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Linux Beer Hike in Slovakia
palfreman writes "The Linux Beer Hike is less than a month away. This year it is in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, following last years success in County Clare, Ireland, and the 2001 event in Bouillon, Belgium. This year the dates are Saturday, August 9 to Sunday, August 17. There is also registration site and a members mailinglist. I'm driving from England, a 2400 mile round trip!"
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mmmmm beer, mmmmmmm linux
Phew... when I first read that headline I thought someone had raised the price of beer in Slovania. Not that I'm ever going to go to Slovania, but with globalization and stuff I worry about these things.
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Man, that's a heck of a long way to drive drunk. What is one to do to avoid sobriety?
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*Microsoft ploy to get all Linux users intoxicated and in one place*
I guess we know where that Robot Ballon is heading then...
Linux and beer, add a women and this is my ultimate fantasy. I would just settle for the beer, but all I have is linux :-(
Penguin Beer- Quite possibly the Best Beer in the World! ;-)
RMS is going to have a field day!
"...I'm driving from England, a 2400 mile round trip!"
Woah. You must have one helluva committed designated driver...
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He doesn't have to worry. After all, in Soviet Russia the jobs find you.
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But can anyone explain what this event is?
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Try moving to Sweden and you will get used to driving long distances. Guess we have to with only 21,6 people per sq km. (England have 247,4)
As soon as I saw this article, I popped into the local liquor shop and got me a six-pack of...
BEER!
Now it all makes sense.
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Linux beer hike? That's outrageous! Linux beer is supposed to always be free as in, er... Whatever! Isn't that what the GPL is about?
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Should be called The Linux LAGER Hike in Slovakia - no Beer there!
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Maybe I also should have included
:)
US: 30,6
Russia: 8,5
Guess they are doing a lot of driving in Russia...
All credit goes to Cascade Premium Lager, inspired by the title.
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To bad i couldn't find a joke to insert but ...
There's currently a true tick-plague going on in almost the whole of eastern europe. People you'd better get that vacination now since it takes about three weeks to kick in.
Pluspoint is the ticks concerned are not spreading the dreaded Lyme's Disease but merely Tickborne Encephalitis.
English Health Information here
Dutch Health Information here
free dom(inion) - free energy - free your mind - whee!
>>I'm driving from England, a 2400 mile round trip!
To mainland Europe? Do you have an amphibious assault vehicle? And if so, do you take it out often? And if so, are you on a quest for global domination? I just happen to be the greatest criminal mind of our time...
(with apologies to Strong Bad)
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"...I'm driving from England, a 2400 mile round trip!"
Gotta love that chunnel. BTW, when are we going to get one of those under the Atlantic?
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There is a way. :)
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What this proves is: ...
1. People using Linux make more money, and save more money as well.
2. I've never heard of a Windows Beer Hike - guess after spending money for Windoze, there's nothing left.
3. Linux users are sensible - they really meet real people, and do real things - not NetMeetings, Virtual tours
I'm planning to start something similar where I live. More later..
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If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
Ok, so how much does Linux Beer cost now in Slovakia? And why is the submitter of this story actually excited about the hike in Linux Beer prices, and why is he willing to drive 2400 miles just to pay more fore beer? Also, I can't see why the Linux Beer hike was so successfull in Ireland last year. I mean, I guess Guinness might be happy about it, since this means less competition for them... Well, at least Linux Beer will be cheap again after August 19th... Oh, one more question...Where can I buy Linux Beer in California?
we always knew that.
[on my fourth beer now]
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No we can't. Actually I never could, if that's the issue.
:)
Canadian
Population: 31 902 268
Area: 9 220 970 sq km
Conclusion: 3,5 people per sq km
So, maybe you should take a math course....or has a lot of canadians died since July 2002? Maybe Canada has grown?
Sweden
Population: 8 876 744
Area: 410 934 sq km
Conclusion: 21,6 people per sq km
Maybe we should do some probability calculations on generating 30 players from 32 millon contra 9 millon people, but I guess that does not change the fact that Canada is better than Sweden at playing hockey.
