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Linuxbierwanderung Among The Heather 106

Posted by timothy from the free-as-in-green dept.
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."
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  • Linux Drinking Game (Score:2, Funny)

    by 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 (Score:2, Funny)

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

    • Nahh, too dry.

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

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

      Dublin is a very peaceful and lovely place, with extremely friendly natives, and of course, most excellent Beer.

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

      • Re:Linux Drinking Game (Score:4, Informative)

        by Simon Brooke ( 45012 ) <stillyet@googlemail.com> on Wednesday August 28, 2002 @04:42AM (#4154969) Homepage Journal
        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 (Score:4, Interesting)

        by Draoi ( 99421 ) <draiocht@maCOFFEEc.com minus caffeine> on Wednesday August 28, 2002 @05:51AM (#4155069)
        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 [taoiseach.gov.ie] clearly shows this.

        Mod accordingly ... :-/

        • And to be extremely pedantic... Éire, when spelt as "Eire" without the accent mark (síneadh fada) means "burden".
        • > 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.
    • one thing is sure: if this were played with blue screens, the evening would be much funnier. ;-)
  • Hiking and beer drinking....
    Ireland is thee place for beer drinking, it's
    not a passtime it's a way of life.

    • Re:I'd go just for the beer and a hike or two (Score:1, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Naah. Speak as an Irishman, Germany's better for beer drinking. Ireland's better for having fun doing other things while drinking beer, though. In germany, one can approach beer drinking with single-minded determination. In Ireland, you'll barely have a pint in before something bizarre happens that demands at least part of your attention.

  • Free as in beer!? (Score:4, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28, 2002 @04:01AM (#4154901)
    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!? (Score:2, Interesting)

      by 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.
      • As a drinker of real beer I feel abliged to aplogise for the week excuses for beer that have managed to get across the pond from old blighty.

        However I have found that good beer can be found in America, at least in Boston where I spent a very cold winter. Check out the brewpubs if you have any in your locality. The beer was better and so was the atmosphere IMHO.

        • Re:Free as in beer!? (Score:2, Interesting)

          by ynohoo ( 234463 )
          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.
      • Speaking as an Irishman, Guinness is among my favourite beers. However whenever I go to England I bring back crateloads of Theakstons Old Peculier, a traditional dark ale with an amazing heritage. Tanglefoot (not by Theakstons), Waggledance (a beer made with honey) and, as mentioned elsewhere, Old Speckled Hen are also great. Lager? Take it or leave it (but I mostly leave it).
      • 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.

        • 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 [unibroue.com], 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.

    • At least Guinness (written with two n's) is a heavily guarded recipe and only licensed breweries are allowed to brew Guinness. However, real connoisseurs (like the folk at Liverpool) hold that Guinness isn't real Guinness unless it's made from the waters of river Liffey, which flows through Dublin (where the original Guinness brewery is located). It is known that seaweed is one of the special ingredients, though.

      Hopefully they do take the water from upstream of the city...
    • Are the beer recipes open-source?
      Seriously. I want to know. It says on their page they had two options for beer:
      Option 1 is the quickest and cheapest - one of the Biddy Early Brews of our choice rebottled with a special design.

      Option 2 - a special brew. More time, higher cost and we need to provide a recipe.
      So if it's a special brew - opensource the recipie. I'm an avid homebrewer and I want to give some of these recipies a try!
    • I am starting a beer database...as discussed at the Extreme Markup conference [extrememarkup.com] in Montreal a couple of weeks ago. I committed a while back to starting a Beer "published subject [oasis-open.org]" (using Topic Maps [ontopia.net]) as a use-case, and quite a lot of people have expressed an interest.

      An announcement (here and elsewhere) will be up soon. Meantime mail me [mailto] if you want to contribute. You will need to grok XTM [topicmaps.org] if you want to get involved in the detail, but simpler submissions will be taken via a Web form.

      ///Peter

    • 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...)

      Someone HAS started a (mostly) global beer database. RateBeer.com [ratebeer.com] They claim to have over 16,000 beers currently listed...

      CAH

      (mmm... Anchor Steam)

    • You forgot:

      4. Will Beerdot be started? (Beer for Nerds. Hop that matters.) And will beerdotting mean that after a beer is mentioned on Beerdot, all people drink that beer, and the brewery is not able to brew more of it fast enough, i.e. they don't have enough beer bandwidth (beerwidth?) to serve all those drinks?

