Title: RE: BBSs wasRe: [scottish] Re: best way to learn more
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> Yep there was a lot of good stuff on Alba. But the best was
> Verities&Balderdash run by the late great Peter Waddel. 
> Never had any Linux
> stuff AFAIR but way back then 93 - 96 I wasnt too aware of Linux. 
> Its amazing to think of the stuff that could get done with
> just the one phone
> line back then and a 28.8k modem. But the phone bills were horrendous.
> V&B was succeeded by SoD after the tragic death of Peter in
> 1996 but it was
> never quite the same despite the heroic efforts of Steven
> Winetrobe. ISTR a
> poster for SoD in Creative Computing a couple of years ago
> and there is still
> a page up at  http://www.sodbbs.demon.co.uk/vandb.htm but it
> hasnt been
> updated in years and most of the links are broken.

Assuming that's Steven Wintrobe at the fore right of the picture I think I used to work with him on my Work Experience Programe back in 1982/83 when he was working for Strathclyde Regional Council.

Small world

Anyway, back to the Linux. How DO I find out what the error message means when my Mandrake 8.1 build dumps on shutdown?

cds

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