Re: [9fans] Purism laptops

2016-11-12 Thread James A. Robinson
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 1:12 PM Harri Haataja wrote: > https://puri.sm/learn/blobs/ Indeed, blobs seems to be one point. > > Another thing seems to be that they advertise that these laptops > have no hidden features or remote control. How they could claim to > guarantee this and how a customer co

[9fans] Job interview questions

2016-11-12 Thread Winston Kodogo
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Re: [9fans] Purism laptops

2016-11-12 Thread Harri Haataja
On 12 November 2016 at 21:22, James A. Robinson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 8:19 AM, > Andrés Domínguez wrote: >> Do they really make open hardware? In what aspect >> is their hardware more open than any other laptop? > > A summary would bet hat typically the hardware > drivers that are run

Re: [9fans] Purism laptops

2016-11-12 Thread James A. Robinson
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Andrés Domínguez wrote: > D​​o they really make open hardware? In what aspect > is their hardware more open than any other laptop? Hi, A summary would bet hat typically the hardware drivers that are run on a computer come in two possible forms, either closed sour

Re: [9fans] Job interview questions

2016-11-12 Thread cigar562hfsp952fans
Kurt H Maier writes: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 07:03:24PM +1300, Andrew Simmons wrote: >> I’ve just been asked to respond to the following. Apart from number 8, where >> the answer is clearly “because they are clinically insane”, I am at a loss. >> Any hints from the group? >> > > Happy to hel

Re: [9fans] Job interview questions

2016-11-12 Thread cigar562hfsp952fans
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Re: [9fans] Purism laptops

2016-11-12 Thread Andrés Domínguez
2016-11-11 19:51 GMT+01:00 James A. Robinson : > Have folks seen https://puri.sm/ ? Their description of how they are trying > to put together "open" hardware (not 100% there yet) Do they really make open hardware? In what aspect is their hardware more open than any other laptop? Andrés makes

[9fans] anyone using jenkins or hudson?

2016-11-12 Thread Steve Simon
hi i put together a hudson/jenkins client which, (because i had the framework to hand) i implemented as a file system. currently it has been tested against exactly one jenkins instance. anyone willing to test against their build servers, i am particularly interested in a hudson test. -Steve