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.

Copy In Place Linux Frustrated by not finding the right program to complete a partial copy of a file over NFS, Quozl writes something to do it. more information, (8 July 2008)

Xtank 1.3f for 800x600 Linux C Programming X-Windows Programming Remember Xtank? Contributions are sought. Quozl had packaged Xtank 1.3f for Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody) back in 2001, and for 3.1 (Sarge) in 2004, modified for 800x600 monitors. Now contributions are encouraged against the source repository ... there are a few opportunities to fix things ... the threading, the robot programs. Learn how to use Darcs and then send Quozl patches. The 800x600 style 2004 binaries: add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file: deb http://quozl.linux.org.au/xtank ./ ... and then apt-get install xtank-north package, source, patches darcs repository of source (7 July 2008)

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. more details (16 April 2008)