Good Radio Show Tuesday

[Toby]

Mornin' y'all,

Everything else got set aside yesterday to take care of a couple of 'puter emergencies. We take care of the basic IT at the dental office of our friendly neighborhood dentist that lives across the street.

The file server we built for him lost a power supply, easy fix, but we also discovered that the hard drives were 80% full. So a new power supply and a pair of new 750 Gig hard drives (Raid 1) for that box.

While we were at it we also upgraded the primary drive in his bookkeeper's work station, which was so full that the machine would barely boot up.

They're all happy and back in business, but I didn't get any of my own work done. I can't complain though, I do get free dental care out of the deal.

is on, help yourself

[Mr. Blue]

Originally Posted by Toby

The file server we built for him lost a power supply, easy fix, but we also discovered that the hard drives were 80% full. So a new power supply and a pair of new 750 Gig hard drives (Raid 1) for that box.

One wouldn't think a dentist would need that much hard drive space. Did he ditch his x-ray machine and go for one of those new computer imaging, umm, thingies (yeah I had to bust out the technical term, "thingie" in this description).

[lorsha]

Have a great day everyone!

[stuveltje]

morning i was so nice to help out the school of my son with sports day (it is probably named different but you know its a day with all kind of sports activities) and hell did i regret that, it was a morning full with rain and wind and cold and a couple of 100s of yelling kids age 9 i got soaken wet and deadly tired at home, and now finally that damn sun is shining the rest of my day will be: helping someone out with a script after diner and then hot tub, telly and couch and thats it have a great day all

[Toby]

Originally Posted by Mr. Blue

One wouldn't think a dentist would need that much hard drive space. Did he ditch his x-ray machine and go for one of those new computer imaging, umm, thingies (yeah I had to bust out the technical term, "thingie" in this description).

There are three dentists in the practice. They take photos with a digital camera that are then uploaded and linked to the patients chart. It's far easier to put up a full screen digital photo to show the patient rather than using mirrors and trying to talk to the patient about treatment with their head back and mouth wide open.

They're still using old-fashioned film x-rays, at least for now. Plans are in the works for converting to digital x-rays, but that system will have it's own storage solution.