Last night’s Silicon Valley Automotive Open Source Group “Meetup” featured Kerry Johnson of QNX. This was a very informative talk and lively interactive session. Kerry shared his observations on the challenges of bringing consumer technology (think iPhone, Android, etc. and their associated apps and user interfaces) into the automotive environment …

As both the CTO of IWL and an attorney, the recent report of the SSL failure in the iOS code concerns me, but not for the reasons in the tech press. This incident once again raises the question of why software seems immune from the laws of liability that apply to other kinds of products? …

A subset of the Maxwell Pro TCP/IP tests were run against the most widely installed desktop Operating System with all known operating system updates applied as of October 1, 2013. The Major Operating System is listed in the Phase 2 Core Protocols IPv6 Ready Logo Program (a popular program to assure that IPv6 implementation will work correctly in the field). A summary of the results follows …

You just you clicked on the link for your domain name, and, oops, it’s gone! Your domain.com is now showing someone else’s content. What happened? Maybe you received some email reminders that you needed to renew that domain name, but did not quite get around to dealing with it. Or maybe you did not receive any email at all! …

We have published a small Python program that may be used to drive a Mini Maxwell directly without the need for a user to operate the Mini Maxwell web pages. This program is an alternative to the spreadsheet based facility that has been available to script Mini Maxwell …

A new Maxwell plugin that can do user controlled re-sequencing of packets is available as part of the latest Maxwell TCP testing package. The plugin is able to re-arrange packets in a flow so that, for example, packets that originate in sequence A, B, C, D, E, F will arrive in the order C, B, A, D, F, E. The plugin allows user control of the re-sequence pattern and several other parameters …