[164573] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Friday Hosing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jorge Amodio)
Wed Jul 17 21:12:29 2013
In-Reply-To: <30513.1374105405@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
From: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 20:11:58 -0500
To: "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Ohh we had some of those at JVNCNet, a real piece of crap.
-Jorge
On Jul 17, 2013, at 6:56 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 16:36:19 -0700, Roy said:
>> On 7/17/2013 1:59 PM, Alex Harrowell wrote:
>>> On 15/07/13 01:09, Tony Patti wrote:
>>>> TWELVE years ago (press release March 20 2001), Comcast deployed Linux-=
based
>>>> Sun Cobalt Qube appliances as CPE with their business-class Internet se=
rvice,
>>>> these provided firewall security, web caching, optional content filteri=
ng,
>>>> an e-mail server, a web server, file and print servers.
>>>=20
>>> This is a good idea.
>=20
>> Whistle Interjet -- circa 1995
>=20
> Of course, in 1995, if you gave a customer something like that, there was
> still a reasonably good chance that doing so wouldn't generate a ton
> of support calls, because if they were a customer at all, they probably ha=
d
> a clue.
>=20
> These days, it seems giving a customer anything more user-servicable than
> an iPad is just asking for trouble...
>=20
