Re: Bus Durrës-Prizren - any recommendation?

2022-07-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
hink on that line, prices don't change over time, but cabins may get >booked up. Yep, cabins book up quickly on the ferries across the Adriatic. My initial plan was to do Ancona <-> Durrës, then had to switch to Bari <-> Durrës instead - same trip as Enrico. -- Steve McIntyre

Re: Train via Italy

2022-04-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
n 2022-07-15 23:00 from Bari, which should arrive in >Durrës 2022-07-16 08:45. Aha! I'm booked on the same ferry with my car, but 24h earlier... :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane...

Re: Driving from France to Prizren: visa requirements

2022-03-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
own to Italy and then across on the ferry to Albania: https://wiki.earth.li/DebconfTravel2022#Driving That will likely take about the same time, cost a little more but also avoid quite so many different countries for the covid/visa/etc. rules. I've not yet started looking in details at those

Re: DebConf20 registration is now open (with caveats)

2020-05-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
oing by the thousands of people which >needs to be virus-free so that the conference is safe to attend. > >Even if that's at the end of the epidemic event, that's still IMO high >risk, knowing that we're all from a very different place in the world. Agreed. > -- Steve

Re: Announcing the elephant in the room BOF

2019-07-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
y do believe this discussion needs to happen. I think >that we ended up shutting this down a bit too prematurely after the >decision was announce. I think people have not been fully heard on this >issue, and I think that is harmful for our community overall. So where does it go from here?

Re: moar stickers

2019-07-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 08:18:14PM -0300, Jonathan Carter wrote: >On 2019/07/23 16:06, Holger Levsen wrote: >> - free software, fuck yeah! > >Thank you, this is a great sticker! Definitely. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com

Re: Tips/warnings/suggestion for newcomers at DebConf19

2019-06-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
interested in and why they're doing stuff in Debian. There are many many stories, and people will want to hear yours too. :-) 3. Don't worry about feeling like an outsider or a newbie. Everybody started somewhere. Debian people are amongst the friendliest and most accommodating

Re: DebConf19 Beers

2019-05-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
We are thinking in: >> 1 - IPA >> 2 - Wheat >> 3 - Pilsen >> 4 - miscellaneous: Stout, England Pale Ale, American Blonde Ale, >> Porter, other? > >Some kind of dark beer would be nice. Brown / Stout / Porter. +1. No, +lots :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Questions after talks at DebConf (idea)

2018-09-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
DebConf helped me a lot to get over that, and that includes conversations started in Q&Q. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Mature Sporty Personal More Innovation More Adult A Man in Dandism Powered Midship Specialty

Re: Questions after talks at DebConf (idea)

2018-09-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
ascades is a very different kind of conference. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed?

"Ignoring Negativity" followup session moved!

2018-08-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
s in this kind of session with as wide an audience as possible. We're now going to be in room X from 16:30 on Saturday. Hope to see some of you there! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "... the premise [is] that privacy is about hidin

GSoC students at DC18! Free gift - come find me

2018-07-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey! I've already met some of this year's Summer of Code students at DebConf. If I've not seen you and given you a Debian-related gift yet, please come find me! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I used to be the first kid on

Debian-branded USB keys at DC18

2018-07-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
find me if you want some. I'm Sledge on IRC... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead

Re: Tickets for HSR train from Taoyuan to Hsinchu

2018-07-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
quicker at joining the queue on the platform I'd have got a seat. No major problem for me. Instead, I got to stand right next to the AC vent and that was nice. I did see people happily offering up seats for those in need when I got on. Thoroughly pleasant all-round.

Re: nearby stuff

2018-07-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
was the idiot foreigner in there who spoke no Chinese at all when the cashier was asking me questions. Got there in the end! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and arrived to find a post-it no

Re: Spare Thinkpad power brick, anyone?

2018-07-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 09:36:33PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: >On Sat, 21 Jul 2018, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> I've been an idiot and left the power brick for my X220 at home. I > >I guess X260 doesn't make a difference, I could bring one, but I am only >arrivin

Spare Thinkpad power brick, anyone?

2018-07-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
rnally grateful...! :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed?

Re: Hotel recommendation near by venue

2018-07-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
hare the link of hotel or any other recommendations if you have . Hi Mehul, There are quite a few of us staying at http://chuhu.landishotelsresorts.com/ nearby. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We we