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- Thu Aug 08, 2013 8:58 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: What are you guys using for data encryption?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 68695
Re: What are you guys using for data encryption?
If you use encryption, you need a password to access your encrypted files. The files are only as secure as your password. Picking a decent password is a science. Few people care to learn about passwords but if you have ever used certain versions of Linux and you use a weak password, Linux cracks you...
- Thu Aug 08, 2013 6:20 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Switching to Open Dental
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11400
Re: Switching to Open Dental
I agree with the above post. We just past our 2 year anniversary switching from Softdent to OD. I still consider Softdent to be the most comprehensive package outside of OD. We switched away from Softdent when they were going to require a $10,000 upgrade in hardware and software. We already have all...
- Thu Aug 01, 2013 1:19 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: RAID 0 or 1
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10514
Re: RAID 0 or 1
I guess I had hoped for a more obvious notification that there was trouble with a disk. I am sure that the software that comes with the unit would tell me that there was no disk or a bad disk, but I would prefer not to have to check with the special software every time. The portability of the unit p...
- Thu Aug 01, 2013 11:18 am
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: virtualbox question
- Replies: 23
- Views: 30281
Re: virtualbox question
Cobian looks like great software. I will have to give it a try. The only time I seem to end up with a vhd file is when I virtualize a running machine. My personal desktop machine just started to go bad so I virtualized it because it had so much stuff on it. I didn't want to reinstall tons of stuff I...
- Mon Jul 29, 2013 9:39 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: RAID 0 or 1
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10514
Re: RAID 0 or 1
This weekend I replaced the 2.5" disk drives with hybrid drives. With RAID 1 and two hybrid drives the boot up of Linux is almost instantaneous. This little RAID enclosure is transportable across machines. The one problem I have is that I removed one of the drives to see what kind of dead disk warni...
- Mon Jul 29, 2013 8:44 am
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: virtualbox question
- Replies: 23
- Views: 30281
Re: virtualbox question
Everything is on the VM, all services, all files to be backed up, the bat file, everything. Stop all the services that will interfere with your backup. Place the bat file on the desktop of your VM. Right click the bat file and select "Edit." Change the bat file to back up your special files and chan...
- Mon Jul 29, 2013 6:17 am
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: virtualbox question
- Replies: 23
- Views: 30281
Re: virtualbox question
@echo off :: variables set drive=F:\OD-BU set backupcmd=xcopy /s /c /d /e /h /i /r /y set folder=%date:~10,4%_%date:~4,2%_%date:~7,2% ::%backupcmd% "D:\Images\*.*" "%drive%\%folder%\Images" %backupcmd% "D:\OpenDentImages\*.*" "%drive%\%folder%\OpenDentImages" %backupcmd% "D:\ServerFolders\SharedDocu...
- Sat Jul 27, 2013 3:58 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Unlimited custom reports in OD with Python
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9134
Re: Unlimited custom reports in OD with Python
I am mildly surprised that someone got this up an running so easily. I am glad for that. I suppose you must have had to tweak your recall numbers, didn't you? My son wrote this program for me after seeing me labor manually looking up all this information in the charts. Needless to say, we are all st...
- Sat Jul 27, 2013 3:41 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: RAID 0 or 1
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10514
Re: RAID 0 or 1
The little enclosure I have only has room for two 2.5" drives and does not allow for the option of anything other that RAID 0 , RAID 1, JDOB and one called PM or something that I have never heard of before. If you do the more advanced RAID levels, you will really be needing at least three disks and ...
- Sat Jul 27, 2013 3:25 pm
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: virtualbox question
- Replies: 23
- Views: 30281
Re: virtualbox question
That is more or less what I do too. I have a clone of my server at home and I take my data update and push it to the clone. Now I have an exact replica of my officer server at home which I could move to the office if I needed to. When I refresh the data on the clone, I can check that everything is t...
- Fri Jul 26, 2013 1:02 pm
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: virtualbox question
- Replies: 23
- Views: 30281
Re: virtualbox question
I think you stop most network services like so: net stop MySQL This is going to change depending on what you are shutting down. You may need to do a taskkill or something else. If you google it you should find an answer. MySQL is a network service and so it can be killed with net stop. Other service...
- Fri Jul 26, 2013 6:14 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Audit Trail
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5914
Re: Audit Trail
There are a million ways to defraud a business of which stealing payments is only one. I am told a common one is setting up a fake business that sends bogus bills to the practice which are paid to the crooks. Overstating write-offs is also common. Hopefully, this tread can be built into an automated...
- Thu Jul 25, 2013 1:40 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Unlimited custom reports in OD with Python
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9134
Re: Unlimited custom reports in OD with Python
OK, that looks better. Thanks!
- Thu Jul 25, 2013 1:39 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Unlimited custom reports in OD with Python
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9134
Re: Unlimited custom reports in OD with Python
import MySQLdb a=open("daysheet.txt", 'w') db = MySQLdb.connect(host="server", # your host, usually localhost user="root", # your username passwd="", # your password db="your database name") # name of the data base opendental is the default cur = db.cursor() cur.execute("SELECT * FROM appointment a...
- Thu Jul 25, 2013 1:17 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Unlimited custom reports in OD with Python
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9134
Re: Unlimited custom reports in OD with Python
I tried to edit my post of the python program but the message board strips out leading spaces. I can write in [tab][tab]for row in ... to signify that there would be two tabs for indentation on this line, but I won't bother unless there is some interest. I suspect anyone interested in tackling this ...
- Thu Jul 25, 2013 11:19 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Audit Trail
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5914
Re: Audit Trail
I don't think the Audit Trail feature is intended to do what you would like it to do. It appears you are investigating the possibility of fraud and the audit trail will give you a heads-up about that but you are probably going to need custom queries to look deeper in some issues. I have thought this...
