Naoí - nine
Deich - ten
If you're ordering more than ten - yee-harr! :-) Note that you use a different terms for counting people in Irish.
BTW - there's Linux in the Gaeltacht. I know of the Gaeilge GNU/Linux localisation project. Also, there's this company, which I helped set up. They produce Linux-based network devices for small business. Some of the source-code comments are in Irish ... 8-)
Alison
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein
Hate to say it, but Doolin is a fucking hole.
It's basically just a long road with some shops, guest houses and two or three pubs, and that's it, and the only reason it exists is as a place to stay for people who want to visit the Cliffs of Moher. Oh, and the tapwater is brown. Bring cash, cause there isn't an ATM for a couple of miles.
Have fun (snicker).
I've been to Doolin (years ago) and can honestly say say it was one of the coolest weekends of my life. [If you've ever seen the movie Ryan's Daughter, it was filned there.]
Be sure to take the morning boat across to the small island of Inishsheer (phonetically - can't remember the Irish spelling). If you're lucky, dolphins will swim alongside the boat. Check out the beach - you'd swear it was right out of a caribbean travel catalogue (the Gulf Stream ends at Ireland - there are actually Palm trees in some parts!). Right near it is an ancient church sunk into th hill. There was also a small cottage/restaurant flying a pirate flag. Totally organic. Fish caught hours before. Only a little salt added. Incredible. How food used to taste, I guess.
Two main pubs in town. O'Conner's and Murphy's. The former has the better food, and the latter had better music. Can't really go wrong - so check them both out!
The music. Pubs have "musicians' corner" where you can sit and start playing if you have talent. Whoever shows up: guitar, singer, fiddle - whatever. They may never have met, but they all know common songs and add their own twists to it. Sometime the whole whole pub will just stop talking and listen - knowing that that combination will never happen again. Magic.
Crawling back to my B&B, I looked to my right:
A full moon was silhouetting a castle.
Fscking incredible.
Rory.
Beta only seems to work for Google. Such a shame.
I am an American and at age four cricket was the first game I learned to play.
Don't you know? All generalizations are false.
And I find baseball as equally boring as soccer. I prefer to watch events involving women scantily dressed. Not a bunch of men running around on a field chasing a ball. However playing sports like cricket, baseball, or whatever can all be fun.