Re: [SLUG] Oracle 9i database and samba
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 12:15:33PM +1100, Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:03:22AM +1100, Jeremy Portzer wrote: Joel Heenan wrote: Network filesystems are not normally used for database files. I work for an ASP that has all of its Oracle databases (hundreds of them) mounted via NFS. It works just fine. The database servers are running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, and the NFS mount points are NetApp filers. I believe NetApps are specifically supported by Oracle but not NFS generally. (which you touch on later in this message) I believe the metalink articles talk about NFS being support with out touching on a vendor Even so this is just a convenience, it does nothing to 'share' the database unless you mean clustering. Access to the database is always by an Oracle protocol e.g. bequeath, sqlnet or something like jdbc, never by direct access to the files. Matt PS getting seriously off-topic here, I suggest following up to -chat -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- I've enjoyed just about as much of this as I can stand. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software
Hi, I work in tech support on the Medilink Assist national help desk supporting MedilinkXP (Medical Billing with eClaims / Appointment book software) and Medilink Clinical (Clinical Progress notes, Pathology requests and Medical Script prescriptions for patients software). The Medilink practice management suite is a proprietary software solution for Windows only with a price tag of around $2500 for single user and $550 for additional workstations along with $297 to keep the software up-to-date. The Clinical module is around $1400 with additional workstations around $300. The average specialist practice has around 3 users of the billing/appointment software and 1 or two clinical modules (for each provider practicing there). GPs and larger specialist practices have a much greater number of reception PCs and practicing doctors (some of which need to access the database remotely) so it can get quite expensive, even though they do have a generous amount of money to spend on the practice. The main concern is storing patient records in a proprietary format, talking about the biggest supplier and main competitor, HCN, with their practice management software, PracSoft, and clinical software, Medical Director, used in the majority of GPs, or BlueChip, used in the majority of Specialists (not to give away any inside information about Medilink); their products are subscription-based and you must have a current yearly subscription to use the product; not that there the product isn't good in a year's time, it's just in read-only mode; HCN's way to make sure everyone is up-to-date (as medical information and Medicare schedule rates change over time). Exporting patient files, with the patients details (name, DOB, sex, Medicare number, etc.) from HCN's software is possible as they can be exported from the program as a delimited text file (patients.out), but the patient's billing history, etc. cannot be imported into another medical practice suite and the database isn't accessible without HCN's access (logged in with a valid logon). Now, this type of software is the perfect candidate to be on an open platform (which some medical practices use Linux to store a flat-file database on), and with simple google seaches I've found some open-source Medical Billing/Appointment book practice management suites, but they were all on 0.x releases and unsuitable for the Australian medical billing system, with no mention to Medicare. Has anyone found anything for Australia; I'd be interested in following the development for a Linux/multiplatform open-source practice management suite suited to Australia's medical/Medicare standards. I post on behalf of myself, for my interests and the community's interests only and not an employee of Medilink. Thank you, Armin Marth -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Installfest at the University of Wollongong
Hello everyone, SCLUG, the South Coast Linux Users Group, are holding their annual installfest for Informatics students at the University of Wollongong. This is a focused installfest to assist students to create a dual boot box for themselves so they have access to the same Linux at home as they have in the labs. As some students are reticent to risk their boxes, the University is going to have some play boxes available for students to do installs on. There will be two sessions on Saturday 15th March, 2008. (total time frame 9am - 5pm, exact time details yet to be advised). Anybody who can assist on one, both, or part there of is most welcome. A number of SLUG members are taking part. For more information, please contact Ashley Maher: ashley [DOT] maher [AT] didymodesigns [DOT] com [DOT] au signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software
quote who=Armin Marth Has anyone found anything for Australia; I'd be interested in following the development for a Linux/multiplatform open-source practice management suite suited to Australia's medical/Medicare standards. Have you looked at Medsphere, and whether or not it could be improved to cover Australian requirements? I have some friends who work there and/or have done work for them. Their code is built from the public domain VistA system (of no relation to the Windows brand), which was created by the US Department of Veterans Affairs [1]. - Jeff -- GUADEC 2008: Istanbul, Turkey http://www.guadec.org/ Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box. - Italian proverb -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software
