technically, i work for a "not-for-profit" organization (a rather large hospital).
for the systems that my group is in charge of we have 100 aix servers, and the application runs on approx 1100 pc's and x-terminals. all networked, btw. and i know there are thousands more.
personally, i don't think we act much like a nonprofit, but i don't know the laws.
when i called my mother last night and started complaining about the electoral college, she replied "after working as a poll watcher, i'm now completely FOR the electoral college"
apparantly, most people are too stupid to be allowed to vote. a few of her stories about people wanting to take ballots home and bring them back were pretty funny.
hospitals won't ever want to use open source software, and here's why: liability.
let's say that the hospital is using an open source documentation product. dumb-employee-who-thinks-he-is-god's-gift-to-codin g (everybody knows somebody like this) tweaks the code to make something faster. little does he realize that now the interface with the blood pressure monitor is now broken - bp is charting much lower than it actually is. the physician reads the chart, sees that the bp is too low, and prescribes medication based on that. the medication kills the patient.
the patient's wife will sue and who is liable? the hospital. for a lot of money, too.
if this happened in a close sourced prodct from a vendor, the vendor is now liable, not the hospital.
Close, but not entirely true. At the hospital where i work, at the end of shift, the nurses are pushing everybody out of the way to get on the bus. they've done their time and that is that!!
of course, they expect you (read: med records database admin) to do everything for them at a moments notice! exapmle: last night i got a page at 1 am stating "all terminals are down on the unit". after some investigation the problem was actually a single patient's record that was stuck because of the nightly updates. 5 minutes would have fixed the problem. this happens every night, and the nurses know it!
the west side isn't so bad. when you work in town, but can't afford inner loop places, its quite nice (close to town, hundreds of $$ less rent, and no stinky chemical plants!)
and a big ole:P on you! i'm near 30, small car, have clue (most of the time. and i know more people like me. it took a while to find them, tho.
if i were younger, i'd take u up on the geek house.
so i went to school wanting to fufill my life-long dream of being a marine biologist.....and did a little research and saw what they made, so i got my degree in microbiology.
people said "hey, you should get a cs degree!" errr, no thanks. i didn't like programming (still don't), and they don't have a sysadmin track. plus, those computer labs were NASTY! and the people in there were nasty too!!! i'll stick with the bacteria, thanks!
so reality has slapped me around, and i'm an admin now. still a girl too;)
and i kick ass! although my boyfriend kicks more ass, and he didn't even go to college.
it HAS to be compatible because ms doesn't make ANY network equipment!!!! ipv6 isn't just about os's, its about ROUTERS and SWITCHES and BRIDGES (oh my!) and the like. if cisco eqipment can't read ms's packets - its sol.
college was good for me. i learned a lot about people, and how much they suck (important stuff for the real world).
also, i got my degree in microbiology. strangely enough, the mental process i learned for that has helped me TREMENDOUSLY as a unix admin. and i got to play with bacteria n stuff:)
then again, i'm a girl who doesn't follow the norm: i *like* math and science. *shrug*
if we live in a "tyranny of the rich" then why do i have to pay so much in taxes?? why on earth would the rich people want to tax themselves more?
no, we live in a tyranny of the motivated. it doesn't matter how much money you personally have, if you are truly *motivated* you can find the means for your ends. even a dirt-poor person can drum up all kinds of support and funds for his cause, if he is motivated enough to do so.
you probably think i am being naive, but i have seen it happen.
ah-ha! so somebody else at Methodist reads slashdot!!!!!
i am one of the masochistic fools who works on the EMR at Methodist. we have approx 80 AIX boxes running Sunrise Clinical Documentation from Eclipsys. Its a good system sometimes: highly configurable, redundant data, good format. however, i don't think that Eclipsys tests their product very well. every time we install a "general availablility" update/patch/new version, things go horribly wrong. it might be because we are a rather large hospital, but i think that's no excuse.
rumor has it that eclipsys is dumping unix and moving to nt. who knows why.
if it hadn't been for that movie "Hackers", i never would have found out about this seedy open source underworld!!! if they hadn't glorified hackers, i wouldn't have gotten involved in any of this!!
so, what's the deal with the Wawa's? my co-worker and i were in Philly on a business trip and nearly bust a gut laughing at the name. the *best* part was the sign hanging in the window "Chocolate Covered Big Ed - $0.45!"
"hey, let's go get a big ed at the wawa!"
hahahahahhaha
well, maybe it was funnier after gutting & redoing all the cabling/computer systems in an office building.
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no wonder you are confused - you don't even know who your father is!
let's set a few things straigh for you, k?
HTH
The job market is bad enough as it is - I, for one, don't want any extra competition out there.
