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Comment on Happy 2015! by Jeff Licquia

2015-03-17T01:40:58Z

Nope, never lived there. Two years in Fischer, two years in the apartments in the south, across the tracks by BGC.

That would be Sean of the Harrison variety, I presume? How are you all doing?

(Wheaton College stuff, for the confused.)

Comment on Happy 2015! by Lauran Bell

2015-03-16T18:03:04Z

Hi, Jeff,
Were you in the Lebar house?
Since I’m the keeper of the calendar over here I’m hoping to get some info and to see if I can pitch in on the reunion formation.
Lauran
(Mrs. Sean)

Comment on Linux Is Hard, Except When It Isn’t by Jeff Licquia

2013-04-25T17:34:34Z

Dell is doing better on releasing their updates with this program. According to the review, their mods to 12.04 are in a PPA, and every one of their mods is in 13.04 as released today.

I agree generally about preloads. The nice thing with Linux generally is that removing the crapware is an easy “apt-get remove” or “yum remove” away.

As for quality: I currently use an Inspiron as my travel laptop, and am happy with it. My point in pointing to this example is the quality of Dell’s bundling of Ubuntu, which I think is noteworthy. I certainly wouldn’t complain if Lenovo and HP followed suit.

Comment on Linux Is Hard, Except When It Isn’t by Sven

2013-04-25T07:24:33Z

Two years or so ago I had my hands on a brand new Dell Latitude E6420 preloaded with Ubuntu. It was as well tweaked for that hardware but to a point where not even all the packages installed on that laptop where available in the Dell repository for that Ubuntu release. And I think it was Ubuntu 10.04 LTS tweaked to work on the by that time brand new Sandybridge plattform which must have been painful to achieve.

I’m not sure if that’s a beneficial way to help the open source community or consumers at large. It’s the same crap you see with windows pre loads. You’ve a lot of stuff installed you don’t need and if you start from scratch you’ll have a lot of problems to get the drivers/tweaked packages back. 🙁

Beside that: I don’t think Dell products are of a desirable quality. I don’t even feel you get what you pay for since they’re not that cheap either.

Comment on Linux Is Hard, Except When It Isn’t by hadrons123

2013-04-25T06:55:03Z

Even though Ars technica is good in terms of tech gadget news, they seriously need a lot of open source knowledge. They have no idea of the open source community at all!

Comment on Life Lesson: Don’t Buy At Sam’s Club by Anonymous

2013-04-04T03:26:30Z

You’re an idiot

Comment on The End by reico henry

2012-07-05T22:27:59Z

I recently lost a company job in the same situation. it’s weird how close the bond is when you leave huh?

Comment on Time Flies by Dean Esmay

2012-05-30T19:47:49Z

God, it’s hard for me to believe my oldest will be there in only a little over 3 years. My prayer is that my failures are outnumbered by the things I did right, and to otherwise give thanks to God for him in my life.

Comment on Time Flies by Jeff Licquia

2011-12-23T00:30:04Z

I remember seeing that when you first announced it. It’s awesome!

Comment on Time Flies by Christia

2011-12-22T21:55:31Z

Jeff,

You can guess how I share such pride as I often express the very same one..:-). Particularly when the object of my pride does this: http://kikithon.org/tiki-index.php

And I particularly share your last sentence!