Exporting patient files, with the patients details (name, DOB, sex, Medicare number, etc.) from HCN's software is possible as they can be exported from the program as a delimited text file (patients.out), but the patient's billing history, etc. cannot be imported into another medical practice suite and the database isn't accessible without HCN's access (logged in with a valid logon). to me it sounds like what is needed is to transform the exported file into an XML schema which, if done in a meaningful way, could be fairly easily transformed into any desired format - that is, there's probably only a certain amount of different information types to worry about, and each type could be captured with appropriate markup and class definitions.. then it could be imported and/or exported into any db schema with a standardised parser Now, this type of software is the perfect candidate to be on an open platform (which some medical practices use Linux to store a flat-file database on), and with simple google seaches I've found some open-source Medical Billing/Appointment book practice management suites, but they were all on 0.x releases and unsuitable for the Australian medical billing system, with no mention to Medicare. Has anyone found anything for Australia; I'd be interested in following the development for a Linux/multiplatform open-source practice management suite suited to Australia's medical/Medicare standards. I completely agree, and would even go further to day that it is exactly this kind of information that needs to be freed.. but in terms of the software itself, I imagine that this sector is in a particularly lucrative market place. What I mean to say is that given the international climate around medical data (well, ok, the USA's medical system), the goodness and badness of software can really be established in how usable it is for professionals who are anything but IT focused, and in fact are more properly focused on the job at hand - namely, curing illness. If the information is published in open formats, the software itself can compete in each of the localised markets, given the particular laws that are applicable in different countries and different states that may effect various aspects of the system, and there's nothing wrong with that, but what is important, and I mean *really* is important (and I definitely feel in this circumstance more than others), is that transportability of the information itself. An open source product can compete in the market as with any other vendor, and I think many here would advocate such a solution, but really I think it's an open data format that should be higher on the list of priorities for medical information.. this would, needless to say, provide possibilities of exchange between different hospitals and GP practices that can be vendor neutral, and can evaluate the effectiveness of software on it's functional merits rather than the ability of a licensing model to lock in an entire industry to a single solution with extortionate fees. An open source model for the software may benefit from this environment with a properly thought out, probably OO design, but software companies with more focused resources may or may not be able to be more effective in that space, but when it comes to the medical industry's priorities, a focus on patient care, I think, far outways whether some software is GPL'ed or not, as long as the data is available and useable for all those that need to, whether they can afford a particular vendor's fees or not. Pushing such a thing wouldn't be easy, but I think it would be an effort that ultimately would be more fruitful than the advocacy of a particular open source solution in favour of another propriety solution that has the commercial an support resources available to appeal to an industry that would see IT as support and not as core to the business. This doesn't really help you, but I think this sort of information is a prime example of where freedom is very, very important -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software
Although people are the same everywhere, and diseases vary a bit between regions, medical software is country specific. 4 areas 1 Accounting and practice management. Each country has its own laws so accounting and tax vary in each country, and tax is changed each year, also each country has different health subsidies, insurance, and payments system. Medicare has 10s of thousands of item numbers and then there are private insurance rebates for these items as well, and they are unique to Australia, and are varied each year. 2 Lookup data used by Doctors. Each country has different allowed drugs, as regulatory bodies may not have allowed a drug, or have restricted it, or the government may restrict its subsidy, or the pharmaceutical company may not market in that country. this information changes regularly, in book form a new book each month. Various textbooks in electronic form, which are used from other countries, and vary every few years when a new edition comes out. 3 Recall and reminder systems for PAP smears, vaccinations, and to make sure abnormal results are seen and patients are recalled, and that it actually happens. 