Re: [Hardhats-members] The VA ftp site is back up

2005-10-05 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
The sound of zero hands clapping? === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] "A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers." -- Benjamin Disraeli On Oct 5, 2005, at 7:18 PM, David Sommers wrote: Actually, for you, it never existed. David Sommers, Architect | Dialog

RE: [Hardhats-members] The VA ftp site is back up

2005-10-05 Thread David Sommers
Actually, for you, it never existed. David Sommers, Architect | Dialog Medical -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Woodhouse Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 11:16 AM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Hardhats-

RE: [Hardhats-members] Linus Torvalds on specifications

2005-10-05 Thread Roy Gaber
Specs = building blocks = foundation = happy coders -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ruben Safir Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 9:06 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Linus Torvalds on specifica

Re: [Hardhats-members] Linus Torvalds on specifications

2005-10-05 Thread Ruben Safir
Evidently Linus thinks so Ruben On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 17:38 -0700, Gregory Woodhouse wrote: > Do you mean there are other kinds of projects? > > === > Gregory Woodhouse > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but > they are not rationally unders

Re: [Hardhats-members] Linus Torvalds on specifications

2005-10-05 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Do you mean there are other kinds of projects? === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood." --Albert Einstein On Oct 5, 2005, at 5:05 PM, Ruben Safir wrote: Linus us not a god for sure. An

[Hardhats-members] Fwd: Dr. Brailer and IHE

2005-10-05 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
An interesting on DICOM and imaging software... ===Gregory Woodhouse[EMAIL PROTECTED]"One must act on what has not yet happened."--Lao Tzu Begin forwarded message:From: Jeff Szuhay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: October 5, 2005 3:39:54 PM PDTTo: Science & Technology <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Dr. Braile

Re: [Hardhats-members] Linus Torvalds on specifications

2005-10-05 Thread Ruben Safir
Linus us not a god for sure. And he has obviously never dealt with a client who keeps changing specs in the middle of a project but refuses to pay you. Blah Linus can't figure out what DRM is or the meaning of Free SOftware either. Ruben On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 07:48:01PM -0400, Roy Gab

RE: [Hardhats-members] Linus Torvalds on specifications

2005-10-05 Thread Roy Gaber
Gotta love Linus, he knows how to get the blood boiling. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Woodhouse Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 5:15 PM To: Hardhats Subject: [Hardhats-members] Linus Torvalds on specifications >From today's ACM T

Re: [Hardhats-members] The VA ftp site is back up

2005-10-05 Thread Frederick D. S. Marshall
Dear Nancy, Thanks for the clarification. I ran into the problem this morning while trying to download patches for VistA-Office EHR. Like Larry, I thought it was just me. Yours truly, Rick LD 'Gus' Landis wrote: Nancy, Good... I thought it was me... Now for some more "last minute packin

[Hardhats-members] Future of component based architectures?

2005-10-05 Thread Greg Woodhouse
Again, from today's ACM Tech News: "A Conversation With Roger Sessions and Terry Coatta" Queue (09/05) Vol. 3, No. 7; Allman, Eric In a discussion moderated by Sendmail CTO Eric Allman, ObjectWatch CEO Roger Sessions and Silicon Chalk VP Terry Coatta converse in depth about objects, components, a

[Hardhats-members] Linus Torvalds on specifications

2005-10-05 Thread Greg Woodhouse
>From today's ACM Tech News (note that I do not necessarily agree): "Linus Torvalds Outburst Sparks Fierce Debate: Does Open Source Software Need Specs?" SYS-CON (10/03/05) In a recent posting on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, Linus Torvalds blasted specs as a method for developing software, clai

Re: [Hardhats-members] The VA ftp site is back up

2005-10-05 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
Nancy, Good... I thought it was me... Now for some more "last minute packing" before I leave on the cruise!!! Chees, --ldl On 10/5/05, Greg Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, since I haven't tried connecting, it is not possible for me to > have had trouble connecting. Does it follow

Re: [Hardhats-members] Development Study: Haste Makes Waste

2005-10-05 Thread Ruben Safir
> > Clearly, large software projects can be daunting, and clearly it is not > enough simply to know a language and a DBMS. There is a LOT more that > goes into making projects succeed. Sadly, though, in softwre > engineering, we do not take the technical side of the discipline nearly > as serious

Re: [Hardhats-members] Development Study: Haste Makes Waste

2005-10-05 Thread Greg Woodhouse
Exactly. My complaint was not that there were books (even many books) about process in the Software Engineering section, but that there was essentially nothing else. I also found it quite tellintg that there was a separate section named Programming. Do you see separate sections for electrical engin

Re: [Hardhats-members] Development Study: Haste Makes Waste

2005-10-05 Thread A. Forrey
My point is that using information about "proces" can be useful but it is never a panacea but too many times folks like to skip over aspects that they should think about, even if they'd like to ignore it. THOUGHT should never be ignored but is often provoked by reminders. No need to belabor tha

