Quozl's Open Source Quozl worked in outback Australia as a software engineer doing operating system support for a large multinational computer company ... and is looking for a new job. 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. It even has an RSS feed:

Desk Charger Timer Linux Electronics If you pay for the power at your desk, and your power is expensive, you learn the value of turning stuff off. Chargers for gadgets seem to multiply, and each adds a bit more to the bill. Yet they don't actually need to be on all the time. A quick hack is done to have a Python script turn on a bank of gadget chargers, and turn them off under automated control. more details (5 February 2010)

IP over AX.25 Linux Electronics Radio There's lots of stuff on the 'net for amateur radio operators who want to get into the transmission of internet packets (IP) over radio ... but it is widespread, occasionally conflicting, and often out of date. Here's a quick attempt to bring things into the current century ... the task is to get a ping(8) between two computers using two handheld amateur radio transceivers. more details (24 December 2009)

Netrek - Vanilla 2.16.0 released C Programming X-Windows Programming Network Programming New version of the Netrek Vanilla Server, with many changes. more information, sources, packages (1 September 2009)