4 Actual notes written by the Doctor about an individual patient, and correspondence about that patience. This is the loose leaf folder on an individual patient that your doctor has. Currently only about 50% or less of doctors use electronic medical record. They are no faster and often slower than paper based systems. Hospitals are moving to electronic systems, but the primary medical record is still paper based. 1 hospital I work at, every time you hear thunder you know the network is down. Servers elsewhere, dodgy microwave link, no electronic ordering of tests or viewing of results, no writing of letters until the weather stabilises. Pen and paper still works, but old paper records get locked in some remote dungeon and later pulped after a relatively short period, ?3-4 years from last attendance. All hospitals in NSW are being moved onto the one electronic system that is slow and cumbersome for end users, poorly supported, and now will lock that company in as the only providor in NSW, as no competitor has local experience. What Doctors are paying for is the regular updates that incorporate the changes in all these external data that occur in a timely manner. One way they pay is by having the software subsidised by drug company advertising in the software in front of them on the cheaper system. An open data format would be good for financial records and patient information. An open source solution would need to be implemented and maintained in each country. this will be difficult for a small volunteer community and require they active involvement of a support company in that country. The purchasers will pay for a good solution, but most would want to see a working example, and hear about one from a buddy. There are plenty of conferences that can be used to showcase a good working example with a good support company, but till there is an imputus to change, like their current system breaks, there will be slow uptake. Ken Tony Sceats wrote: Exporting patient files, with the patients details (name, DOB, sex, Medicare number, etc.) from HCN's software is possible as they can be exported from the program as a delimited text file (patients.out), but the patient's billing history, etc. cannot be imported into another medical practice suite and the database isn't accessible without HCN's access (logged in with a valid logon). to me it sounds like what is needed is to transform the exported file into an XML schema which, if done in a meaningful way, could be fairly easily transformed into any desired format - that is, there's probably only a certain amount of different information types to worry about, and each type could be captured with appropriate markup and class definitions.. then it could be imported and/or exported into any db schema with a standardised parser Now, this type of software is the perfect candidate to be on an open platform (which some medical practices use Linux to store a flat-file database on), and with simple google seaches I've found some open-source Medical Billing/Appointment book practice management suites, but they were all on 0.x releases and unsuitable for the Australian medical billing system, with no mention to Medicare. Has anyone found anything for Australia; I'd be interested in following the development for a Linux/multiplatform open-source practice management suite suited to Australia's medical/Medicare standards. I completely agree, and would even go further to day that it is exactly this kind of information that needs to be freed.. but in terms of the software itself, I imagine that this sector is in a particularly lucrative market place. What I mean to say is that given the international climate around medical data (well, ok, the USA's medical system), the goodness and badness of software
[SLUG] Making a colour printer colour.
The printer is a Lexmark c532dn. It's installed to a computer running Feisty Fawn. I can send something to print and it will do so, unfortunately in greyscale only. Obviously it's the driver. Either it's not geared to accommodate colour, or it *is* geared, but I have to find some way of moving the gears. At present I'm using a generic driver called PCL6 because the printer doesn't appear on the Lexmark list that comes with CUPS. Can anyone advise, please? Regards, Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Strange behaviour of Samba3 with wireless clients
I have built my own wireless AP with Ubuntu 7.10 and an Atheros-based wireless card. My problem is that I can't access any of the Samba shares with my wireless clients...they can all search for the server, get prompted for a login then it just hangs and eventually times out. The same clients, when using their LAN ports to connect to the same server are able to do everything. I have experimented with the smb.conf file to include the wireless AP's device (ath0), subnet and even allowing it to bind on all interfaces. During those times, samba *does* bind on the device/device's IP when doing 'netstat -tln'. I have also checked my firewall settings. The rules I have for my local LAN on eth1 is identical to ath0 so I don't see a problem there. In fact I can do everything on my wireless clients except Samba. Here are some details of my setup: Ubuntu 7.10 server eth0 - ADSL modem; running pppoe eth1 - local LAN ath0 - wireless LAN madwifi drivers for Atheros chips hostapd to handle WPA2+PSK authentication iptables for IP filtering Am I missing something here? Thanks in advance. Carlo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] support enquiry