Re: [Hardhats-members] Development Study: Haste Makes Waste

2005-10-05 Thread Greg Woodhouse
"Process" isn't the problem, so much as the degree to which process consumes so much of our time and energy. I fear that we tend to think that the right process will somehow prove a panacea -- or we become so focused on process that tend to neglect other aspects, well, of the activity of software d

Re: [Hardhats-members] Process and Engineering (was: Haste Makes Waste)

2005-10-05 Thread Greg Woodhouse
Responding to yourself may be bad form, but I'll indulge anyway... I should add that there are many more opportunities to apply engineering (not process) principles to software development than we often acknowledge. I don't mean to sound like a broken record (at least not too much!) but one of the

Re: [Hardhats-members] Development Study: Haste Makes Waste

2005-10-05 Thread A. Forrey
My take on this is that The "Process" is a guide not a catechism and the pre-defined set of steps, documents and stages is a reminder of what may need to be considered and developed to facilitate the "Work". In the M/VistA environment this may be different than that in other work settings. The

[Hardhats-members] Process and Engineering (was: Haste Makes Waste)

2005-10-05 Thread Greg Woodhouse
That's been my experience, too. What I find especially telling is that my local Barnes and Noble has two section: one, labelled "Programming" has mostly books about, well, programming; another, labelled "Software Engineering" has mostly books about process. I agree with Kevin that software enginee

Re: [Hardhats-members] Development Study: Haste Makes Waste

2005-10-05 Thread Larry Andreassen
Comparing small and large team projects I've been involved with...   Small teams...  "Do the work..." Large teams...  "Do the process..."   By process I mean a pre-defined set of steps, documents and stages.  And, often these stages do not fit naturally with the work.   On 10/5/05, Kevin Toppenberg

Re: [Hardhats-members] ZTMON reports RUN NODE wrong type in taskman site paramaters

2005-10-05 Thread whitten
I agree with Nancy that this looks like a simple Uppercase vs Lowercase issue. I highlighted the place below where the differences are shown David > > ^ZTMON reports the following configuration error after starting taskman > with ^ZTMB. > > Checking Taskman. Current $H=60178,11643 (Oc

Re: [Hardhats-members] ZTMON reports RUN NODE wrong type in taskman site paramaters

2005-10-05 Thread Greg Woodhouse
Well, since that's the .01 field, I guess you couldn't very well leave it out! --- Nancy Anthracite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you want this thing to run, I sure think so. I have spent a lot > of time > worrying over setting those things right if they don't matter! > > > On Wednesday 05

RE: [Hardhats-members] Station Numbers for institutions in VOE

2005-10-05 Thread Greg Woodhouse
There is a LOT that cannot be done in VistA without a station number. For example, there is little (if anything!) that can be done in IFCAP without a station number. --- Robert DeWayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Station numbers are a VA issue, we did not have time to eliminate > this > code for

Re: [Hardhats-members] ZTMON reports RUN NODE wrong type in taskman site paramaters

2005-10-05 Thread Nancy Anthracite
If you want this thing to run, I sure think so. I have spent a lot of time worrying over setting those things right if they don't matter! On Wednesday 05 October 2005 11:13 am, Greg Woodhouse wrote: Do you even need a BOX-VOLUME pair or a GENERAL PROCESSOR? --- Nancy Anthracite <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Hardhats-members] The VA ftp site is back up

2005-10-05 Thread Greg Woodhouse
Well, since I haven't tried connecting, it is not possible for me to have had trouble connecting. Does it follow that (for me) it is still down? --- Nancy Anthracite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those of you who may have had trouble connecting, it is up again. > -- > Nancy Anthracite > =

Re: [Hardhats-members] ZTMON reports RUN NODE wrong type in taskman site paramaters

2005-10-05 Thread Greg Woodhouse
Do you even need a BOX-VOLUME pair or a GENERAL PROCESSOR? --- Nancy Anthracite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure, but you may need to add at least one submanager. > > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 09:44 am, Nancy Anthracite wrote: > What is the output from your D GETENV^%ZOSV W Y ? Be v

[Hardhats-members] The VA ftp site is back up

2005-10-05 Thread Nancy Anthracite
For those of you who may have had trouble connecting, it is up again. -- Nancy Anthracite --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Imaging and Image filetypes

2005-10-05 Thread rgaber
My guess is that the developers chose .ABS because at the time of development that was most likely the thumbnail image format of choice. - Original Message - From: Kevin Toppenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2005 4:54 am Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Imaging a

[Hardhats-members] Newbie installation

2005-10-05 Thread Michael Spraggins
Title: Newbie installation     Using Cache install procedure via http://openforum.worldvista.org/~forum/index.php?title=Installation_How_To_Vista/Cache_for_Windows#Install_Cache. I'm step# 31 and I recieve the following error when checking compile status NEWMAC    Error:NewMac+8^%

