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Cisco Ships Mexican Folk Music On VPN Client CD
jemduff writes "So we receive our brand new firewall from CISCO and all goes well with the setup... until we try to upgrade our VPN client and we discovered that the installation CDs from CISCO contain 12 tracks of Mexican music!!? Not too bad if you're into that kind of music ... too bad if you need to get onto your corporate network. How much did those routers cost, again? 5,000,000 pesos?"
Oh dear, XD
- http://www.milkme.co.uk
The Windows version uses OLE.
An american company outsources its CD-pressing to China and ends up with Mexican folk music on the discs.
I don't why but I'm sure that someone, somewhere, is blaming Canada for this.
That's not Folk. But let the Cisco Kid jokes begin.
or Mexican music is to software as melamine is to milk
I'm guessing that somewhere there are some pissed off chicanos whose brand new norteno CD's won't play...
Proverbs 21:19
RIAA sues Cisco for 11,000,000,000,000 pesos, per track.
Long court battle ensues, Cisco claims ownership of anonymous Mexican folk band.
And let's not forget those hapless people who just got the VPN clients. ÂQue?
Someone should keep a look out for the counterpart of this story on TeleMundo and make complete the cycle.
There was a mix-up at the CD pressing factory and a Mexican music CD got labeled with Cisco's VPN software label and has been shipped/delivered to customers as such.
I guess the story here is Cisco doesn't have any/sufficient QA on their CD's coming back from the factory.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
la cocoracha!
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
taco bell... mmm...
--Jamie Ivanov http://www.RadioactiveRussian.com/ http://www.KC9LFD.org/
Thats awesome. I'm going to go buy some more Cisco products so i can get me some Mexicant music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Q83I0Nyvc
...the Cisco Kid.
"Oh, Pancho!"
"Oh, Cisco!"
After all, I'll bet CISCO didn't have a license to redistribute that music.
I must admit: this is funny. I picture the whole situation, and the mariachi music coming out of the speakers of the laptop, and I laugh my ass off. Just imagine those CCIEs with the WTF look on their faces.
I wish I was there, with a camera.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
Somewhere, some DJ is trying to figure out why his CD player is trying to ping the amplifier.
This seems to be the music they're talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
Not that this will help solve the mystery, but whoever pulled this prank has a very poor taste in music, I'd say.
Give Kashyyyk back to the Wookies
I kinda liked the "America" version on the CD:
I like to be in America,
Welfare for me in America,
Sub-Prime-Loans for me in America,
Taxpayer bailouts for me in America!
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
The hint is in his name:
Pablo Francisco
http://youtube.com/watch?v=m0Q83I0Nyvc
We don't need no stinkin' routers!
You see this is good, very good. Too few companies today, and I want to emphasize it too few really support the arts. I mean arts programming used to be a feather in the corporate cap with major vendors underwriting the opera, theatre, school trips to the meuseum, and Lawrence Welk.. Today that is fast disappearing as are the vital arts programs they backed. It's nice to see a company bucking this trend, and it makes the wait for updates that much more eager. I can't wait to see what I get next with my router: Tuvan Throat Singing? Classical jaw harp? or Wesley Willis.
Cisco, you've got my business. Never mind that whole great firewall of China thing. This is cool.
Why does everyone sound shocked? I mean, sure, these days it's not as common, but, 10 years ago..it was a rare occurance, but happend often enough I laughed t it. I can't count the number of audio CD's that were pressed with one name and had NOTHING to do with reality. the greatest example was boot magazine (which is now MaximumPC. Issue #23's shareware CD...at least in the package I got, contained Windows NT Server 4 - said bootdisc 23 on the outside...but the pits were NT Server...and i'm ashamed to admit I did figure out how to get it working (who knew all 1's was a valid NT4 license key)
I had a good one of these a couple years ago. Brought home a copy of the Greatest Hits run of Devil May Cry (PS2). Case was right, disc label was right. Stuck it in the PS2, and the disc turned out to be ... a DVD of the Rankin-Bass stop-motion animated Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. I hadn't seen it in over a decade.
Constructive logic destructs my brain.
Isn't this a compilation disk? RIAA should be over Cisco for distributing it (for pay no less).
The backdoor is known as "La puerta Negra"
A spindle of freshly-pressed discs that haven't had their labels printed yet ends up in the wrong stack, and presto, it ends up with the wrong label and shipped out based on the label.
Back in the early days of DVD, I heard of cases where two titles had misprints with each other's labels. Movie A would get label B, and movie B would get label A. So it's entirely possible that there's some DJ out there who is wondering why he is hearing nothing but a loud screeching, or nothing if his CD player is smart enough to know not to play a data track. But from the description of the music, it would probably be an improvement.
#naabhaprzrag, #sverubfr-000, #agi-fcbafberq, negvpyr[pynff*=' negvpyr-ary-'] { qvfcynl: abar !vzcbegnag; }
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
The last track, past the minute 13, has a hidden message. It translates: "This is Ramón speaking, if you hear this please call amnesty international. I've been enslaved in a chinese CD-making factory. Somebody please help me!!"
Wound up with 3 unreleased tracks from brit band Oasis on my Encarta 95 cd, the tracks didn't get released until about 3 years later. Had no idea who they were though at the time
Who actually uses the software that comes on these CDs anyways? Go to the company's website and download the latest version for crying out loud.
haaaa, revenge is a dish best served cold.
a mexican
All I can say is music copyright and royalties. Cisco's i
That's just one thing you get in a globalized slave labor economy.
Long after the food in your stomach is cold is when most Mexican dishes take their revenge!
I suppose they do multitasking: acept simultaneously pee and poo from the child processes.
Mexico: 100% conservative's America now!
And the RIAA will use this as more evidence that piracy has gone up.
Unauthorized copies of music being shipped...