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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?"
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.
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
la cocoracha!
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Q83I0Nyvc
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.
I guess the funnier part is, thousands of Traditional Mexican music lovers haven't noticed the squeals and chirps coming from their CD players.
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain
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; }
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!!"
haaaa, revenge is a dish best served cold.
a mexican