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Linuxbierwanderung Among The Heather
yalla writes: "After being in Pottenstein, Coniston and Bouillon, the Linuxbierwanderung is taking Place in Doolin, Ireland. As every year, we're holding lectures, take a lot of hikes and obvisiously enjoy the local beer. This time we even got our own beer: The 'Black Tux' (Stout), 'Reddish Brown Beer' (Red Ale) and the 'Holy Penguin Pee' (which is a Lager). The beer was sponsored by the Irish Linux User Group. Our network setup is sort of weird, like last year; we connected the camping-site via wireless LAN and directional antennas with 'The Hall,' the local community center, which is the central gathering place for all activities."
Every time the kernel panics, take a shot.
Recompiling the kernel while under the influence of Guiness isn't recommended either.
Hiking and beer drinking....
Ireland is thee place for beer drinking, it's
not a passtime it's a way of life.
http://tinyurl.com/3t236
Several questions:
1. Are the beer recipes open-source?
2. Is the alternate name for a six-pack a beowulf cluster?
3. Why hasn't someone started a global beer database complete with comments and opinions posted by beer drinkers all over the world? (Brits, with their taste for warm flat beer get their comments marked specially...)
Sounds like the parties we have in my basement. But I live in the USA. I dont think the beer is as good.
against linux philosophy, coz it is free as in speech, not as in beer, or are we having a new open source defination ;-)
:-) yipee
Free as in just free, forget the no beer crap
What next now free lunch
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What sort of fetish do you guys have there?
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
After seeing this I'm really hoping that NO ONE will be drinking while carrying their laptop WHILE hiking! With two hands off your beer you might spill it! You wouldn't want to waste perfectly good 'Holy Penguin Pee' now would you? Plus there's also the risk that in your drunken stagger through the woods you might drop your laptop. So remember, when drinking, keep your laptop as far away as possible and keep your beer in a closeable container (like a water bottle, that may take away from the taste of the beer though.)
How appropriate that this should be held in Doolin. Doolin sits below The Burren, a huge barren stretch of limestone pavement, the fossilised product of the toil of millions of tiny creatures which provide no basis or encouragement for anything to grow, leading to a picturesque yet barren landscape attracting many tourists and little real work. A bit like Linux really, there are even large cracks to fall in between the solid bits. ;]
I just /pub
$> cd
$> more beer
Where are the lads that fought with me when open source was made
Oh Gra Mo Criodh, I long to see the boys of the Linux Brigade.
actually I am happy to see you, however that is in fact a banana in my pocket.
just to mention my company's contribution, we supplied the isdn line for the first three or four days. eircom, irelands most wonderful phone company, was not able to make the isdn line work for the doolin activities center. so the internet connection was achieved by bouncing a signal to a youth hostel further into doolin and then from there up to my boss's office over his garage. the wireless gear and seup were handled by several people including the irish wan group.
our company is doolin technologies. we do linux application development and in our own odd way are responsible for about half a million people using linux in ireland each week. if you ever visit (or live in) ireland and get a mobile phone or long distance top-up code from an alphyra (formerly itg) credit card terminal, you've just used linux. and perl and mysql actually.
if anyone is in ireland up to this saturday, get down to doolin. it's great fun down there. and if you're an annoyed eircom customer, might i recommend the odtr as a place you might be able to direct your complaint.
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Come on folks - for those of us that can't make it, how about letting us see how you are all getting on. And the web sites could do with updating too.
This is the same as this story: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/25/023723 8&mode=thread&tid=162
A simple search would have revealed the story.
Will work for bandwidth!
http://www.sfu.ca/~hjohnson/osxnisnfs.html
This reminds me of the Black Plague spreading throughout Europe and killing off good computer science. We need to propagate BSD, not some unstable non-innovative rehash of BSD.
For Ireland it would be amongst the Shamrocks, or perhaps the bogs ;-)
Bad analogies are like waxing a monkey with a rainbow.
What you say?
