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‘Beer Hunter’ lifts 40,000 pints of Guinness | The Register

Guinness’s St James’s Gate brewery in Dublin has been hit by an audacious raid in which an evidently thirsty man dubbed “the Beer Hunter” made off with 40,000 pints of the famous stout.

According to the Times, the perp simply drove into the brewery yard in his own HGV, hitched it to a “well-provisioned” trailer and drove out again. The total pintage nicked was 360 kegs of Guinness and Budweiser and 90 kegs of Carlsberg, worth a total of £46,000.

Sucks that he got stuck with Budweiser kegs in the process…

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file this under things my cardiologist thinks i should avoid

I’m sorting through a problem with my laptop and I wanted to do a fresh install of Gutsy - without formatting the drive. I just moved all my old system files into a directory and fired up the installer. I wanted it to use my old root file system without formatting. The installer won’t let you do that :(

Don’t worry there is an easy work around. Before you start the installer open a shell and type


sudo mv /lib/partman/check.d/12system_partitions_formatted /tmp


That turns off the check to make sure you are formatting your root partition. Now you can reinstall without formatting your main partition (assuming you choose the manual option on the installer screen). Make sure you have enough room for the install or bad things probably happen :)

I would be lying if i said my brother didn’t make me do the shuffle when i was a kid

Watching shit scroll by for hours makes me a Linux expert overnight!

Is Jay-Z signaling a recession?

But it wasn’t sex, drugs, violence or explicit language that shocked my conscience.

It was the Euros.

The Jay-Z video flashed large stacks of €500 Euros.

When I start seeing rap stars flashing euros instead of U.S. dollars, I know our economy is in trouble.

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Linux gas pump prints Google Maps
In further proof that you can never escape Google or interactive marketing, Gilbarco Veeder-Root announced Google support for its Encore gas pump’s interactive displays. Gilbarco’s Linux-based Applause media system now offers printable Google local business search, maps, driving directions, and coupons.

For drinkers of craft beer, prices may soon be hopping

Hops and malt, a form of barley essential to fermentation, are both in short supply nationwide. The shortage is caused by poor crops, high demand, the weak dollar and the increasing popularity of ethanol, which has prompted farmers to plant corn rather than hops or barley