Facts from CIA, The World Fact Book.
I hope there lots of rest stops, Pilsener is fast acting compared to Irish Stout. Rather like using a dd to wipe a drive as compared to a linux mkfs.
dd can be more satisfying and assure that all the crap is gone like one good pint of Irish Stout, but a Linux format is real quick and dirty, just like 6 or 7 Pilseners.
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Slovakian beer
I hate those offtopic posts
But this is not one.
Yes, everyone, I realize there are ways across the ocean. Chunnel, ferry, etc.
There's a chance you haven't seen this and therefore didn't get the reference. ;)
(If you haven't seen it and you watch it and get hooked on it and spend lots of time clicking all over the entire site to find all the funny bits, it isn't my fault .
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-- Scott Meyer
*barf*
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It's amazing just how small Europe really is, when you get right down to it.
2400 miles would barely get me from Vancouver back to my parent's place in Toronto, let alone a round trip.
-deane
Sounds like what I do on a Monday when nobody else is around to drink with me. And I only have to drive 1.5 miles round trip to my favorite liquor store.
Oh man, a whole bunch of nerds out in the wild! They are supposed to stay behind their computer screens, not doing any physical labour at all!
You go in one and it flies for long distances very quickly.
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Hm, strange....didn't know that!
Hey guys. Have you ever been in Slovakia? :). The only thing i can tell-go there(if you can).
Im from Slovakia. And i can tell-we have one of the best beers in world. The first is Czech, but second is Slovak beer.Im from Banska Bystrica-there is beautiful nature. But i cannot attend on this "action"
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Too bad. I'll be in Slovakia the following week. I wouldn't mind going on a turistiku through the hory with a little Linux and, of course, pivo!
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it's beer bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! jiba!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
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unfortunately, i won't have the money to be able to make the trip and accomodations to go. i was hoping it would be closer to the czech border, but my girlfriend's parents live in moravia,cz, so maybe i can shack up with them for the week :o)
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I'm driving from England, a 2400 mile round trip! :-)
I always get a smile on my face when Europeans talk about driving far on a vacation. Or when they come here to the states and think everything is so close together. The look on their faces can be pretty funny when you tell them its a fifteen hour drive to Florida or a drive out west will take them a couple days. 2400 miles was a little more than half the distance we drove on a trip to Montana last year. It was nice though when I stayed in England a few years back that you could get to just about anywhere in 4 hours or so from London. That and being able to take a train there was even cooler. I'd trade that for all the cheese curd signs we saw in Wisconsin.
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Will I be required to wear socks with my sandals like the guy who took the pictures? When I think of what a geek is, I will, from now on, think of that picture.
I mean this in the nicest possible way of course.
Whats the deal here? Buddy is proud of the fact he'd drive 2400 miles for beer? Hmmm... I don't see why that is such a big deal. If there wasn't a frigging ocean between here and there, I'd be willing to drive 24,000 miles for that... on a bicycle with no seat!
Why, Hacker-Pschorr, of course.
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hahaha
When I drove to California and back from my home in TN, it was almost a 4000 mile round-trip. Now, this guy is driving from England, to Slovakia and is going to pass through how many countries to get there? How many languages? How many cultures?
Nothing insightful, but I find that just amazing that crossing half of the US is really and truly an amazing trek. I couldn't imagine driving Key West, FL -> Seattle, WA (or, hey, Alaska for that matter). (btw, mapquest: 3530 miles). We live in a fucking huge country.
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Spent two weeks this past June in Slovakia visiting relatives.
Some tips:
1) Pivo- beer, lager, pilsner is quite good and cheap (sorry not free). Prices varied from 10sk to 30sk a half liter (20 cents to 75 cents approx). I think Banska Bystrica may be the home of Zlaty Bazant (Golden Pheasant)- a very popular and very good beer. And for those whose don't drink beer, go for the Kofola, a cola that is pretty darn good, IMHO.
