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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."
Maybe you didn't understand - shot also means "to drink some strong alcohol at once" ;-)
For heaven's sake read the article. They're in Doolin, not Dublin. Dublin is a big modern bustling city. Doolin is about as small, peaceful and laid back a place as you can get.
Oh, yes, and the 'trouble' is in Northern Ireland, a long way away.
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.
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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I see loads of such stupid comments marked as "insightful".
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You obviously forget Belgian beer, but also Croatian beer, Northern French beer *and* Swiss beer.
Here in Bern, one can drink the Schwarzbier in the Tramdepot. It is brewed in its caves in May and one can observe a peak in tourists frequentation at this very moment.
So, forget your stupid regionalism-based comments and just consider it a matter of taste
Red or Black -> Ireland
Blond or amber -> England or Germany
Artisanal -> Switzerland or Croatia
Fruity or multiple-fermented -> Belgium or Northern France
The best being to take a little of each from time to time.
Smile, don't click...
specialy marked or not, they taste alot better than the bud and miller yankee water brews.
Every American beer drinker I've met regards Bud and Miller beer as piss-water. I don't know who drinks it, but I feel ashamed when people consider Bud and Miller as 'American' beers (But given their popularity, I can see why you think so).
America has plenty of good beer, but most of it is only available in a small area; and is rarely shipped outside of the country.
I'm only familiar with the West Coast, but I can tell you that the Seattle, Portland and San Francisco areas have some fine beers which rival the best of Europe.
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