- Thu Jul 25, 2013 7:55 am
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: virtualbox question
- Replies: 23
- Views: 30281
Re: virtualbox question
I run my server in a VM. To do backup, I shut down the services that will lock database files and double click on a .bat file that backs up the important files. You shut down services by right clicking on the computer icon and then go MANAGE and then to the service you wish to stop, ex, MySQL, right...
- Thu Jul 25, 2013 6:26 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: RAID 0 or 1
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10514
Re: RAID 0 or 1
I would stay away from RAID 0 unless you are very tech savvy. You don't need the speed, most likely, and it can really complicate your life. RAID 1 mirrors two disks in case one goes down. Microcenter has a small enclosure the size of a 3.5" drive. It holds two 2.5" laptop drives. You set a setting ...
- Wed Jul 24, 2013 1:57 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Unlimited custom reports in OD with Python
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9134
Re: Unlimited custom reports in OD with Python
I just reviewed my post and I see that line indentations have been dropped in the python program. The program will not run unless this is changed. If you know python you will be able to fix this easily since you will know where the indentations are supposed to be. When I posted the program the inden...
- Wed Jul 24, 2013 1:51 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Unlimited custom reports in OD with Python
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9134
Unlimited custom reports in OD with Python
I thought this would be worth sharing. It is somewhat technical but I see there are many tech-heads who use OD. Our office pre-screens every patient at the beginning of each day. We check whether the patient needs premedication, has allergies, takes meds, for health conditions, delinquent treatment ...
- Wed Jul 24, 2013 12:52 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Autonotes
- Replies: 39
- Views: 32240
Re: Autonotes
Please don't get rid of autonotes! We have very strict charting requirements here in Minnesota and autonotes allows me to chart to these requirements very quickly and easily. If you offer an alternative, please don't throw away autonotes.
- Thu Feb 21, 2013 9:12 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: wiki
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10456
msds
My office is searching the web for msds's in pdf format. We intend to try to find all of our data sheets and keep them in a file on the computer in our office. I would be glad to post these sheets to a wiki page and I would really appreciate being able to take advantage of the work others are puttin...
- Fri Mar 16, 2012 3:35 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: What is your "Oh no my server crashed" plan?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 324092
Re: What is your "Oh no my server crashed" plan?
I think the thing that keeps getting overlooked in the backup discussions is the network settings are not backed up with file by file backup methods like Crashplan appears to me to be. Jordan is right on when he says backing up your data will keep you from going out of business. Everyone here is loo...
- Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:17 pm
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: What is your "Oh no my server crashed" plan?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 324092
Re: What is your "Oh no my server crashed" plan?
To joshuab: You can rebuild the database if you backup the image directory for Schick. The directions are on the disk that came with CDRDicom. I would love it if Jordan built a PACS server for everyone's Dicom images. Maybe it is intended to be part of the A-Z folder at some point since that seems t...
- Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:44 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: What is your "Oh no my server crashed" plan?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 324092
Re: What is your "Oh no my server crashed" plan?
You are sure right to be thinking about this before it happens! It is interestesting that you said "your server goes down." How it goes down makes all the difference in the world. If the work horse of your computer goes bad, namely the disk drive, you are golden if you have a clone. If your server g...
- Thu Feb 09, 2012 6:10 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: digital radiography
- Replies: 22
- Views: 70212
Re: digital radiography
We are already using Schick in our office and we are considering XDR. Does anyone have any experience using more that one digital xray system in the office? What are the ups and downs of having one DH take pictures with a Schick sensor and another take them with XDR? Can the images be stored in the ...
- Wed Feb 08, 2012 6:35 am
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Virtualization vs Hyper V and help with Schick
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13363
Re: Virtualization vs Hyper V and help with Schick
My problem is not with OD, it is with the Schick xray database that uses MS SQL Express. This database product does not behave well in a pseudo server environment. My paranoia centers around the fact that a server crash would not only take my data, which is backed up, but also all my network setting...
- Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:27 pm
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Virtualization vs Hyper V and help with Schick
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13363
Re: Virtualization vs Hyper V and help with Schick
Because I am using Windows 7 Pro for my server, it is very difficult to make the network connections to MS SQL from the work stations. I know this would be much easier in Windows Server products but I would really like to be able to run this whole system under Linux in MySQL or Sybase. It would have...
- Fri Feb 03, 2012 8:19 pm
- Forum: Advanced Topics
- Topic: Virtualization vs Hyper V and help with Schick
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13363
Virtualization vs Hyper V and help with Schick
Hello everyone, I am new to Opendental and I would like some input. I converted from Softdent to OD and I am delighted with everything about OD. I love the freedom of having the data much more transportable that it was in Softdent. As I read the old posts about changing OD to MS SQL it concerns me b...
- Fri Jan 27, 2012 7:06 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: command line for OD backup
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11100
Re: command line for OD backup
In our office we back up 3 different ways. We have a server with a very inexpensive add on that accepts a sata drive through a five inch slot in the front of the machine. I added this to a regular box I bought at Microcenter. 1. So we do serial backups with a different drive for a different day on a...
- Sun Jan 22, 2012 11:53 am
- Forum: Main Forum
- Topic: Open Dental 11 Trial on Linux
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7724
Re: Open Dental 11 Trial on Linux
This is fantastic!
I installed OD on Ubuntu 11.10 running in Virtualbox with a Windows 7 host.
I am having some graphics issues but it does run.
Great work! I love it.
I installed OD on Ubuntu 11.10 running in Virtualbox with a Windows 7 host.
I am having some graphics issues but it does run.
Great work! I love it.