Blog of Talmage 7.4.2003

Anti-war Demonstration Repressed in Oakland

This is crazy: Police firing any kind of weapons at unarmed, peaceful protestors. According to reports you'll read in the article or articles it references, the projectiles were

• bags of beans
• wooden beads
• rubber bullets

The protesters said that they were on the dock to blockade American President Lines, a corporation that profits from the war. Because of the overreaction of the police, the ILWU have shut down the Oakland docks.

One of the articles recommends docummenting your injuries if you're assaulted during a demonstration.

I think the police reacted out of fear.

Retrocomputing

Wouldn't it be cool to have an Alto? Lots of people play with old hardware. It's called 'retrocomputing'. Take a look at Eric Smith's Retrocomputing page.

On onespeeddave.com , I have a PDP-11 simulator running BSD Unix. Feel free to ask for an account. E-mail me. Tell me your name, e-mail address, and what you'd like to do with your account on my faux PDP-11. Also tell me the userid you want on the PDP-11 and your initial password.

Xerox Alto Computer 30th Anniversary

Happy birthday, Alto! The Alto is what started it all. Apple's renditions of the Alto were the Lisa and the Mac. Microsoft Windows obviously borrows from the Alto.

Alan Kay's current project is Croquet.