2) I did not hike the trails in the low Tatras, but the trails in the high Tatras were great, but challenging. The trails we hicked did not have distances- they listed times between points. I am convinced they used a mountain goat to get those times. YMMV.
3) Was nice to not see a McDonalds or Starbucks in two weeks, though I have no idea why people pass off Nescafe as coffee. Was seriously missing my cup of Peet's. The food in the restaurants was quite good and quite cheap, by US standards.
the european's are always complaining about things happening in the US, so i thought i'd point out that this always seems to happen in europe.. like there's nowhere to hike in the US or something..
Man, I'm driving to Burningman next month from Austin, Texas and it's 2200 miles one-way. You silly Europeans and your tiny countries. :)
32 hours one way in a truck with 2 women. Yes, it will be an interesting trip.
Any OS Developers/Followers that support the homeopathic use of good Beer/Ale are OK in my book. I don't see Redmond throwing very many Beer Bashes. I mean, which event would you rather attend? An event where the Beer flows like wine (huh?) and the atmosphere is in a fun loving pub or Brau Haus or an event at a far away Hotel/Convention Center with an overweight, scary and sweaty Steve Balmer marching around screaming incomprehensible buzz words about .NET.
Seems like an easy choice.
The thought of a drunken TUX the Penguin wandering around in hiking boots with a Beer Stein clutched in his flipper pinching all the women is scary though! Oh well after enough Beer anyone can see that happening.
I will be in Bratislava almost exactly 1 mth after this. I will hoist a few in honor of this event, even though I will not be able to attend.
The coastal line of Sweden is about
43 400 km. (inkluding marine islands)
Sweden has 221 800 islands (incl. islands in lakes)
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I thought the pilsner, not lager, was the most common "beer" in that region..
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Dont forget Borelia (even if it can be cured...)
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"The Linux Beer Swim"
Better book accomodation in advance. I wasnt there since 2 years now but it used to be a common problem there in Banska Bystrica.
I'm driving from England, a 2400 mile round trip!"
Some of which is underwater right? Sounds fun!
Judge by your online c.v. that your last proper job was ended in March 2002 and you are going to waste money going Slovakia? I know Europe gasoline is not cheap
But still - gasoline in Slovakia is cheaper than in neighboring countries, and food & beer cost next to nothing here. I am right now on vacation in Slovakia. GPRS roaming works fine. I ate a generous dinner with loads of excellent beer and paid less than $10. If you're out of money, it's the right place for vacation!
free as in beer?
I've found another job now. My online CV is out of date, that's all.
once the air is pumped out of the tunnel, and the superconducting maglev system is in place, we should be able to get that sucker up to near orbital speeds.
It's quite easy.
1. Don't refuel in the UK.
2. Check wether fuel is cheaper in France or Belgium before you leave.
3. If possible go via Luxembourg. The price is usually worth a detour (at least it always was for me)
4. Drive through Germany, once you've left the eastern border fuel prices are nice again
how about a linux wine hike in the beautiful Napa Valley? (o.k. I live in Sonoma - close enough)
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Just a quick word of advice on Slovakia beer. Banska Bystrica brews its own not-so-good beer called Urpin. When drinking beer in Slovakia make sure you go for the higher quality ones: Zlaty bazant (golden Pheasant), Smadny mnich (Thirsty Monk :-) or Kelt. I recommend beer on tap, but make sure you are in a decent pub/restaurant where they keep their "pipes" and equipment in order. I also recommend trying som dark beers - especially Smadny mnich or Zlaty bazant - they are rather sweet-ish with almost a coffee aftertaste. I like that a lot. If you want to try some other beer - go right ahaed (Martiner, Topvar, Gemer, Tatran), but beware of anything that is brewed in Bytca (popper, richtar) - unless of course you feel like getting a diarrhea (right there on the spot). For those not willing to try Slovakian beer, there is plenty of Chzech beers as well as western european ones (german, dutch). Heck ... I even saw Corona in my local store once.
Why would they hike up the cost of linux beer? mmmmmm open source goodness ...... (j\k)
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