Weblog entry #161 for ajt
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I noticed today that I've not posted any articles to this site in over a year. This is very bad. I've been working on an ikiwiki article for ever and day - it's mostly done and I keep promising to do one on NFSv4 and NFSv4+Kerberos if I can ever get Kerberos to work.
The problem is with the redundancy axe hanging over me and family worries I never seem to have the time to do anything. The stupid thing is it's not as if I can actually do anything about things outside my control, it doesn't have to eat up time. Sometimes doing something else helps to take your mind of it - I've just got to get motivated.
On a more positive note my cancer has been declared "fixed". Or rather the hospital has discharged me, saying that any further tests would carry more risk than there is of the cancer returning on it's own. Which is good in a strange sort of way.
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I'd be interested in an NFS w/ krb5 article myself (that's been on my own list for ages). I hadn't even been aware that work had started on NFSv5. Do you have pointers? Google seems to think i must be talking about some car racing video game when i try the trivial/obvious searches :p
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Ups... NFSv4 is what I meant... Original edited.
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Adam
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Medical staff can be strange...
My consultant is a world leader in his field. He has found that for once the best treatment is passive observation, it's painless and low risk. I've had quite a few CT scan and a lot of blood tests, but in other European countries I would have had far more CT scans and in the US I'd have had a massive operation - one of the largest and most complicated you can, and then lots of scan.
You get quite a radiation dose from a CT scan and the risk is not insignificant if you have two or three per year for a five year period. The operation carried out in the US is massive and extremely complex and time consuming with minimal benefit.
In my case out came the tumour and adjoining tissue and I was sent home within 24 hours. After five years of blood tests and some CT scans I'm declared clean, which apparently 15% are. Of the remaining 85% some need radio or chemotherapy, but even then over 99% should make a full recovery if the cancer is caught early.
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The operation carried out in the US is massive and extremely complex and time consuming with minimal benefit.As a US citizen, i can attest that this description is a neat fit not only for a lot of common medical practice, but also for our parasitic healthcare billing and insurance industry.
It sounds like you got a better (and smarter) deal. I'm glad.
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He has a political angle, but Michael Moore's Sicko raises a lot of pertinent issues. I know I wasn't happy with my medical position when I lived in the US and while there are many problems with the system in the UK - I prefer the European system to the US one.
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