Accuracy??

Hi,

The arrogance of these people never fails to amaze and frighten me

There is still NO check of the accuracy of the data in your SCR. These people assume that what is entered is correct, I can assure you that it is not!

Some time ago my wife paid a visit to a consultant for a gynecological procedure, the consultant read my wife's SCR, and asked, "Why are you here for this procedure, you have already had a hysterectomy?" My wife never had one, so we asked and were eventually allowed to check our SC'R's.

We each found 10 - 12 major errors in the data, due to bad data entry and data entered on our records for the completely wrong person. Important results of tests and treatments at hospitals were never added to the SCR's

Some of the entries and omissions could have been extremely dangerous for us if medical action was taken only on the basis of the records, i.e. if we were not in a state to make a verbal presentation. My wife has an extreme allergy to penicillin, it is known at our GP's, it is written in her notes, but it was missing from her SCR.

When I checked the process and specifications of the SCR. I found that there are NO requirements for checks of data accuracy. There are a suite of diagnostics, however they only check that the codes used in the SCR are valid codes for use on an SCR.

I attempted to get our practice manager to run a sample test, to try to establish the size of the problem, i.e. to invite a group of patients to check their SCR's with the help of their doctor, but she was not willing to do this.

I also communicated my concerns to our NH trust IT manager, but she was also unhelpful, I do not think she understands what a data base is and how to ensure that it is accurate.

Needless to say my wife and I opted out of the SCR scheme, as one is allowed to do!

regards

Patrick

FoxSat can have ADDED functionality!

Re the FOXSAT DVR.

One advantage you neglected to mention is the firmware is Linux and has been used to implement a vast range of extremely useful addons:-

http://www.avforums.com/forums/freesat/1517610-media-file-server-bundle-foxsat-hdr-release-4-0-a.html

""A fully functioning web interface for the Foxsat HDR.

A package management system with web based repository for the downloading and updating of applications.

This can be accessed both from the web interface and from the command line.

A service management system to display status of custom applications, start or stop them, and disable/enable boot-time autostart.

Again, this is accessible from the web interface and the command line. ""

Applications allow use of various streaming media servers to allow playing recordings on other media devices, uploading recordings from the Foxsat to your PC, downloading media files to play on your Foxsat, editing and setting recording times from anywhere in the world on a PC and more!!

These added abilities makes the Foxsat stand out head and shoulders above all other FreeSat devices!

cheers

P

Here's a song about PDP10's and TECO part 1

You see, it all started about two incompatible monitor versions ago,

about two months ago on a Tuesday, when my friend and I SUPDUP'd over

to MIT-OZ to pick up some hackers to go out for a Chinese dinner. But

AI hackers don't live on MIT-OZ, they live on various assorted lispms

and such, and seeing as and how they never log in except via the file

server, they hadn't gotten around to doing filesystem garbage

collection for a long time.

We got over there, saw 600 pages free, 10000 pages in use on a 5 pack

PS:, and decided it would be a friendly gesture to run CHECKD for them

and try to reclaim some of that lost space. So we reloaded the system

with the floppies and the switch registers and other implements of

destruction, and answered "Y" to RUN CHECKD?

But when we got the system up and tried to release all the lost pages

there was a loud beeping and a big message flashed up on our screen

saying:

PERMISSION DENIED BY ACJ

Well, we'd never heard of a version of ACJ that would let you go into

MDDT from ANONYMOUS but not run CHECKD, and so, with tears in our

eyes, we headed off over the Chaosnet looking for a filesystem with

enough free pages to write out the LOST-PAGES.BIN file. Didn't find

one...

Until we got to XX-11, and at the other end of XX-11 was another MIT

Twenex, and in PS:<OPERATOR> on that MIT Twenex was another

LOST-PAGES.BIN file. And we decided that one big LOST-PAGES.BIN file

was better than two little LOST-PAGES.BIN file, and rather than page

that one in we thought we'd write ours out. So that's what we did.

Went back to OZ, found some hackers and went out for a Chinese dinner

that couldn't be beat, and didn't get up until the next morning when

we got a SEND from Ann Marie Finn. She said, "Kid, we found you

initials in SIXBIT in the right half of a POPJ at the end of a two

megaword core dump full of garbage, just wanted to know if you had any

information about it". And I said, "Yes ma'am Ann Marie, I cannot tell

a lie, I put that XUNAME into that halfword".

