Re: Friday Hosing

[Jorge Amodio <jmamodio () gmail com>]

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 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...