Quozl's Open Source

Gytha 0.9 released

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:00:00 -0500

The game of Netrek, a multi-player real-time 2D strategy game, with a full-screen display, sounds, and achievements.

Here's where it gets complicated.

Your team starts with ten planets. Each player flies a starship. You shoot at enemy ships with torpedos and phasers. You fly to, scan and bomb enemy planets to deny their use by the enemy team. You protect your own planets by preventing the enemy from reaching them.

more information, downloads

Netrek Client COW 3.3.1 released

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:00:00 -0500

Quozl has just released another version of the Linux Netrek Client, with many changes. Never played Netrek? Now's the time to learn.

Pick your flavour. If you've never played, try:

a high resolution client for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X,

But if you are a regular, try:

netrek-client-cow-3.3.1.tar.gz

darcs source repository

Netrek - Vanilla 2.18.0 released

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:00:00 -0500

New version of the Netrek Vanilla Server, with many changes.

more information, sources, packages

NetComm V100 VoIP ATA lost password fix

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:00:00 -0500

How to reset the password on a NetComm V100 VoIP ATA:

in an antistatic workplace, remove the front rubber feet, remove the two screws, separate the bottom from the top by 5mm, then exert about 300g of backward pressure on the bottom; it will separate from clips at the back,
remove the PCB and place on workbench, locate the four serial port header pins, between the two largest chips, (or imagine a line drawn from the ethernet socket to the WAN LED; the header is half way along that line),
attach a 3.3V USB serial adaptor to the header pins, pin 2 is ground, pin 1 is transmit data from the ATA, the pin adjacent to pin 1 is receive data to the ATA, and the pin adjacent to pin 2 is a 3.3V supply from the ATA,
configure a terminal program for 115200 baud, and power up the ATA, lots of text will appear,
wait for the User name prompt, then hit enter twice, and a [root @ home]$ prompt will appear, like this:
```
User name: MAX_VOICE_CHANNELS:3
Password: [root @ home]$ 
```
type auth to enter the user configuration mode,
```
[root @ home]$ auth
[root @ auth]$ 
```

add a new user, in the example below the user is qz

[root @ auth]$ adduser qz -o -services cli -permissions admin
Enter password: qz

 User Name Succefully Added.
[root @ auth]$ listusers
1          root                                HTTP CLI FTP    - ADMIN
2          qz                                  CLI             - ADMIN
[root @ auth]$ exit

save settings to flash

[root @ home]$ save
save: codectype = 0, dsp = 0

COUNTRY is 6
**********[Current Flash used is 5739bytes(MAX is 16384bytes)]**********

Configuration saved successfully

power cycle the ATA, then try to telnet to it with the new username, and explore the configuration options.

Netrek - Vanilla 2.17.0 released

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:00:00 -0500

New version of the Netrek Vanilla Server, with many changes.

more information, sources, packages

Desk Charger Timer

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:00:00 -0600

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.

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IP over AX.25

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:00:00 -0600

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.

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Netrek - Vanilla 2.16.0 released

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:00:00 -0500

New version of the Netrek Vanilla Server, with many changes.

more information, sources, packages

Signal Strength Meter

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:00:00 -0500

Quozl was testing a set of One Laptop Per Child units for wireless performance and needed a quick tool that would show the signal strength rapidly rather than the usual method of averaging over several seconds.

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Work Wanted

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0500

Quozl has ample free time at the moment, and is interested in offers of paid work. Write to him at quozl at laptop dot org.