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His skill was in streamlining a business model. AFAIK he hasn't done anything directly to improve computers. He helped lower the cost to consumers. He deserves a lot of business credit, but I'm not sure he deserves any geek cred.

Way back in the day, when I was in high school, Dell was known as a premium computer vendor, with designs that were better than most PC clones. Or at least so said my high-school computer science teacher, Dr. McPherson (who also taught CS at the college down the street), when he bought an 80286-based Dell machine in what must've been around 1987 or 1988. I've forgotten the exact details, but apparently due to their design, the Dell machine actually ran real programs faster than competitors' models with similar processors. I'm not sure what that entailed, maybe a faster memory bus or something, but I specifically remember that Dr. McPherson did lots of research and finally settled on the Dell machine as the superior choice.

They do prohibit p2p:
http://www.utd.edu/~cws031000/1.jpg
Plus whatever else that prompts students to pay for their own connection.

Then practice good economic sense and take your business elsewhere. I wouldn't go to a college that was ran like a high school, thats for sure.

UT-Dallas, which I am sure is a much higher quality campus has almost complete wireless coverage and you can use your laptop wherever you please.

The University of Texas at Dallas (in Richardson) also created one recently, including John Romero on the faculty.

"Peace, Love, and Linux"

I just love that slogan! I wish they had made a T-shirt with it.

Back in college (before the IBM campaign) we had this community service project called Project 200. The slogan was "Peace, Love and Service". When our ACM was trying to think of a slogan I suggested "Peace, Love and Computers" but it didn't fly.

My old school (UTD) laughed at the idea of giving us 100mbps!

Gotta have wireless 'cause it's so cool!