EMR and Healthcare – Ergonomics

Some time ago I was involved in a huge electronic medical records (EMR) roll-out that was project managed in such a way as to create evaluation teams with physician involvement.  This was a excellent way to evaluate all of the aspects of the EMR and get buy-in from the end customers who were going to

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Cobbler, Kickstarts, and the Fedora tree

Having built a fully functional PXE B&B (“boot-and-build”) system with Cobbler + Puppet, it was surprising to learn that Fedora 16 just would not load from the same old process.  After much frustration and digging, it appears that from Fedora 15 to Fedora 16, an additional boot-time kernel argument became required in order to be

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