Open source medication adherence tools?
by Bryn M. Reeves
Hi Folks,
I'm looking for any open source software designed to help patients with
medication adherence (that is, sticking to and tracking a regular regime
of medications).
I've searched around a fair bit but haven't yet come up with much;
there's some cool R-based statistical tools for analysing adherence
studies and a lot of freeware (no source) stuff that covers the kind of
reminder/patient help tool that I'm looking for but not much in the open
space for that kind of need.
I'm interested in creating something to fill this gap - I have to admit
that my ideal target would be a Maemo application for Nokia's N-series
Linux tablets/phones but I think it makes sense to structure something
like this in a way that makes it portable to a wide range of desktop
environments and devices without too much effort.
I'd be really interested to hear of anything that already exists in this
area - one thing I'm looking for is data to "seed" an embedded database
of common medications, pack sizes, dose schedules etc. All this
information is freely available but the versions that already exist in
electronic format that I've found all have cost and licensing conditions
that would be problematic.
I'd also loge to hear from anyone who might like to collaborate on this
kind of project.
Regards,
Bryn.
14 years, 2 months
APIC data ??
by Arne Chr. Jorgensen
Was "Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(. "
Quoting myself:
>
> Having a laptop, HP 6715b,which became a *nightmare* under F10-x86_64.
> I have managed a lot of crappy stuff, but that was hell until the very
> end.
> A quick test of F11-686, F13-rawhide, and did install F12-x86_64, with
> some hesitation.
> I am surprised: - no flicker on screen, no lock up ( so far ), and it is
> running 10-25 degrees C cooler ! Fans have never been as silent !
> My question: what on earth was so terrible wrong with the driver under
> F10 ? What was the nature of that error ?
> ( It did not run this nice under F11 or F13, while then I used 686. )
> I am puzzled....
>
Most of the debate about drivers only look at graphics. In my case I have
a laptop, where the graphic controllers have become the major chipset on the motherboard. I have had trouble with busses, devices, ..everything..
Some of the hardware are not enabled by Fedora, and I had to dual boot with Vista (64bit). Fedora 10 did seem to change behaviour after upgrades done in Microsoft, etc.
Is the interface through some "DSDT" tables ( is that the name for it ?)
Now - for the first time, I have installed XP ( 32 bit ) and drivers. In other words - the hardware descriptions in ACPI may have changed.
Questions:
- is there a way to save those tables ?
( compare tables from XP and Vista, maybe add them in a bugzilla report if
they are different ? )
//ARNE
14 years, 2 months
bug/feature in host/nslookup command - queries wrong server
by Duncan Berriman
Hi,
I have noticed that fedora 10 appears to ignore the server option when
using host or nslookup if the host in question is not available.
The commands should return no server available as they have in the past
but instead decide to query the local name server and return results
from that.
# nslookup google.co.uk 123.123.123.1
Server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.co.uk
Address: 66.102.11.99
Name: google.co.uk
Address: 66.102.11.104
# host google.co.uk 123.123.123.1
Using domain server:
Name: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53
Aliases:
google.co.uk has address 66.102.11.104
google.co.uk has address 66.102.11.99
google.co.uk mail is handled by 10 google.com.s9b1.psmtp.com.
google.co.uk mail is handled by 10 google.com.s9b2.psmtp.com.
google.co.uk mail is handled by 10 google.com.s9a1.psmtp.com.
google.co.uk mail is handled by 10 google.com.s9a2.psmtp.com.
Using the debug option does not reveal anything it appears that the
command just decides since it can't connect to the server in question it
will query the servers defined in resolv.conf instead.
Is there an option in later release of fedora to enable/disable this? Is
it expected behaviour now?
Help!
Duncan
14 years, 2 months
F12 nouveau problem?
by Joachim Backes
Dear community,
having a *little* problem with nouveau and NVIDIA FX5200 (princeton
display, 1280x1024): Under F12, it works OK - but when rebooting to
WinXP, the screen is not centered, but shifted a little bit to the left
(a small black vertical bar remains rightside). After auto tuning the
display in WinXP, and after rebooting to F12, there is the inverse
effect (small black vertical bar on the left side).
By running my screen with kmod-nvidia-173xx from rpmfusion, I get rid
from these problems.
Any hints?
Kind regards
--
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de>
http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes
14 years, 2 months
wireless adapter stops working after update
by Peter Lesterhuis
Some time ago the on-board wireless card of my laptop broke down.
After some googling I bought a new wireless usb-device (Asus WL-167g USB
WLAN adapter). Iwas said to be working out of the box. And it did. But
after the first updates it stopped working.
Booting the previous kernel does not help.
Somehow I can't believe that the wireless card isn't supported anymore
in the latest kernel.
I reinstalled fedora 12 ... and the card starts working again.
But after installing updates an rebooting it stops working.
