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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
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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.
I'm guessing that somewhere there are some pissed off chicanos whose brand new norteno CD's won't play...
Proverbs 21:19
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.
la cocoracha!
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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.
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
these kind of things happen. and considering the size of the company involved (and the volume of product they ship), it's almost guaranteed to happen once in a while.
in this case it might not have been a problem on Cisco's end, unless they press their own CDs. whenever you depend on third parties (i.e. outsourcing manufacturing) you expose yourself to these type of factory screw ups, and no amount of QA will prevent it unless you have complete vertical integration.
all you can do is pick your suppliers carefully and obtain compensation for factory mistakes such as these. and if you're lucky, the screw up won't damage your company's reputation or customer relations.
at my work we've gone through several different printers and CD/DVD manufacturers for this exact reason. we didn't have any mixups this bad, but there have been many sub-standard shipments causing delays.
but by far the worst case was when my boss, against my warnings, decided to pursue DRMed audio CDs. i forget the name of the DRM scheme we went with, but it was a popular DRM technology that many of the majors were using at the time. we ended up getting a flood of complaints from customers who couldn't get their CDs to play on their computer or CD players. it ended up costing the company a ton of money and likely drove away a lot of customers. the stupid thing is, there was no evidence that our music was being pirated, and sales were actually on the rise due to the newly launched online store.
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
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.
Ayuda! Mis oÃdos estÃn sangrando profusamente!
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
Doesn't matter, you can have the concentrator check the client, unless someones figured out how to fake the cryptographic signature with a tampered binary there's no real chance of a secure network being compromised.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
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.
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!!"
haaaa, revenge is a dish best served cold.
a mexican
All I can say is music copyright and royalties. Cisco's i
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...