After talking back and forth with Ann for about 45 messages we arrived

at the truth of the matter and Ann said that we had to go rebuild the

bittable and we also had to come down and talk to her in room

NE43-501. Now friends, there was only one of two things that Ann

could of done with us down at room 501, and the first one was that she

could have hired us on the spot for actually knowing enough about

Twenex to screw it up that badly, which wasn't very likely and we

didn't expect it, and the other was that she could have bawled us out

and told us never to be seen hacking filesystems again, which was what

we expected. But when we got to room 501 we discovered that there was

a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon, and we was both

immediately de-wheeled. CD%DIR'ed. And I said "Ann, I don't think I

can rebuild the bittable with this here FILES-ONLY bit set." And she

said "XOFF, kid, get into this UDP packet" and that's what we did and

rode up to the square bracket asciz slash scene of the crime slash

close square bracket.

Now friends, I want to tell you about the ninth floor of building NE43

where this happened. They got three KL10s, 24 LISPMs, and about 32

VAXen running 4.2 unix. But when we got to the square bracket asciz

slash scene of the crime slash close square bracket there was five

twenex hackers past and present, this being the biggest lossage yet by

an RMS clone and everybody wanted to get in their suggestion for a new

system daemon that would have kept it from ever having happened in the

first place. And they was using up all kinds of debugging equipment

that they had lying around on V3A SWSKIT tapes. They were doing DSs,

MONRDs, and RSTRSHs, and they made 27000 pages of core dumps and photo

files on an RP06 with comments and -READ-.-THIS- files to be used as

evidence against us.

After the ordeal, Ann took us back downstairs and left us with the CLU

hackers. She said "Kid, I'm gonna leave you with the CLU hackers. I

want your jsys manual and your ROLM DTI". I said "Ann, I can

understand your wanting my jsys manual so I won't remind the CLU

hackers of grody things like operating systems, but what do you want

my DTI for?" and she said "Kid, we don't want any VTS errors". I said

"Ann, did you think I was going to try to crash the system for

littering?" Ann said that she was making sure, and friends, Ann was,

'cause she cleared all my left-hand privs bits so I couldn't logout.

And she disabled the TREPLACE command so I couldn't crock in an

XCT [0] instruction, cause an illegal instruction interrupt to MEXEC,

and sneak into MDDT. Yeah, Ann was making sure, and it was about four

or five hours later that Chiappa (remember Chiappa? This song's never

even mentioned Chiappa) Chiappa came by and with a few gratuitous

insults to the CLU hackers bailed us out of there, and we went out and

had another Chinese dinner that couldn't be beat, and didn't get up

until the next morning when we all had to go to LCS Computational

Resources staff meeting.

We walked in, sat down. Ann came in with the RP06 disk pack with the

27000 pages with the comments and the -READ-.-THIS- files and a two

liter coffee mug, sat down. Esther Felix comes in says "All rise", we

stood up, Ann stood up with the 27000 page RP06 pack, and Dave Clark

comes in with an IBM PC. He sits down, we sit down, Ann looks at the

IBM PC. Then at the 27000 page RP06 pack, then at the IBM PC, then at

the 27000 page RP06 pack, and began to cry, because Ann had come to

the realization that it was a typical case of 36%8==4 and that there

was no way to display those last four bits, and that Dave wasn't gonna

look at the 27000 pages of core dumps and photo files on the RP06 pack

with the comments and -READ-.-THIS- files explaining what each one was

to be used as evidence against us.

And we were permanently assigned to the batch dregs queue and had to

rebuild the bittable (in the batch dregs queue). But that's not what

I came here to talk about. I came here to talk about DEC.

======================================================================

They got a building up there in Marlboro where you walk in and get

averted, diverted, inverted, reverted, and perverted. I went up there

one day to pick up a new copy of the tools tape. Drove down to Philly

for a Greatful Dead concert the night before, so I looked and felt my

best when I went in that morning. 'Cause I wanted to look like a real

live twenex hacker from MIT. I wanted to feel like, I wanted to be a

real live twenex hacker from MIT. I walked in and I was hung down,

brung down, hung up, and spaced out. The receptionist hands be a

piece of paper saying "Kid, the EDIT-20 maintainers are polling user

opinions today and would like you to stop by room 604 while you're

here."

Here is Alices song (PDP 10's part 2

I walked in there and I said "Droids, I want to lose. I mean, I want

to lose. I want to see line editors on CRTs and nulls in my files.