There's nothing like a network connection to the rest of the world to make a real camping experience!
stealing ThinkGeek's idea. :)
I read about these kind of events a lot on slashdot, AFTER they already started, it's too late to arrange a plane-ticket for me now.
What are good sites where you can see what coming events are taking place?
That brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "almighty piss up"
Not all irish people are alcholic drunks ok you racist assholes.
Hey american joe can i go to your users group and taste test some fattening hotdogs and twinkies?
these nuts!!!
If you're a surfer you'll be happy to know that there are some great spots around Doolin and the surfs on the way so bring your stick too (waters about 15 degrees so you'll need a wettie).
You should be able to rent gear if you're stuck though. Try Lahinch.
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Is it wise for these cities to have similar names considering the approximate pronounciation they use down there?
DocSnyder.
Linuxbierwanderung would be a wonderful name for a rock band.
Having just cycled through the area two months ago, I can say the woody patches are fairly sparse, but you are likely to have your laptop blown off a 300 foot high cliff into the ocean if you unfold it by the Cliffs of Moher.
Heres a web cam from Lahinch, just up the road from Doolin to give you a feel for the place.
http://www.magicosoftware.net/surf/lahinch.asp
I do feel a bit cheated - my two week tour of Ireland and England was really badly timed. I was too early for Linuxbierwanderung and too late for the Great British Beer Festival held in London.
However, I did manage to visit Doolin while in Ireland. A really nice small village, with lots of fields around it and nice pubs, too. Good quality hostels, as well. And the starry skies you get on a cloudless night are pretty amazing, as there's no light pollution for miles around.
Didn't find an internet café, though.
Were I a bit older I'd have attended. *sigh* one year to go...
...But it doesn't help matters that a lot of the groups who seek resolution through violence have received funding, training and arms from supporters in other countries. Libya and the USA to mention a couple for starters.
Dublin Guinness isn't brewed from the Liffey at all, upstream or otherwise. The water comes from St James' Well, Co. Kildare.
We are already a bit of a society, although quite dysfunctional (hello goatse.cx-posting AC). Isn't it about time we had a section with announcements about major conventions and events like Linux Bierwanderung and Geek Cruises?
Granted, it could be percieved to be a bit like free promotion, but isn't Slashdot all about serving the Nerd community with what we need?
At least, someone could make a page, and have a slashbox created.
Stop the brainwash
This time we even got our own beer: The 'Black Tux' (Stout), 'Reddish Brown Beer' (Red Ale) and the 'Holy Penguin Pee' (which is a Lager).
What? No pilsner? What kind of "beer drinkers" are you, any way?
Except that this leads to political issues. Are you referring to the island of Ireland or the political entity which excludes six of the nine counties of Ulster?
This may sound ultra-pedantic but, as I suspect you know, lotsa people would get really hot under the collar if you suggest that the Republic of Ireland is anything greater than 26 counties (yes, I do live there!)
Alison
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein
As an avid player of Irish dance music and a Linux user, this is particularly interesting to me. Doolin is (has been?) known for its thriving traditional music scene, though the word's been out for a while now... Anyway I'm going back there in late October, but this Linux shindig will be over by then :(
One other thing: Doolin is just up the road from Ennis, which had a project back in the late 90's to wire the whole town for broadband, IIRC. Don't really know how it turned out.
Read my keyboard review.
Seriously, I saw one down the road from McDermott's. Also, some one should stick a fada over the E, as eire means burden without it. :)
Brooke
As I said in my post, I was referring to the country and not the island.
My source of information as to the official name of the country is the very constitution that you provided a link to - article 4 says that
So, unless there is such a significant difference between a country and a state as to affect the argument we are having (and I am not aware of such a difference), then the official english-language name of the country is Ireland and not The Republic of Ireland. Indeed, www.dictionary.com defines a country as "a nation or state"!
You may remember that the linkage between the country and the island was dropped by referendum passed by something like 95% of the voters of the country.
So, the official name of both the island and the state whose territory is (now) a subset of the island plus some of it's offshore islands is Ireland. Confusing? - yes! But true.