Quozl's Open Source

Quozl works in outback Australia as a software engineer doing operating system support for a large multinational computer company. When he's not doing that, he creates programs and electronic devices, takes photographs, and a few other things.

This site is where he publishes the stuff. Each item is given colour-coded categories of interest that may help you to find related items. It was never intended to be a blog, though it may look like one.

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Human Interrupt Request Lines

Linux C Programming Electronics
As a software engineer, Quozl often sees himself as part of one great big system, in which he is a component subsystem, along with whatever computer he is using.

But in a reactive role, where most of the time is spent responding to one interrupt after another, one needs a way to service these human interrupts. Most people seem to do it with telephone ringers, text message alert tones, pagers, or popup windows. Focus stealing is annoying. Lose of concentration more so.

Hence the TCP/IP Distributed LED Mimic Panel, consisting of an array of eight LEDs driven from a parallel port that sits on the desk, and a set of spare computers around the house with displays that show a graphical version of the same panel.

(16 April 2008)

Telstra ZTE F165 HSDPA Mobile Phone on Linux

Linux
Quozl upgraded from a CDMA mobile phone to an HSDPA one, and plays with it on Linux. It has a USB interface, and bluetooth.

(28 February 2008)

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