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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!"
Penguin Beer- Quite possibly the Best Beer in the World! ;-)
But can anyone explain what this event is?
May Peace Prevail On Earth
It's called a LAN-party.
giel.y contains 2 shift/reduce conflicts
Do not spread panic, please. I am Slovak myself and while it is true, that you could catch infected ticks, it is extremely rare and no reason for panicking.
:-))
Most people there are not vaccinated. If you go to some woods, just apply standard precautions - long trousers, long sleeves, some bug repelent and after finishing your trip, check for any ticks on your body.
Even if you find some, in 90% it is not infected. After removal, just check next day, whether the place is swollen or red. If it is, then visit a doctor, if the disease is diagnosed immediately, you have very good chance of recovery.
On top of that, Banska Bystrica region is hilly, most of the infected ticks are living in the southwest of the country, in the lowlands.
Nonetheless, vaccination is good precaution, but the extent of the problem is incomparable with e.g. malaria in Afrika. Moreover, ticks are problem in the whole Europe, not only in the East (actually, to be precise, Slovakia still belongs to Central Europe, not to the Eastern Europe).
So, enjoy your stay, slovak beer is great and cheap, albeit a bit different from the beer in US or UK (more like Czech or German beer).
Finally, we should probably celebrate, since this was maybe a first mention of my home land on Slashdot
Jan
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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