topic Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2004 in Operating System - HP-UX

Please Post Forums Issues - January 2004

Kimberly Ann — Mon, 05 Jan 2004 11:58:39 GMT

Hi All,

Happy New Year to everyone!

Please continue reporting any issues you may encounter while using the forums. It helps us continue to improve upon your forums experience!

Please include URLs from your browser associated with error messages, and please include the date and time the errors occur.

You can also post your forums **successes** for January at:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=347728

Thanks for your previous feedback!

Best regards,
Dan

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2004

Pete Randall — Mon, 05 Jan 2004 12:04:10 GMT

Dan,

The monthly request list. Now sorted in priority order (my priority, anyway). Please note the items corrected in the Sept 20 update have been moved to a separate section at the end of the list for now so that we can all appreciate the efforts that you and the team put forth:

1) Recover the content lost during the 9/20/03 conversion/update - there are numerous threads which suffered partial content loss, Merijn's statistics postings being a prime example.

2) Fix the occasional (but all too frequent) "unavailable" and "404" errors which can make the forums unusable for hours at a time.

3) Create a new category under HP-UX for congratulations, humor and other miscellaneous off-topic threads so that those who don't wish to view these items can bypass them.

4) Show the poster's name in the reply window.

5) Repeat the bread crumb navigation links at the bottom of the page so we don't have to
page all the way up to the top of long threads. Also, add the same links to the notification pages.

6) Pre-assign 0 points to all answers. This eliminates the whining about not assigning
points and the obsessive pursuit of 100% point assignment ratios. Alternatively, eliminate the tracking of points assignment ratios.

7) Could we possibly have a real, functional search engine? Please??

8) Could we have some sort of convergence between the US and European sites? They can't get to our URLs, we can't get to theirs, Merijn gets the wrong search engine - why do they have to be separate and different?

9) Other forms of URLs need to be recognized (https, ftp) as the http ones are.

10) Allow for formatted text that does not lose spaces, so script snippets can be unders
tood.

11) Provide the ability for a user to customize the forum subjects they view by setting up their own groupings (like: all of HP-UX, plus Servers (9000), plus Workstations (hp-ux based), plus all of Storage - well, you get the idea).

12) Limit the amount of space taken up by "masthead" stuff (headings, descriptions, rankings, etc. at the top of the page) so we can actually see some questions. This is now worse than ever - I have to page down just to see the first question.

13) From Merijn: The ability to have a fixed signature in one's profile.

The following are former issues, fixed in the last major update:

The slow submit issue that causes so many duplicate postings and duplicate replies seems to have been completely eradicated, thanks!

The same is true for inablility to assign points issue, thanks!

And also for: (Borrowing from JRF: could you please *not* preload "databases" (just because it is the lexicographically first item). Instead, make the user choose the correct category.) Thanks!

Now, when a question is moved, the link points directly to the question, rather than just to the category, thanks!

Pete

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2004

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 05 Jan 2004 12:10:28 GMT

To clarify on the search engine.

The search engine now points to posts that are not available online. This decreases the usefulness of the engine.

I ran into this several frustrating times tracking down the flaw I may have discovered in sendmail.

As to the zero points pre-assign, just note that the desire for that is not universal.

Back to business and work folks. Lets solve some problems!

SEP

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2004

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Mon, 05 Jan 2004 12:22:25 GMT

point 8) has been solved already, at least for me :) :)

. I still want 100% (relative width) tables, so I don't have that much wasted space
. I still want sane (DD-MM-YYYY or YYYYMMDD) date formats

Have a sane and secure 2004 (all 366 days of it)

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2004

Geoff Wild — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 10:40:42 GMT

Searching - why when I search the forums for:

Your search for vmunix: LPMC type : D-Cache Parity Error produced no results!

Yet, when I search google:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=vmunix%3A+LPMC+type+%3A+D%2DCache+Parity+Error

with 1 link pointing to:

http://tinyurl.com/36jmz

Why doesn't that show when I search the forums directly?

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2004

John Collier — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 11:26:56 GMT

We still have the issues with the â my solution(s)â and â my response(s)â areas in a personâ s profile not reflecting the latest information available for each member. While it may not seem like much to some, it is an issue for others (such as myself).

