Dr Brahma Balakrishnan wrote:
> Hello Martyn,
> Malaysia is a developing countryand
> we make cars (PROTON)and have (well
> had ) the world's tallest
> building(Petronas Twin Towers).
>
> Medicine in Malaysia is coming of
> age and we are very dependant of
> training in UK,US & any other
> technically advanced country.
>
...and I am very much looking forward to speaking at the OSHCA (Open-Source
Health Care Alliance) conference there shortly.
......which is a _very_ advanced thing for Malaysia to host (not my
speaking, which is mediocre at best, but the development of open-source
software for health care).
Jel
(who keeps all patient notes on an open-source electronic medical record)
(and who runs Ubuntu Linux on this laptop and other machines - with no
maintenance required (cf Windoze).
I recently posted the following, elsewhere:
Hi all
I put Beryl on my Ubuntu Linux machine in my consulting room.
It has 4 or 8 desktops that form a rotating cube (or cube-octagon!).
Switching between desktops is achieve with Ctrl-Alt-Forward or Back arrow -
the cube then rotates to the next desktop (very cool to watch :-)
I was using a timed screensaver to hide the screen from casual prying eyes
eg the scheduler from a patient sitting in my room unattended for a minute.
Now I just use the multiple desktops to achieve the same thing - a quick
Ctrl-Alt-Forward arrow and the desktop with OSCAR on it is no longer visible.
And the patients think I am rather clever with the machine (which is a good
thing because my medicine is unlikely to impress them ;-)
Take a look at Beryl at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw78IIEbzHs
or a humourous one at
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4471114863140451531
***this last one is a _must see_ - a head to head demo of MS Vista vs
Ubuntu with Beryl***
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/434675/windows_vista_aero_vs_linux_ubuntu_beryl/
....the music would not be my choice - but hang on in there until the end
because the Summary bit is a CNN clip that is worth seeing****
You can compare the price too....
VISTA - whatever MS charge for it, plus a computer with enough grunt to run it.
Ubuntu and Beryl - free. My workstation has 512 MB of RAM, and a cheapo
video card for running the graphics.
Just some Sunday fun.
If you want to try Ubuntu Linux - got http://www.ubuntu.com - and download
v 6.10 - put it on a CD and install it (or order a CD - I think they don't
charge!). During the install you can leave your windows installation in
place and just choose to use some of the remaining hard disk space for the
Ubuntu.
Regards all
Jel
PS Installing Windows XP was over an hour and didn't recognise my wireless
(over an hour on the phone to Dell to try to sort it out. The Ubuntu CD
recognised everything and it all just worked (sound, video, wireless,
network etc etc - Linux had 'arrived' some years ago - but now it is
really ready for non-tech users)
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