Write 36 bit ascii that can't be read except with the monitor

filtering it. I mean LOSE, LOSE, LOSE!" And I started jumping up and

down yelling "LOSE, LOSE", and Kevin Paetzold came in wearing his

moose ear hat and started jumping up and down with me yelling "LOSE,

LOSE", and a DEC sales rep came over, put an arm around my shoulder,

and said "How'd you like me to show you a *real* editor that has

macros and things like that? We have one, it's called TV...."

Didn't feel too good about it.

Proceeded on down the hall getting more diversions and perversions.

Man, I was in there for two hours, three hours, four hours, I was in

there for a long time, and they was doing all kinds of mean nasty ugly

things, and I was just having a tough time there. They was diverting

and inverting every single part of me and they was leaving no bit

untouched.

Finally I got to the very last office (I'd been in all the rest), the

very last desk, after that whole big thing there, and I walk over and

say "what do you want?" and the man says "Kid, we only got one

question: have you ever been dewheeled?"

So I proceeded to tell him the story of the 10600 page five pack PS:

with full orchestration and five part harmony and other phenomena and

he stopped me right there and said "Kid, did you ever get hauled on

the carpet for it?"

So I proceeded to tell him about the 27000 page RP06 pack with the

comments and the -READ-.-THIS- files and he stopped me right there and

said "Kid, I want you to go sit over there on that bench marked Large

Systems SIG. NOW, KID!"

I, I walked over to the bench there... See, the LCG group is where

they put you if they think you may not be compatible with the rest of

DEC's product line.

There was all kinds of mean nasty ugly people there on the bench...

Chaosnet designers... Lisp hackers... TECO hackers. TECO hackers

right there on the bench with me! And the meanest one of them, the

hairiest TECO hacker of them all was coming over to me. And he was

mean and nasty and horrible and undocumented and all kinds of stuff.

And he sat down next to me and said:

[1:i*^Yu14<q1&377.f"nir'q1/400.u1>[8

.-z(1702117120m81869946983m8w660873337m8w1466458484m8

)+z,.f^@fx*[0:ft^]0w^\

And I said "I didn't get nothing, I had to rebuild the bittable in

queue six" and he said:

[1:i*^Yu16<q1&77.+32iq1f"l#-1/100.#-1&7777777777.'"#/100.'u1r>6c[6

.(675041640067.m6w416300715765.m6w004445675045.m6

455445440046.m6w576200535144.m6w370000000000.m6),.fx*[0:ft^]0w^\

And I said "Littering". And they all moved away from me on the bench

there, with the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty ugly stuff

until I said "and making undocumented gratuitous changes to the

default EMACS key bindings". And they all came back, shook my hand,

and we had a great time on the bench talking about Chaosnet hacking

and Lisp interpreters written in TECO, and everything was fine. And

we were eating Peking ravs and smoking all kinds of things until the

guy from DDC came over, had some paper in his hand, said:

KIDS-THIS-SPR-FORM-HAS-FIFTY-EIGHT-LINES-THIRTY-SEVEN-BOXES-AN'-

SIXTY-EIGHT-QUESTIONS-WE-WANT-TO-KNOW-THE-DETAILS-OF-THE-BUG-THE-

LOAD-FACTOR-WHEN-IT-HAPPENED-AND-ANY-OTHER-KIND-OF-THING-YOU-GOT-

TO-SAY-WE-WANT-TO-KNOW-THE-F-S-GUY'S-NAME-AND-HOW-MANY-TRACKS-ON-

YOUR-TAPE-DRIVE-AND-ANY-OTHER-KIND-OF-THING-YOU-GOT-TO-SAY-

and he talked for forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word

that he said or why we were doing this but we had fun filling out the

forms in triplicate and speculating on why we were filling out SPRs on

unsupported products.

I filled out the special form with the four-level macro defining

macros. Typed it in there just like it was and everything was fine.

And I put down my keyboard, and I switched buffers, and there ... in

the other buffer... centered in the other buffer... away from

everything else in the buffer... in parentheses, capital letters, in

reverse video, read the following words:

"Kid, have you taken the ``VMS for TOPS-20 managers'' course yet?"

I walked over to the man and I said "Mister, you got a lot of damned

gall asking me if I've taken the ``VMS for TOPS-20 managers'' course

yet. I mean... I mean... I mean, I'm sitting here on the bench, I'm

sitting here on the LCG SIG bench, 'cause you want to know if I'm

braindamaged enough trade my PDP-10 for partial credit on a system

that doesn't even handle filename completion after being a litterbug."

