[BC] Future of Radio Eng. /was/ Computer based audio

[Lamar Owen]

On Thursday 16 February 2006 09:24, Tom Bosscher wrote:
> 	The average IT dude will have no idea how to interface any
> console/router equipment with the EAS box. No idea how to install a
> separate and isolated on air switcher to select between two
> server/routing systems.
[snip]
> 	In IT work, there is no "thinking outside the box". Most broadcast
> engineers on this list don't think outside the box. They kick the box
> out of the way! They do what has to be done. Those who do neither
> deserve no income.

An interesting take on it (or IT), Tom.

I must, obviously, disagree.  :-)

There are great similarities between what is done in the typical IT shop today 
and what is done in the typical broadcast shop today; the differences are 
typically the same as the differences between plumbing with PEX and plumbing 
with CPVC.  That is, you need a different set of tools to run PEX from the 
set you need to run CPVC.

The same is true in BE versus IT; different set of tools, similar jobs.  Both 
are service oriented.  Both are types of plumbing, and creative solutions to 
problems (in the IT world, note the proliferation of open source or 'LAMP' 
solutions to problems).  

The whole open source world is built on 'Doing what has to be done.'
-- 
Lamar Owen
Director of Information Technology
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
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Rosman, NC  28772
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