Ohh we had some of those at JVNCNet, a real piece of crap. -Jorge
On Jul 17, 2013, at 6:56 PM, valdis.kletni...@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 >>>> service, >>>> these provided firewall security, web caching, optional content filtering, >>>> an e-mail server, a web server, file and print servers. >>> >>> This is a good idea. > >> Whistle Interjet -- circa 1995 > > 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 had > a clue. > > These days, it seems giving a customer anything more user-servicable than > an iPad is just asking for trouble... >