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.
