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I will die a happy man.
That is all.
I had a coworker tell me a time he had to put on scrubs and go reset an access point in the middle of open heart surgery, and the guy's life depended on it.
I don't need that kind of stress in IT.
These guys seem to have taken the extreme approach to balancing usability with security. You can probably guess which end.
government regulations may have forced them to lean to the extreme security side
Nah, just made them paranoid. Their security measures are FAR beyond any of my other 1500+ clients...Quote:
Originally Posted by aahorn
That sort of paranoia is everywhere. I spoke with a counterpart at a library district who said their printer/fax/copier/scanning multifunction machines are not on the network, because it would be too much of a security risk. So the only thing library patrons can do is make copies.
Kind of a big hit to usability, as well as a waste of money, just to avoid an imaginary risk.
Yeah. The "risk" that lots of folks believe exists is mostly in their head, while they ignore the REAL risks to their system.
You called? Sys Admin for two hospital systems. I started in Biomed but had to fully cross over and now get to do both while our normal IT guys make the same but have 1/2 to worry about.Quote:
Originally Posted by reno316
HL7 is HL7 right?[Bang][LOL][Beer] BTW, if ya think normal medical systems are fun do it in a DOD environment.
It's not so much an HL7 issue as it is a "No, we won't re-write our software to fit your security policy. Open the damn port between the two servers if you want your $100,000 + software to work. If you don't, it won't work. I don't care, since we've already cashed your check..."Quote:
Originally Posted by jerrymrc
[Beer]
I feel for ya, I haven't touched Hospital/Medical systems, but I work in the financial network business...
Security is paramount, reliablity/redundancy/diversity is critical to them, and Latency is also their bread and butter (if they're a HFT)
if the system is that critical, it should have redundancy and monitoring built in, so you don't start a surgery without a backup in place & known to be functioning... a backup is only good if you KNOW it's working- so you have to monitor it just as much as the primary path.
When all the fun started in 2002 or so for me it was the issue of the patches and updates being way faster than the MFG's.Quote:
Originally Posted by reno316
Once company's started using "winders" OS then every update had to be approved not to interfere with the program. FDA issues made the normal medical software environment obsolete compared to how fast the IT world was moving. I remember being told that if a patch was not installed by next week that one of my servers would be in the hallway.
It has got somewhat better but entertaining none the less. I had a company ask last year for access and I told them while this could be done that it would be cheaper and faster to fly a guy out from FL to look at it firsthand.
The big issue is Doctors see the accessibility that some company's push and when you tell them that no, you can't just look at it from anywhere because of the security issues they just get mad. This is the main reason I want to kill salespeople sometimes. [Coffee]
I have to go to New York to install a second redundant fiber circuit in our remote office that holds 8 f'n sales people. The T1 we gave them just wasn't enough for their Pandora and YouTube. Of course they want it active/active too and it terminates in a firewall. I have a week to come up with some policy based routing that will work for them. Can't wait... Even better is that the company is making me pay for it all and expense it when I get back.
50 some odd new laptops arrived today. The fun begins for me. 200+ Dell desktops on the way. I've got job security through September I believe. Not Medical, but just as bad probably.
http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/...0515135750.jpg
^ Dang. Have fun configuring all of those
Our CEO just went out and bought Macs for all the C level execs. It's created quite the fuss. Our NAS doesn't play nice with them.
That reminds me, I need to transfer about 5 gigs of Ghost images through the network tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trigg3r Happy
Our end of year catch up - many systems are behind in our replacement process. This is only a partial of the shipment. I believe agency wide we ordered around 500 laptops and 1000 desktops.
Not looking forward to all the work. I've got one of the largest shipments and locations to handle.
Thankfully several of our key systems don't work on the MAC OS. Whew. Otherwise we'd be doing some switching over too probably.Quote:
Originally Posted by cfortune
Ipad's are driving us nuts enough.
Ahh, so you use an image for the config. that ought to save some timeQuote:
Originally Posted by gnihcraes
We gave our help desk guy a lab where he has his own isolated PXE server and network. He can PXE boot from an image to 24 laptops at once.
There's an old joke in my department about Sales and Implementation. One person from each team were hiking together in the mountains, and got stranded by a freak snow storm. They were cold, hungry, freezing... when the Sales Dude struck on the idea: "Let's kill a bear! Lots of meat, warm fur... We can do it!"Quote:
Originally Posted by jerrymrc
So presently the Implementation Guy s building a roaring fire to cook the bear, when the Sales Dude comes running full speed into camp, bear hot on his heels, and screaming to Implementation "Open the tent! Open the tent!!"
Opened the tent, Sales dives through, zips the back flap of the tent, zip the front of the tent, and the Sales Dude takes a deep breath, hucks the Implementation Dude on the shoulder and says...
"OK, you take it from here. I'm going to find us another bear..."
[ROFL1][ROFL1][ROFL2][ROFL2][Beer]
Software QA Motto: It'll compile...Ship it!
Yep, hard to do for 100 locations state wide. Drop ship from vendor to those locations. Too much hassle trying to PXE 1000 systems in one building and then re-distribute. $$ in time and labor to get them back out the door to those locations sucks. unbox, rebox, ship or deliver. Physical storage becomes an issue too. Hard to secure 1000 laptops and 1000 desktops in one location.Quote:
Originally Posted by cfortune
Easier to download an image over night and then you can do them locally without the drain on the network. (one system at a time while doing other daily functions)
When did companies start needing no interest loans from it's employees? My company does the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by cfortune
We have two Macs on our staff network. The OSX Lion one will not play right with Active Directory. The Snow Leopard one is fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by gnihcraes
Apple has managed to un-fix something they fixed in 2005 or so. Good job.
The best part? "There is no help desk at Apple that deals with AD integration problems", that's a direct quote from the Apple business support guy. He sent me 4 white papers instead.
My interest in Apple has been a nice bell curve over the years. Peaked when they switched to Intel. Sharp decline ever since.