The last thing I need is my developers reading this book, then thinking they don't need me around any more!!
i'm running redhat 6.2 on a dell inspiron 8000 as my primary machine at the office - and i LOVE it!
i use it as our test server and my personal workstation. i can even take it with me and work from home when i get burnt out at the office.
you can...... wedge tv makes your palmos device a tv remote
technically, i work for a "not-for-profit" organization (a rather large hospital).
for the systems that my group is in charge of we have 100 aix servers, and the application runs on approx 1100 pc's and x-terminals. all networked, btw. and i know there are thousands more.
personally, i don't think we act much like a nonprofit, but i don't know the laws.
when i called my mother last night and started complaining about the electoral college, she replied "after working as a poll watcher, i'm now completely FOR the electoral college"
apparantly, most people are too stupid to be allowed to vote. a few of her stories about people wanting to take ballots home and bring them back were pretty funny.
yeah.....so too bad the Alamo was a BATTLE and not a WAR.
hospitals won't ever want to use open source software, and here's why: liability.
n g (everybody knows somebody like this) tweaks the code to make something faster. little does he realize that now the interface with the blood pressure monitor is now broken - bp is charting much lower than it actually is. the physician reads the chart, sees that the bp is too low, and prescribes medication based on that. the medication kills the patient.
let's say that the hospital is using an open source documentation product. dumb-employee-who-thinks-he-is-god's-gift-to-codi
the patient's wife will sue and who is liable? the hospital. for a lot of money, too.
if this happened in a close sourced prodct from a vendor, the vendor is now liable, not the hospital.
Close, but not entirely true. At the hospital where i work, at the end of shift, the nurses are pushing everybody out of the way to get on the bus. they've done their time and that is that!!
of course, they expect you (read: med records database admin) to do everything for them at a moments notice! exapmle: last night i got a page at 1 am stating "all terminals are down on the unit". after some investigation the problem was actually a single patient's record that was stuck because of the nightly updates. 5 minutes would have fixed the problem. this happens every night, and the nurses know it!
cloning yourself won't automatically allow you to live longer.
part of what makes you you are your experiences. you can't clone them.
you may be able to live a bit longer if you use body parts from your clone to replace your broken ones.
Sine!
Cosine!
Cosine!
Sine!
3 point 1 4 1 5 9!
the west side isn't so bad. when you work in town, but can't afford inner loop places, its quite nice (close to town, hundreds of $$ less rent, and no stinky chemical plants!)
:P on you! i'm near 30, small car, have clue (most of the time. and i know more people like me. it took a while to find them, tho.
and a big ole
if i were younger, i'd take u up on the geek house.
so i went to school wanting to fufill my life-long dream of being a marine biologist.....and did a little research and saw what they made, so i got my degree in microbiology.
;)
people said "hey, you should get a cs degree!" errr, no thanks. i didn't like programming (still don't), and they don't have a sysadmin track. plus, those computer labs were NASTY! and the people in there were nasty too!!! i'll stick with the bacteria, thanks!
so reality has slapped me around, and i'm an admin now. still a girl too
and i kick ass! although my boyfriend kicks more ass, and he didn't even go to college.
my point? its after 5, so i'm off to happy hour!
it HAS to be compatible because ms doesn't make ANY network equipment!!!! ipv6 isn't just about os's, its about ROUTERS and SWITCHES and BRIDGES (oh my!) and the like. if cisco eqipment can't read ms's packets - its sol.
HEY! that's how we can get rid of ms!
college was good for me. i learned a lot about people, and how much they suck (important stuff for the real world).
:)
also, i got my degree in microbiology. strangely enough, the mental process i learned for that has helped me TREMENDOUSLY as a unix admin. and i got to play with bacteria n stuff
then again, i'm a girl who doesn't follow the norm: i *like* math and science. *shrug*
if we live in a "tyranny of the rich" then why do i have to pay so much in taxes?? why on earth would the rich people want to tax themselves more?
no, we live in a tyranny of the motivated. it doesn't matter how much money you personally have, if you are truly *motivated* you can find the means for your ends. even a dirt-poor person can drum up all kinds of support and funds for his cause, if he is motivated enough to do so.
you probably think i am being naive, but i have seen it happen.
ah-ha! so somebody else at Methodist reads slashdot!!!!!
i am one of the masochistic fools who works on the EMR at Methodist. we have approx 80 AIX boxes running Sunrise Clinical Documentation from Eclipsys. Its a good system sometimes: highly configurable, redundant data, good format. however, i don't think that Eclipsys tests their product very well. every time we install a "general availablility" update/patch/new version, things go horribly wrong. it might be because we are a rather large hospital, but i think that's no excuse.
rumor has it that eclipsys is dumping unix and moving to nt. who knows why.
its all their fault!!!
if it hadn't been for that movie "Hackers", i never would have found out about this seedy open source underworld!!! if they hadn't glorified hackers, i wouldn't have gotten involved in any of this!!
I'LL SUE!!
anything longer THAN a one paragraph slashdot story!
1)my office is noisy
2)sometimes i talk on the phone/to co-workers while computing
3)sometimes i like to play music & sing along while computing
etc etc etc
holy crap!! you work(ed) for the same hospital that i do, don't you?!?!?!
or is it just a thing that nurses REFUSE to replace their own printer paper?
-Stacey
who wears a jacket all the time? actually, my boyfriend does (correction: not in the summer). i call it his "security jacket", like his old blankie.
hello, what about Progress?
you can love your data + the transactions + not have to shell out so much green.
so, what's the deal with the Wawa's? my co-worker and i were in Philly on a business trip and nearly bust a gut laughing at the name. the *best* part was the sign hanging in the window "Chocolate Covered Big Ed - $0.45!"
"hey, let's go get a big ed at the wawa!"
hahahahahhaha
well, maybe it was funnier after gutting & redoing all the cabling/computer systems in an office building.
yeah but......they can do all the keyword searches they want out there - since NOBODY KNOWS HOW TO SPELL ANYMORE they'll never pick anything up!!!