In 1965 Australia was on a recruiting campaign for immigrants. My wife and I agreed to have a go hoping we could settle in the semi arid regions, the geography we were both used to. We began the paperwork and got preliminary approval. No criminal records and so on. Then, oops!!!, I found myself in the Army with a rifle and off to Vietnam I was sent. I stayed in that lovely place for almost two years. After that we forgot about the Oz move. We almost did it though. Yeah.. It'll be a Fosters eh? Over in the Philippines it's San Miguel. In Japan it's Asahi. Six years ago I was waiting for a flight from Istanbul. I bought a beer from a Dutch maker that had been in continuous business since the year 1275.... if you can believe that. I forget the name but it was 10% alcohol. I drank a large bottle. Wow!!! It was quite good actually. I wish I could remember the name.
I don't know of any breweries in Holland that old perhaps @f33dm3bits may know, I do know a beer that is of high strength La Trappe, I had some at a beer festival a few years back, [not my taste] generally I don't like Light beers [larger, Pilsner etc] I find them a bit tasteless [as Monty Python said, they are like making love in a canoe ] having grown up with traditional British ales and bitter beers.
That's probably some good marketing because 1275 was around medieval times and I doubt beer brands were a thing around those times.
I'm on the Columbia river, upstream a few tens of miles from Portland Or on the Washington side. Life is good.
Wise man.
I've been distro hopping for as long as I can remember... since '93 at least. In 1983 or 4 I bought a Commodore 64 for the family. At that time I seem to remember Apple had the model 2 (II). The grey screen with the cursor in the lower left corner. And IBM? The dinosaur in chief saw what was going on and.... Pretty soon they gave us high and low memory. Boring.
I have a 1TB external SSD Sandisk HD for backups. I never connect it unless I need it so the chances of me accidently causing irreperable harm are low. I can move it to any of my computers so thats' my system. I also keep a pen drive loaded with Puppy Linux in case of emergencies.
^^^ Good man!!
Yeah Puppy is my "emergency kit" go to. I followed it from the beginning. I have CDs with almost every one of them beginning with the first, 1.xx I haven't a computer that will boot it anymore. No matter. It's collectable. I also have an Asus EEEpc 1001 model with Tahrpup booted up and running all the time. I like the little games especially Seahaven solitare. I have the source code for it and would like to install it in other linux flavors but have not yet learned how to do that. There are many versions of Seahaven but the one in Puppy is the best.@Varnaj42 :-
^^^ Good man!!
Y'know, Puppy's probably more pervasive than you give her credit for. Despite that so many folks take the p**s out of her for being little more than a "toy" distro, I can guarantee there's plenty of 'em who keep a "Puppy-on-a-stick" tucked away somewhere safe....."just in case".
More than would be comfortable admitting to that fact, that's for sure...
I've run her exclusively for well over a decade. It's the versatility of use that's always appealed to me, 'cos she's as capable of doing stuff as any other distro, sometimes more so. She's also very capable of surprising you!
Horses for courses (of course). Whatever floats your boat....
Mike.
The topography here is mountainous, deep river valleys and pretty mild weather really. Very little snow in winter. heavy rains but gone in a day or two. In the mid and south east the land is lower, old worn down mountains, large flood plains. Big mistake to build on those. When I studied geoloty in college the 100 year flood cycle was spoken of. So many cities ignore those at their peril. Funny. In matters of risk insurance companies know as much as the weather "professionals". When you foot the bill you pay attention. I've always lived in the mountains or deserts. My favorite are the high deserts. Few people, winds race freely. Not as severe as your outback but cruel enough to keep most city folk away.
