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Cisco Ships Mexican Folk Music On VPN Client CD 79

Posted by samzenpus 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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Cisco Ships Mexican Folk Music On VPN Client CD

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  • Well, of course (Score:5, Funny)

    by wandazulu ( 265281 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @02:11PM (#25302945)

    The Windows version uses OLE.

  • Uh-oh (Score:5, Funny)

    by Yvan256 ( 722131 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @02:14PM (#25303007) Homepage Journal

    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.

    • Not necessarily... You forgot to read the fine print on the "Made in the USA" label with an asterisk.

      Made the USA*

      [micro font]
      With parts from Canada, China and Mexico
      Assembled in Mexico with Chinese Labor (or Labour for our British friends)
      Overseen by Canadian Overlords via Cisco Telepresence
      CDs Pressed in China with Mexican Music courtesy of disgruntled Chinese employee for their bretheren in Mexican Cisco Plant
      [/micro font]

      I disgress...
    • And the RIAA will use this as more evidence that piracy has gone up.

      Unauthorized copies of music being shipped...

  • Meanwhile... (Score:3, Funny)

    by wcrowe ( 94389 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @02:24PM (#25303187)

    I'm guessing that somewhere there are some pissed off chicanos whose brand new norteno CD's won't play...

  • And on the flip side... (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward

    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.

  • Translation (Score:1, Redundant)

    by bill_mcgonigle ( 4333 ) *

    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.

    • Re:Translation (Score:5, Funny)

      by Dr Caleb ( 121505 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @03:22PM (#25304239) Homepage Journal

      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:Translation (Score:5, Interesting)

      by lysergic.acid ( 845423 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @03:22PM (#25304253) Homepage

      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.

  • la cocoracha!

  • Thats awesome. I'm going to go buy some more Cisco products so i can get me some Mexicant music.

  • I suspect... (Score:2, Redundant)

    by Chris Mattern ( 191822 )

    ...the Cisco Kid.

    "Oh, Pancho!"
    "Oh, Cisco!"

  • After all, I'll bet CISCO didn't have a license to redistribute that music.

  • OK guys... (Score:5, Funny)

    by blind biker ( 1066130 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @03:14PM (#25304095) Journal

    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)

      by Zarhan ( 415465 )

      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)

    by Tatisimo ( 1061320 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @03:55PM (#25304699)
    The song sample is one of the crappy bootleg remixes that wanna be DJs sell on swap meets. Also, it's crappy "Narco Corridos" (check out what wikipedia has to say http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcocorrido [wikipedia.org]), a genre that some songwriter friends of mine define as "the cancer that is killing Mexican music". The first thing is the cliche echo deep voice, frequent in remix CDs, followed by some guy singing about how much he loves drugs. Oh, and the pic is totally unrelated. I've never heard narco corridos played by a mariachi band!

    Not that this will help solve the mystery, but whoever pulled this prank has a very poor taste in music, I'd say.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by jimper ( 1374763 )
      The first song is basically our version of 'gangster rap'. It is probably a pirate version destined to be sold in either Mexico or the USA...

  • 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!

  • The hint is in his name:

    Pablo Francisco

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=m0Q83I0Nyvc [youtube.com]

  • This is good, A great world deserves great art. (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Irvu ( 248207 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @04:51PM (#25305373)

    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.

  • 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 admi

  • 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.

  • The backdoor is known as "La puerta Negra"

  • This can happen from time to time (Score:3, Funny)

    by Megane ( 129182 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @07:25PM (#25307139)

    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.

  • ...a puzzled Mexican family is listening to digital noise on their CD player.

  • When played (Score:4, Funny)

    by chord.wav ( 599850 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @10:01PM (#25308373) Journal

    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!!"

  • finally (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward

    haaaa, revenge is a dish best served cold.

    a mexican

  • All I can say is music copyright and royalties. Cisco's i

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