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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Scary title

[God! Awful 2]

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.

-a

Re:Scary title

[reminor]

Wrong !

According to this,

Slovene word for Slovenia is Slovenija
Slovak word for Slovakia is Slovensko

DUI?

[futileboy]

Man, that's a heck of a long way to drive drunk. What is one to do to avoid sobriety?

M$

[Mr. Self estruct]

*Microsoft ploy to get all Linux users intoxicated and in one place*

Robot Ballon

[10 Speed]

I guess we know where that Robot Ballon is heading then...

Damit

[Anonymous Coward]

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 :-(

Re:Damit

[Trigun]

Beer to get her drunk enough to go home with him, linux to look up what to do when you get her home.

Just stay away from the anime. Women don't have tails. If you find one, that's a badthing!

Penguin Beer

[AstroMage]

Penguin Beer- Quite possibly the Best Beer in the World! ;-)

Is the beer free as in linux?

[Trigun]

RMS is going to have a field day!

beer, round trip?

[TWX]

"...I'm driving from England, a 2400 mile round trip!"

Woah. You must have one helluva committed designated driver...

Re:Look for job while you're East!

[Compact Dick]

...you will probably have more luck finding a job in Russia anyway! Good luck!

He doesn't have to worry. After all, in Soviet Russia the jobs find you.

I always suspectedd these two words are close

[SolitaryMan]

But can anyone explain what this event is?

Re:I always suspectedd these two words are close

[geeklawyer]

Its an informal gathering of geeks who hang out in some venue like a church hall for a week and hack and give talks. We also go on walks around interesting areas in the locality; mountains hills whatever. We also go siteseeing a lot caves and castles being a perennial favourite. In truth less walking goes on than I think should happen but hell its a holiday people do what they want.

Then in the evening we invade the local pubs and get blasted (well I do). When the beer hike hits town its a shock and awe thing; we invariably pick a small village with pubs or restaurants that are normally used by 4/5 locals; and all of a sudden they are swamped by 40/50 geeks, its anarchy.

At the moment we only do European country in which some sucke^Hvolunteer has arranged a hall with Net connectivity and power and scouted out accommodation etc. There talk of a US version since so many Americans come but thats not happened so far.

Its totally informal and fun - those of who go are always keen for the next one.

Kinda gives new meaning

[Anonymous Coward]

to rootbeer.

Serious health Warning for beertravellers

[Jarth]

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

Re:Serious health Warning for beertravellers

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Driving? From England?

[bytesmythe]

>>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)

For the Strong Bad-impaired

[bytesmythe]

I have to reply to my own post to protect my dignity.

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 .

Re:This news is great...

[richie2000]

Funnily enough I socialise with other Windows users daily

Oh, I used to work in tech support too.

Re:This news is great...

[richie2000]

I take it your humor.dll just had a BSOD, then?

Re:This news is great...

[giel]

2. I've never heard of a Windows Beer Hike - guess after spending money for Windoze, there's nothing left.

It's called a LAN-party.

Linux.

[Boss, Pointy Haired]

The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

2400 Miles

[Samus]

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. :-)

Re:2400 Miles

[gl4ss]

Easy with your fuel prices :>. Were planning a trip to arctic sea from s. Finland, it's just a days drive, but it's no means cheap in our budget. Biggest hurdle is still:"who drives? I want to drink", i imagine same for that english fellow.

Re:2400 Miles

[Obfiscator]

Likewise for Australia. I don't live there, but I heard these stories when I was visiting.

Tourists (including Americans) came down for the Olympics. Some where known to ask if they could see Uluru (Ayers Rock) during an afternoon when they had a couple hours free. Olypmics were in Sydney. Uluru is a four hour drive from Alice Springs, in the middle of the country. Ha!

Guess most people are ignorant of geography in regions not their own.

What is the beer of choice amongst Linux geeks?

[gosand]

Why, Hacker-Pschorr, of course.

Re:Ooops

[Basehart]

How about, "Have you ever been TO Slovakia and DRUNKEN Beer?" Will that work?

Re:2400 miles? That's nothing!

[nacturation]

Some lower ones:

Canada: 3.46 per square km
Russia: 8.53

Some higher ones:

China: 137.71
Micronesia: 193.55
India: 351.76

And the highest?

Holy See (Vatican): 2045.45 (pop 900, land: 0.44 sq km)