  • isnt giving beer..... (Score:3, Funny)

    by tanveer1979 ( 530624 ) on Wednesday August 28, 2002 @04:06AM (#4154911) Homepage Journal
    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
  • After seeing this [linuxbierwanderung.org] I'm really hoping that NO ONE will be drinking while carrying their laptop WHILE hiking! With two hands off your beer you might spill it! You wouldn't want to waste perfectly good 'Holy Penguin Pee' now would you? Plus there's also the risk that in your drunken stagger through the woods you might drop your laptop. So remember, when drinking, keep your laptop as far away as possible and keep your beer in a closeable container (like a water bottle, that may take away from the taste of the beer though.)
  • 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. ;]

  • Nice... (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    I just
    $> cd /pub
    $> more beer
    • I just

      $> cd /pub
      $> more beer

      Isn't "less" better than "more"?-)

      And, remembering that the pubs close pretty early in Ireland, you'll need to

      $> cd /home

      at some point for more beer.

      • Not so in places like Doolin. While I am living in Sydney, Oz at the moment, Doolin is not far from my home town. While the laws state pubs must close at 11:30p.m. Sun-Wed, and 12:30p.m. Thurs-Sat, most pubs take a flexible view of this (i.e. you will still be singing into your beer at 2,3,4 or later....). Depends on how close the pub is to the nearest Garda (Police) station....
  • Where are the lads that fought with me when open source was made
    Oh Gra Mo Criodh, I long to see the boys of the Linux Brigade.

  • network setup... (Score:5, Informative)

    by kevin lyda ( 4803 ) on Wednesday August 28, 2002 @04:54AM (#4154993) Homepage
    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 [irishwan.org].

    our company is doolin technologies [doolin.com]. 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 [www.odtr.ie] as a place you might be able to direct your complaint.
    • Many thanks Doolin Technologies!!! Couldnt have read /. or picked up email w/out you. A geek without connectivity is a sad sight indeed.

      as for Eircom - bah.

    • 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 [linux.ie].
  • Come on folks - for those of us that can't make it, how about letting us see how you are all getting on. And the web sites could do with updating too.
  • This is the same as this story: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/25/023723 8&mode=thread&tid=162 [slashdot.org]
    A simple search would have revealed the story.
  • For Ireland it would be amongst the Shamrocks, or perhaps the bogs ;-)
  • the Linuxbierwanderung

    What you say?

    • Linux = (well, I don't need to explain that :-))
      Bier = German for beer
      Wanderung = German for hike

      Therefore it's the Linux beer hike.

      Given things like Linuxbierwanderung and Linux Tag, I guess all geeks must start to learn German soon :-)
  • 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.

    There's nothing like a network connection to the rest of the world to make a real camping experience!

  • stealing ThinkGeek's idea. :)
  • 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?
  • and the 'Holy Penguin Pee' (which is a Lager).

    That brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "almighty piss up"

  • ...unless it'll be renamed to GLBW for GNU/Linuxbierwanderung.

    /.

    DocSnyder.

  • Linuxbierwanderung would be a wonderful name for a rock band.
  • I do feel a bit cheated - my two week tour of Ireland and England was really badly timed. I was too early for Linuxbierwanderung and too late for the Great British Beer Festival held in London.

    However, I did manage to visit Doolin while in Ireland. A really nice small village, with lots of fields around it and nice pubs, too. Good quality hostels, as well. And the starry skies you get on a cloudless night are pretty amazing, as there's no light pollution for miles around.

    Didn't find an internet café, though.
    • > And the starry skies you get on a cloudless night
      > are pretty amazing, as there's no light pollution
      > for miles around.

      Cloudless skies? You mean it wasn't raining?

      > Didn't find an internet café, though

      There's one in Lisdoonvarna
  • Were I a bit older I'd have attended. *sigh* one year to go...
  • As an avid player of Irish dance music and a Linux user, this is particularly interesting to me. Doolin is (has been?) known for its thriving traditional music scene, though the word's been out for a while now... Anyway I'm going back there in late October, but this Linux shindig will be over by then :(

    One other thing: Doolin is just up the road from Ennis, which had a project [ennis.ie] back in the late 90's to wire the whole town for broadband, IIRC. Don't really know how it turned out.
  • Seriously, I saw one down the road from McDermott's. Also, some one should stick a fada over the E, as eire means burden without it. :)

    Brooke

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