Re: [Hardhats-members] Station Numbers for institutions in VOE

2005-10-05 Thread Nancy Anthracite
Try this from the installation instructions on the Hardhats web site, step 78. If you are planning to use the VistA applications such as Registration, Scheduling etc. you need to add new Institution to the INSTITUTION File. Go back to the VISTA> prompt and "SET XUMF=1" then "D Q^DI". Select Opti

Re: [Hardhats-members] ZTMON reports RUN NODE wrong type in taskman site paramaters

2005-10-05 Thread Nancy Anthracite
I'm not sure, but you may need to add at least one submanager. On Wednesday 05 October 2005 09:44 am, Nancy Anthracite wrote: What is the output from your D GETENV^%ZOSV W Y ? Be very sure the upper-lower case in the name of your computer is correct when you compare that to what you get with host

[Hardhats-members] ZTMON reports RUN NODE wrong type in taskman site paramaters

2005-10-05 Thread gm
^ZTMON reports the following configuration error after starting taskman with ^ZTMB. Checking Taskman. Current $H=60178,11643 (Oct 05, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:14:03) RUN NODE=ROU:ov0 is the wrong type in taskman site paramet ers. (ROU:ov0 is the wrong type in taskman site para

Re: [Hardhats-members] ZTMON reports RUN NODE wrong type in taskman site paramaters

2005-10-05 Thread Nancy Anthracite
What is the output from your D GETENV^%ZOSV W Y ? Be very sure the upper-lower case in the name of your computer is correct when you compare that to what you get with hostname -s and what you have entered. On Wednesday 05 October 2005 04:12 am, gm wrote: ^ZTMON reports the following configura

RE: [Hardhats-members] Station Numbers for institutions in VOE

2005-10-05 Thread Robert DeWayne
Station numbers are a VA issue, we did not have time to eliminate this code for VOE.  This is a known issue.  Why do you need a station number for VOE?   Robert DeWayne Senior Consultant Daou Systems, Inc. P: (317) 616-4745  C:(317) 727-7477 www.daou.com   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mail

[Hardhats-members] ZTMON reports RUN NODE wrong type in taskman site paramaters

2005-10-05 Thread gm
^ZTMON reports the following configuration error after starting taskman with ^ZTMB. Checking Taskman. Current $H=60178,11643 (Oct 05, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:14:03) RUN NODE=ROU:ov0 is the wrong type in taskman site paramet ers. (ROU:ov0 is the wrong type in taskman site par

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Imaging and Image filetypes

2005-10-05 Thread John Leo
Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Hmmm. Why did someone choose THAT format? It was probably produced by one of the devices or capture cards used. I don't think I have code that outputs in TGA format. So I think I will not upload .ABS thumbnails. TGA's just another RLE format. Specs, viewers and con

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Imaging and Image filetypes

2005-10-05 Thread Nancy Anthracite
Are you feeling ambitious? http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/tga/ And maybe this freeware would help? http://www.firmtools.com/products/shellextension/ On Wednesday 05 October 2005 04:54 am, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Hmmm. Why did someone choose THAT format? I don't think I have

[Hardhats-members] Station Numbers for institutions in VOE

2005-10-05 Thread Usha
Hi   I am not able to assign a station number to a newly created institution in VOE.   EHR>D Q^DI  VA FileMan 22.0  Select OPTION: 1  ENTER OR EDIT FILE ENTRIES   INPUT TO WHAT FILE: INSTITUTION//EDIT WHICH FIELD: ALL// STATION NUMBERTHEN EDIT FIELD:  Select INSTITUTION NAME: SOFTWARE SERV

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Imaging and Image filetypes

2005-10-05 Thread Todd Berman
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 04:54 -0400, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: > Hmmm. Why did someone choose THAT format? > > I don't think I have code that outputs in TGA format. So I think I > will not upload .ABS thumbnails. If the only client that you are going to use for this is your custom CPRS or whatever,

Re: [Hardhats-members] Development Study: Haste Makes Waste

2005-10-05 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
>From an outsider, it seems that more manpower WOULD be better, within reason. It seems to me that creating software should be somewhat similar to any other engineering project. My hospital has been adding a new wing for the last year or so, and it certainly wouldn't have gone up faster if there

Re: [Hardhats-members] CPRS and New patient registration

2005-10-05 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Jim, This sounds like you are 90% of the way there. The only think I would want to add would the ability to put some instructions to the user on the screen, and maybe a header that says something like "new patient registration". There might also be an issue regarding when adding a new patient wi

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Imaging and Image filetypes

2005-10-05 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Hmmm. Why did someone choose THAT format? I don't think I have code that outputs in TGA format. So I think I will not upload .ABS thumbnails. Thanks Kevin On 10/4/05, Roy Gaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That would be TGA Kevin. They are TGA derivatives. > > -Original Message- > From

Re: [Hardhats-members] What will receive the incoming mails?

2005-10-05 Thread Usha
Or can we drop the idea of maildrop and change the virtual_transport value ?   virtual_transport = smtp:localhost:25   The xinetd.d directory will contain a file "mailman" which contains the following   service mailman { port = 25 socket_type = stream protocol = ? wait = ? user = vista passen