Any clues would be wellcome.
Peter
14 years, 2 months
e100 error
by Howard Howell
Hi, everyone,
I have one older IBM system running F11. I am trying to upgrade the
video card. I bought a PNY version NVIDIA GE Force 5200 PCI board to
use.
When I plug it in and connect the video, the system boots and goes
through the full F11 bar display, the screen goes blank and after a few
seconds I get an error message:
e100:eth0 NIC Link is up 100Mbps full duplex
ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE):eth0: link becomes ready
which flashes for a few more seconds, then becomes stable with an
underscore cursor beneath it.
when I attempted to Google it, All I found were references to F12
(which this machine refuses to run anyway, I'm hoping for F13 to fix
that). It appears though that hitting return when you see this message
in F12 will let the machine proceed. Not so, when I hit return, the
cursor moves down one line but nothing further happens.
The changes recommended have to do with setting some options in some of
the bootscripts.
Here is one thread discussing the issue:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11998
However, this doesn't seem to fit. The only thing changing in my
system is the adding of the PCI based video card. How can that affect
the hardware setup of the NIC card? Moreover, why is the renaming
taking place at all to begin with? Mac addresses are supposed to be
unique. Is there a manufacturer or subset of manufacturers who are not
following the rules, or have the number of cards exceeded the number of
available addresses? But these questions detract from my base
question::
How do I get my system to work properly with the new card? The reason
I am doing this is to eliminate video streaking on the subject computer
which occurs with the built in intel chipset.
Regards,
Les H
14 years, 2 months
Brother MFC210C Printer Install
by Jim
FC12-X86_64/Kde
There are no Linux drivers for this printer other than the ones from
Brother, but they are i386.rpm drivers and I need to install on a
X86_64 Fedora12.
What other 32 bit rpms would I need to install to get the i386.rpm
drivers to work on a X86_64 box ?
14 years, 2 months
A "sound" observation
by Ed Greshko
At this time I run all of my Fedora systems as VMs in VMware. My host
is RHELv4.8. On this system my sound card is a "ancient" Creative Labs
SB Audigy. When configuring the VM you can select either "ALSA" or
"OSS: /dev/dsp" and directly access the sound hardware. "ALSA" is the
preferred connection to avoid conflicts between the host and guest.
While I am normally a KDE user my F12 system has both KDE and GNOME
installed. I don't normally use sound on this VM...but sometime after
the initial install sound has gone silent when the sound card is
configured as "ALSA". Wish I had paid more attention to what update
caused the change. But to continue....
I also have an openSUSE system with only KDE installed and when I
installed it I declined to install pulseaudio (they have a check-box for
it). It is fully updated and sound with "ALSA" selected is no problem.
So, I just installed F12 from the Live-KDE iso. Immediately after the
install I removed all the pulseaudio bits and then fully updated the
system. It too has no problem to play sound with "ALSA" configured.
I snapshotted the system, did a "yum groupinstall GNOME Desktop",
restarted and *poof* sound is no more. pavucontrol did have the Output
Devices at 10% and Playback at 0% but putting those at 100% made no
difference. kmix had Master and PCM at max.
At some point I may do a bit more troubleshooting. But, it is good to
experience the frustration other have with sound and apparently
"pulseaudio". Chances are I'll be acquiring some new hardware in the
coming months. I'm considering to run Fedora on it. If that
happens...it will be sans GNOME and sans pulseaudio.
At this moment pulseaudio seems more of a PITA than anything and kind of
crazy that a desktop environment would tie itself to it.
14 years, 2 months
F11 Issues
by Dan Thurman
Updates:
libmrpt-hwdrivers.so.0.7 is needed by package
mrpt-monoslam-0.7.1-0.1.20090818svn1148.fc11.i586
libmrpt-core.so.0.7 is needed by package
mrpt-monoslam-0.7.1-0.1.20090818svn1148.fc11.i586
libprojectM.so.2 is needed by package
ultrastardx-1.1.1-1.7.20090411.fc11.i586
+ This has been around for some time, and is a reoccurring theme.
Firefox:
+ Does not display certain forum-based, forum member added
images ([img]http://...[/img]). This is known to work ok with F9,
Ubuntu 9.10, Windows IE/FF but not with F-10/11.
Screensaver:
Activating:
Activate screensaver when computer is idle.
Lock screen when screensaver is active.
+ Causes the GUI to lockout completely. Local and remote
access is denied and system is totally inactive (no disk activity).
+ Forced power down/up is required.
+ Leaving both unchecked works fine.
Bootup:
+ Cannot get proper higher screen resolution w/ Intel-945GC
graphics chip unless one adds 'nomodset' to the boot kernel
line. Max resolution is 1024.768, but using nomodset allows
1600x1200.
FWIW,
Dan
14 years, 2 months
