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."

Comments

Linux Drinking Game

[Anonymous Coward]

Every time the kernel panics, take a shot.

Recompiling the kernel while under the influence of Guiness isn't recommended either.

Re:Linux Drinking Game

[Anonymous Coward]

Is that a drinking game, or a new way of getting sober? :) Now if you were talking about Windows and blue screens..

Re:Linux Drinking Game

[phaxkolumbo]

Nahh, too dry.

How about this: Everytime there's a new project about mp3/ogg-playlist-management in sourceforge, take a shot.

Re:Linux Drinking Game

[Libor Vanek]

Maybe you didn't understand - shot also means "to drink some strong alcohol at once" ;-)

Re:Linux Drinking Game

[Simon Brooke]

They're in Dublin (Eire, or Southern Ireland) The "trouble" is in Northern Ireland.

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.

Re:Linux Drinking Game

[Draoi]

They're in Dublin (Eire, or Southern Ireland)

They're in Doolin, as someone has already pointed out. The exact opposite side of the country.

And, BTW, Southern Ireland refers to Cork, Kerry, etc. I suspect you mean the Republic of Ireland, which is the official name of this country. You only use Éire if you're speaking in Irish, or if you're an American waxing lyrical about the 'Old Country'. Article 4 of The Constitution clearly shows this.

Mod accordingly ... :-/

Re:Linux Drinking Game

[armb]

> You only use Éire if you're speaking in Irish, or if you're an American waxing lyrical about the 'Old Country'. Article 4 of The Constitution clearly shows this.

The preamble of the same constitution includes the phrase "We, the people of Éire", so it clearly _can_ be used in official contexts even when speaking English. But it probably helps to be an Irish speaker if you don't want to sound like an American waxing lyrical about the 'Old Country', and Republic of Ireland is probably clearer to more readers.

Free as in beer!?

[Anonymous Coward]

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...)

Re:Free as in beer!?

[Anonymous Coward]

My favorite comercial beers are english, Boddingtons, Watneys, Samuel Smiths, Bass Ale.

specialy marked or not, they taste alot better than the
bud and miller yankee water brews.

Re:Free as in beer!?

[ynohoo]

NeonSpirit wrote:
good beer can be found in America

I spent a few years in Oregon, and good microbrews are available all over the Pacific Northwest. Upon returning to England I was delighted to find some Rogue (from Oregon) ales available in my local store!

Anonymous Coward wrote:
Boddingtons, Watneys, Samuel Smiths, Bass Ale

while these might be wussey enough for yankee tastebuds, for real flavour I'd recommend Fuller's "London Pride", Burton Ale, Badger Ale, Shepherd's Neame "Bishop's Finger" (dont ask where it's been), Old Specled Hen...(insert your favourite ale here).

Over in Ireland local brews are a very rare treat, most places you're best making do with Guinness, which is treated with the esteemed respect rightly it deserves.

Re:Free as in beer!?

[stefanlasiewski]

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.

Re:Free as in beer!?

[JoeBuck]

It's not just the US that has the problem of poor-quality mass-market beers and much better lesser-known beers. All the wonderful beers that come out of Belgium, and the one that gets the most advertising push seems to be Stella Artois, which is almost as crappy as Miller. Worse, Stella's owner is trying to push Stella in the US as a super-premium beer and charge high prices, when they also own Leffe, which puts out some great brew. I guess they figured that what worked for the very mediocre Heineken could work for them.

Some US craft brews are now getting wider distribution. The very decent Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is available in most parts of the country, for example. Of the nationals, Sam Adams is best, though I like many of the west coast microbrews better.

There's a very good Quebec-based craft brewer, Unibroue, that makes wonderful Belgian-style beers that I wouldn't be embarrassed to serve a Belgian (and yes, I've made several trips to Belgium and sampled many beers), and you can actually get them in Europe, it seems. Maudite and La Fin du Monde are both great and are easist to find.

isnt giving beer.....

[tanveer1979]

against linux philosophy, coz it is free as in speech, not as in beer, or are we having a new open source defination ;-)
Free as in just free, forget the no beer crap

What next now free lunch :-) yipee

Re:isnt giving beer.....

[Yokaze]

Beer is free as in speech.
Here is the source

To compile beer, you don't even need a computer, only household equipment.

Under barren lands. How appropriate for Linux.

[freddled]

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. ;]

network setup...

[kevin lyda]

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.

Re:network setup...

[kevin lyda]

just to reply to myself, i was getting distracted by stuff as i typed. so that's why i forgot to mention lots of hard work by liam and others. this is particularly important since i shot liam in the eye with a nerf gun! sorry!

and a few irish linux users were there though i hope more will go. for those linux users in ireland who havn't been paying attention, this is your user's group.

Where are these kinds of events anounced?,

[Sarin]

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?

terrorists funded from outside

[fantomas]

...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.

New slashdot section : Social!

[Jeppe Salvesen]

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.

[OT] Re:Linux Drinking Game

[Draoi]

Actually, the official English-language name of the country is Ireland.

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!)