Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed on the go - take the EMR with you

[Sebastian Hilbert]

On Freitag 12 September 2008, you wrote:
> On 12-Sep-08, at 4:02 AM, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> > Disclaimer: Do not use it for anything else but testing when
> > installing on
> > your local PC. Once you decide to use GNUmed on your PC we
> > recommend a full
> > installation as described over at wiki.gnumed.de
>
> I am just wondering about the disclaimer. The hospital in which I
> work is huge and sometimes I am even having to be at the other
> hospital in town. This means I might be located 45 minutes from my
> office and unless I bring my laptop everywhere (and, even then, there
> are some restrictions in the hospitals when policy limits my laptop
> usage) that I need some way to run GNUmed off desktop machines.
>
> It appears that my options would be:
>
> 1) use LiveCD... but this is likely to be (a) very slow and (b) I am
> not sure how I could modify the config file inside the iso (if it
> would even be possible) in order to be able to connect to anything
> other than the pre-installed on-CD database or the public database
>
Live-CD is not suitable.

> 2) boot from portable device or, if a boot from the hospital pc would
> remain faster, *run from* the portable device.
>
no booting from USB. Running from USB in a running Windows.


> I continue to need some way to connect from a machine on which I have
> no "install" privileges. So I am only wondering at the disclaimer to
> run from portable device only for testing. If it is a matter of
> speed... well... I understand the portable devices to all be
> gradually speeding up. I am willing to tolerate slowness for short
> periods... we have an expression in English (maybe other languages)
> "beggars can't be choosers".
>
Don't worry it is fast. All I meant is that it might be tempting to run a 
portable installation at the office because no installation is required. This 
might become unpredictable when upgrades are due. I not eager to troubleshoot 
those non-installed versions a couple versions down the road.

So I am fine with running from USB when doing just that but would like users 
to refrain from using portable installations on local PCs to get around the 
installation issues.

This might change and gnumed is quite capable of provinding info on the 
platform and version to troubleshoot. For the time being I jotted down the 
disclaimer. Experienced users can safely ignore it :-)

> Is it a question of maintainability? In other words the person who
> depends on the portable device will be stuck unable to use properly
> updatable clients?

Nah. It will always be possible to update. I have taken care of that. I just 
don't want to go down that road (yet) but it most likely won't be a problem 
at all.


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Sebastian Hilbert 
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