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:

Kernel Patching to Fix Audio Socket Electrical Damage Linux C Programming Electronics Laptop speakers stopped working. Only the right channel of the headphones remains. But using a very old driver made the speakers work. Turns out electrical damage from an attached sound system broke the headphone detection. The operating system was faithfully turning off the amplifier. Software fix to the rescue ... Update: a remastered patch for alsa-driver-1.0.20. more information, (18 May 2009)

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. Update: and now Ubuntu 9.04 recognises it. more information, (17 May 2009)

Usage Monitoring of a UHF CB Repeater Network Programming Electronics Question was, if the ham radio club had to put solar panels in to run the repeater on the mountain, how much power would be needed? Without climbing the mountain to measure it. Here Quozl hacks up a repeater usage monitor, consisting of a spare handheld radio connected to a laptop audio input. more information, (31 October 2008)