On 02/04/2015 10:17 AM, James B. Byrne wrote:
I had a friend, now deceased, who worked as an RCA colour TV
technician when he was very young. In the 1950s he would be sent to
the homes of people having trouble adjusting the colour settings on
their new RCA's. That was system administration then. Who needs them
now?
Broadcasters. You still need color balance chops in the TV station or
other video production facility; you still need sysadmins in the content
delivery facilities, even if they are a bit redundant in the content
consumer area.
We are dinosaurs. People do not hate us. They just do not understand
why we are still around.
...
Sometimes I just cannot bear to think about this stuff anymore.
Hey, James, go get a cookie, a cup of hot tea, and relax a
spell....maybe fire up the old Altix box for a space heater and get nice
and toasty warm or something....
Sysadmins are still around; the areas in which sysadmins are needed and
the skills sysadmins need to have are just changing, that's all. TV
repairmen still exist; their skillset just is very different today than
what it was a few years back. High-end LED/LCD and plasma TV's are
still expensive enough to merit servicing, which most of the time
involves module changing, service-remote-driven diagnostic menus, and
similar. I still remember needing diddlesticks to do a full convergence
job; the equivalent job today involves service menus and diagnostic
single-board-computers that talk to the service port.
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