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...