Good morning, I came across your website and need some help. We are a small Digital Signage company located in the Hills District of Sydney and require the services of a young IT person to help service our existing infrastructure that is totally Linux driven. Perhaps you could pass on my details to somebody in this area please. Bruce Fenwick 0419 691 753 Business Development Manager HYPERLINK http://www.adscreen.com.auwww.adscreen.com.au 1300 363 583 * Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.4/1309 - Release Date: 3/03/2008 6:50 PM -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Strange behaviour of Samba3 with wireless clients
Carlo, I presume you also setting up bridging between eth1 and ath0 as per http://www.linux.com/feature/55617 (and NOT to eth0) I would assume then you should have an IP address configured on device br0, and this is also the interface ARP entries of your clients appear (view with arp -a) If this is not the case we might need more info (not having played with Linux bridging for a while) Regards, Martin On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Carlo Sogono [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have built my own wireless AP with Ubuntu 7.10 and an Atheros-based wireless card. My problem is that I can't access any of the Samba shares with my wireless clients...they can all search for the server, get prompted for a login then it just hangs and eventually times out. The same clients, when using their LAN ports to connect to the same server are able to do everything. I have experimented with the smb.conf file to include the wireless AP's device (ath0), subnet and even allowing it to bind on all interfaces. During those times, samba *does* bind on the device/device's IP when doing 'netstat -tln'. I have also checked my firewall settings. The rules I have for my local LAN on eth1 is identical to ath0 so I don't see a problem there. In fact I can do everything on my wireless clients except Samba. Here are some details of my setup: Ubuntu 7.10 server eth0 - ADSL modem; running pppoe eth1 - local LAN ath0 - wireless LAN madwifi drivers for Atheros chips hostapd to handle WPA2+PSK authentication iptables for IP filtering Am I missing something here? Thanks in advance. Carlo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Regards, Martin Martin Visser -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Strange behaviour of Samba3 with wireless clients
Martin Visser wrote: Carlo, I presume you also setting up bridging between eth1 and ath0 as per http://www.linux.com/feature/55617 (and NOT to eth0) I would assume then you should have an IP address configured on device br0, and this is also the interface ARP entries of your clients appear (view with arp -a) If this is not the case we might need more info (not having played with Linux bridging for a while) I did not bridge my wifi device with my ethernet as I wanted to separate the subnets for both networks (for more control). Someone in the Samba list mentioned that it sounds like an MTU problem. Will play around with MTU settings when I get home... Carlo Regards, Martin On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Carlo Sogono [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have built my own wireless AP with Ubuntu 7.10 and an Atheros-based wireless card. My problem is that I can't access any of the Samba shares with my wireless clients...they can all search for the server, get prompted for a login then it just hangs and eventually times out. The same clients, when using their LAN ports to connect to the same server are able to do everything. I have experimented with the smb.conf file to include the wireless AP's device (ath0), subnet and even allowing it to bind on all interfaces. During those times, samba *does* bind on the device/device's IP when doing 'netstat -tln'. I have also checked my firewall settings. The rules I have for my local LAN on eth1 is identical to ath0 so I don't see a problem there. In fact I can do everything on my wireless clients except Samba. Here are some details of my setup: Ubuntu 7.10 server eth0 - ADSL modem; running pppoe eth1 - local LAN ath0 - wireless LAN madwifi drivers for Atheros chips hostapd to handle WPA2+PSK authentication iptables for IP filtering Am I missing something here? Thanks in advance. Carlo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Regards, Martin Martin Visser -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Lexmark c532dn
Get your driver here. http://downloads.lexmark.com/cgi-perl/downloads.cgi?ccs=229:1:0:558:0:0 Good luck. I had a Lexmark MPC and a colour jet. Lots of hassles to get them to work - had to solve many dependencies manually and install in correct order as I remember - a long time ago under Ubuntu 6.10. Now have an HP DEskjet which runs out of the box - cheaper cartridges too. Subject: [SLUG] Making a colour printer colour. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:29:15 +1100 (EST) To: slug@slug.org.au To: slug@slug.org.au The printer is a Lexmark It's installed to a computer running Feisty Fawn. I can send something to print and it will do so, unfortunately in greyscale only. Obviously it's the driver. Either it's not geared to accommodate colour, or it *is* geared, but I have to find some way of moving the gears. At present I'm using a generic driver called PCL6 because the printer doesn't appear on the Lexmark list that comes with CUPS. Can anyone advise, please? Regards, Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] support enquiry