He looked at me and said "Kid, the front office don't like your kind,

so we're going to put you on our VAX/VMS mailing list." And friends,

somewhere down in the NE43 receiving room is a large trash barrel with

a big sign on it that says "VAX/VMS documents".

And the only reason I'm singing you the song now is that someday

you may know somebody in a similar situation... or you may be in a

similar situation. And if you're in a situation like that there's

only one thing you can do, and that's call up the Digital Educational

Services office nearest you and sing "You can hack anything you want

with TECO and DDT" and hang up.

You know, if one person, just one person, does it, they may think he's

really dangerous and they won't take his machine.

And if two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both ITS

hackers and they won't touch either of them.

And if three people do it! Can you imagine three people calling up,

singin' a bar of "Alice's PDP-10" and hanging up? They may think it's

an re-implementation of the Chaosnet protocol.

And can you imagine fifty people a day? I said FIFTY people a day,

calling up, singin' a bar of "Alice's PDP-10" and hanging up?

Friends, they may think it's a MOVEMENT, and that's what it is: THE

36-BIT ANTI-LOSSAGE MOVEMENT! And all you gotta do to join is to sing

it the next time it comes up to the head of the GOLST.

With feelin'.

You can hack anything you want, with TECO and DDT.

You can hack anything you want, with just TECO and DDT.

$U in and begin to hack.

Twiddle bits in a core dump and write it back.

You can hack anything you want, with TECO and DDT.

(But be careful typing <RET>)

Just with TECO and DDT!

Fining who ?

Hi,

When will the regulatory bodies realise that NO public bodies, whether they are government, local authorities , councils, NGO's etc, have any money of their own.

It used to belong to the long suffering "general public" you and me, before it was taken as taxes and tribute.

Fining public bodies is indirectly fining the general public, 'cause next year the offenders are going to put up their taxes, fees or whatever to recover the fines.

The only way to hurt these offenders is to SACK them without compensation!

Bring on the tea party!

cheers

Patrick

How many power stations to fast charge 20 eleccies at once

@ Simon

Thank god for an engineer, who understands POWER

You wouldn't like to extend that concept would you? How much power would a recharge station take if it had to deal with 20 cars at once? I make it 1.6 Gigawatt !!

Back in the day I used to work at the big wind tunnel at Bristol Aircraft Filton. The fan was driven by a thumping great 2000 hp electric motor that took a miserly 2Mwatt from the Grid. Before the tunnel engineers could start it to do a run, they had to ring the CEGB grid switch control and tell them to expect the surge current! Sometimes they were told they could not use the tunnel if there was already a heavy load on the area sub.

And if eventually there are as many electric cars as there are IC cars today, how many more power stations will there need to be to provide several tens of thousands country wide fast charge stations? Double our present generating capacity, triple?

And lastly 50KwH batteries are tiny, think in future to get a reasonable range there will be 250 KwH batteries. Think how much power you are going to have to stuff down the wire to charge 20 of those up!

Yummy!

P

If only the data was correct!

Hi,

By a fluke, a couple of years ago, it became apparent to my wife and I that our local health centre's, (surgery), on-line records contained errors.

After a great deal of obfuscation, we were allowed to sit down with the practice manager and review ALL the entries in our records. There were 12 major errors in my wife's records and 15 in mine. I am talking MAJOR errors. The worst errors were that some other patients' conditions and treatments had been entered against my wife name. There were also hospital diagnosis sent as paper reports, that had never been entered. (Data missing, e.g. I was short of one cataract correction operation, a arithyscopy (sp), and an internal ultrasound). On the magic summary sheet, my acute glaucoma had been entered as "CURED" , a medical miracle. My wife was credited with a knee operation I had undergone! and so on and on and on!

When I asked how the data entry was checked, I got a blank look from the practice manager, "Look" she said, pointing out the code of the data entry person, "this was entered by out best data entry person, a retired midwife", "Great" I said, "what is her % accuracy in keying tests?, how is the entry checked? "

Guess what ! The data entry is never checked! The practice manager then proceeded to tell me her practice data records were very good, and that many patients moving to her practice had records from other heath centres that were really bad.

Needless to say, my wife and I both opted out of the scheme the next day. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have been successful, as periodically we get queries to take part in surveys, the information for which can only have come from our online medical records

Oh, and BTW, my wife's potentially fatal allergy to penicillin was not on her record, despite her telling every doctor she ever saw at the surgery, never to prescribe penicillin as an antibiotic.

IT in the NHS sucks big time!

regards

Patrick