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Cisco Ships Mexican Folk Music On VPN Client CDComments:78
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samzenpus
on Wednesday October 08, @02:05PM
from the whistle-while-you-work dept.
from the whistle-while-you-work dept.
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?"
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Thats what you get for out sourcing... (Score:2)
Oh dear, XD
Well, of course (Score:5, Funny)
The Windows version uses OLE.
Re:Well, of course (Score:5, Funny)
Uh-oh (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Meanwhile... (Score:3, Funny)
I'm guessing that somewhere there are some pissed off chicanos whose brand new norteno CD's won't play...
Re:Meanwhile... (Score:4, Funny)
Los chicanos no compran esos CDs. Se venden copias en la calle, y esos son mas baratos. Vive la Raza!
Re: (Score:3, Interesting)
Me pregunto si, tal vez se existen un grupo llaman "Cisco"?
And on the flip side... (Score:2, Insightful)
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.
That software has bugs, specifically (Score:5, Funny)
la cocoracha!
Re:That software has bugs, specifically (Score:5, Funny)
la cocoracha!
The chocolate-roach?
Re: (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, right next to the Crunchy Frog.
Re: (Score:3, Funny)
You mean "la chupacabra".
An interview with the new Cisco VP of Mfg... (Score:4, Funny)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Q83I0Nyvc [youtube.com]
I suspect... (Score:2, Redundant)
...the Cisco Kid.
"Oh, Pancho!"
"Oh, Cisco!"
Cue the RIAA lawsuit in 5 ... 4 ... (Score:2)
OK guys... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re: (Score:2)
As a CCIE I must say that there'd probably be "Sigh....can't these guys get ANYTHING right"-reaction instead of a "WTF"...
Mexican here, shedding some light (Score:5, Informative)
Not that this will help solve the mystery, but whoever pulled this prank has a very poor taste in music, I'd say.
This is good, A great world deserves great art. (Score:3, Insightful)
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. [wikipedia.org]. 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.
This can happen from time to time (Score:3, Funny)
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.
When played (Score:4, Funny)
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!!"
Re:Translation (Score:5, Funny)
I guess the funnier part is, thousands of Traditional Mexican music lovers haven't noticed the squeals and chirps coming from their CD players.
Re: (Score:2)
Ayuda! Mis oÃdos estÃn sangrando profusamente!
Re:Translation (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Re: (Score:3, Informative)
The blackdoor is known as "La puerta Negra"
Fixed it for you.