Bruce Fenwick Adscreen wrote: I came across your website and need some help. We are a small Digital Signage company located in the Hills District of Sydney and require the services of a young IT person to help service our existing infrastructure that is totally Linux driven. young IT person? That smacks of ageism and discrimination. BTW: you may be looking for the Slug jobs list: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/jobs cheers rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor The purpose of censorware is not to Protect The Children, but to get some people elected and keep other people employed. -- Daniel Rutter -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] support enquiry
On 4/03/2008 3:43 PM, Rick Welykochy wrote: Bruce Fenwick Adscreen wrote: I came across your website and need some help. We are a small Digital Signage company located in the Hills District of Sydney and require the services of a young IT person to help service our existing infrastructure that is totally Linux driven. young IT person? That smacks of ageism and discrimination. Smacks of we will only pay peanuts :) N/ BTW: you may be looking for the Slug jobs list: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/jobs cheers rickw -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] support enquiry
Nigel Allen wrote: young IT person? That smacks of ageism and discrimination. Smacks of we will only pay peanuts :) Which raises a rather serious issue. The more experience and quality service one can bring to a project, the harder it is to get the job. Or so I am finding. Often companies opt for the young IT person, in an effort to save bucks. With all due respect to young geeks entering the workforce, there is a place for experience and wisdom in creating, implementing and deploying software projects (my specialty). The catch-22 is I don't work for peanuts. Anymore. The often touted response to this observation is that I should get into management. As if that is natural career growth path for someone talented in software design and development. Nothing of course could be further from reality. A good geek != a good manager. Heck, I even eschew project mgmt if I can avoid it. I find myself losing out out more and more jobs as I get older due to the almighty dollar and saving thereof. I've even chatted to some recruiters about this and they agree. No-one will admit it up front, but that is the reality of the job marketplace. I'm sure this also applies to many other sectors. The upside is that I can get by on doing less work for more pay. cheers rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor The purpose of censorware is not to Protect The Children, but to get some people elected and keep other people employed. -- Daniel Rutter -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] support enquiry
This one time, at band camp, Rick Welykochy wrote: The more experience and quality service one can bring to a project, the harder it is to get the job. Or so I am finding. Often companies opt for the young IT person, in an effort to save bucks. With all due respect to young geeks entering the workforce, there is a place for experience and wisdom in creating, implementing and deploying software projects (my specialty). The catch-22 is I don't work for peanuts. Anymore. The places that make the save a few bucks calculation aren't the kinds of places you'd want to work. It's the kind of short-termism that will mean the projects will be awful. The places you want to apply for use the word Senior in the job title. Senior doesn't mean old, just experienced. Smart places hire a Senior for every few Junior positions, so you've got some experienced peppered amongst the naive but keen. And every project needs a bitter old curmudgeon who's been there before, knows why it'll fail and will tell you after the fact that he knew it'd never work all along. If only to make the rest of us feel better about ourselves. The often touted response to this observation is that I should get into management. As if that is natural career growth path for someone talented in software design and development. Nothing of course could be further from reality. A good geek != a good manager. Heck, I even eschew project mgmt if I can avoid it. Certainly agree that management isn't always the best place to be for talented geeks. I find myself losing out out more and more jobs as I get older due to the almighty dollar and saving thereof. I've lost out on jobs because I've asked for what I'm worth and that's more than they're willing to pay. Though only rarely. I've got picky about which jobs I take. I wouldn't say it's the same thing as losing out to the almighty dollar. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ There's no 'I' in 'team'. But then there's no 'I' in 'useless smug colleague', either. And there's four in 'platitude-quoting idiot'. Go figure. - David Brent, The Office -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
