That Needle In The Haystack

There are times in technology when something goes wrong.  It happens.  It’s the cost of progress. It can be at lot of fun finding what caused things to go wrong and then fixing it. Follow this trip, for instance.  Hopefully it helps someone else with google hosted addresses which forward to an internal mailing list

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Fedora 18 “Spherical Cow” – What happened here?

[EDIT: Further examination revealed that a majority of the problems experienced were related to the glibc + kernel included with Fedora 18 and the updated glibc+kernel for Fedora 17.  The result was the same in both situations: unstable VIA and IVTV drivers.]   Fedora 18 has the release name “Spherical Cow”.  It should probably be

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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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