I also see no mention of the issues with the â cut-n-pasteâ that exist from M$ products to the forums. As long as there is no spell check available on the forums and some of us are forced to use M$ products at work, this is an issue I would like to see addressed.

Happy new year to everybody! Hopefully this will be a year that will see many positive changes in

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2004

John Collier — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 11:28:31 GMT

this forum..

John

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2004

Laurie Gellatly — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 17:32:53 GMT

Hi Dan,
Firstly, keep up the good work. It is appreciated.

Suggestions:
1) Is it possible to catch duplicate posts
from people when they submit the same thing
twice (either questions or replies?)

2) To encourage people to assign points, I
wonder if making their "% points assigned to
questions asked" more visable would help?
Kinda like the hat idea in that if you have
assigned points for every question you've asked
then you enjoy maybe a smiley face and if the %
was really low and the questions asked high
then the face would be less pleasing!

...Laurie :{)

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2004

Michael Tully — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 20:40:27 GMT

Hi Dan,

I tried to post to this thread twice, where I had a fairly long link to page at partsurfer.hp.com

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=353426

The format of the page is qacky and most of answer has not been pasted.

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2004

Michael Tully — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 03:27:26 GMT

Well obviously IE has done it again ... Mozilla from home works perfectly for that posting .... figure that out ...

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2004

Ron Kinner — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 10:39:02 GMT

Since we seem to be talking about a wishlist:

It would be nice to see the poster's last post in the thread (along with his name!) as well as (or instead of) the original post. On a long thread the original post becomes less useful than the last post.

I also wish HP had a working search engine which could be limited to searching a particular subforum (and one which assumed I wanted a + in front of each word or could be configured as part of my profile to search for all words and not just any). It should respond a lot faster than the current piece of junk. I can run 5 google queries in the same time that the HP search bicycle returns "nothing found."

Ron

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2004

Kimberly Ann — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 13:13:29 GMT

Pete, thanks for the maintaining the list.

Steven, point noted.

Geoff, not sure, but I'll ask the search folks. It likely has to do with the differing alogrithms used to find results -- not that its a good thing.

John, the lab is working on these now and hope to have it in a next release soon.

Laurie, dupes are not allowed if exactly the same message and title are submitted...if you see a dupe, let us know..thanks.

Michael, your thread is cleaned up. Used the free site at http://tinyurl.com/ to shorten the URLs. Very cool...and good to know it is browser related -- will let the lab know.

Ron, thanks for the feedback...I've heard having the author's name in the reply window, but not the last reply. Will consider that one.

Regards,
Dan

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2004

Pete Randall — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 13:17:16 GMT

Dan,

Concerning the last reply suggestion, I would think the best way to accomplish this might be to have the reply window be a pop-up. That way the entire thread would still be available in the original window.

Pete

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2004

Todd McDaniel_1 — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 17:38:16 GMT

I agree with Ron K...

If we could search by sub-forum it would be great!! It would make it infinitely easier imho...

Also, to have a search by USER name... might be nice...not a drop list but merely a fill-in-the-blank.

One other small thing... I would like to see if we can have on our profile pages is a list of our posts separated this way:

NEW ....1) no points awarded yet
current 2) 0-7 points
current 3) 8-10 points

Not a big deal but would be nice...

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2004

Pete Randall — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 08:31:03 GMT

Dan,

Since December's thread just got posted to again, I thought I'd bounce this back up to the top.

Ping!

Pete

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2004

John Collier — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:19:16 GMT

Hereâ s a thought for you to kick around.

Since AMD has put out their newest 32/64 bit capable chip and it has already been noted publicly that HP will offer such a system to the public, why not start another section for issues with these new chips?

Personally, I have found myself in a position of having to build another machine right now and have decided to try the newest Opteron out, but I donâ t know where to go in the forum to get support on it.

You have supported the newest innovations that HP has gotten into in the past, why not this one?

On the flip side for now, could anybody give me a pointer as to where I might go in this vast forum for support on these chips until Dan and group make this a reality?

Thanks!

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2004

Jean-Luc Oudart — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:07:51 GMT

Dan,

this was from last month but did not get any answer on this one.

Am I ignored ?

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Dan,

still "blank" thread :

The following thread brings up an empty page :
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=313106

Jean-Luc

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many thanks
Jean-Luc

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2004

Robert-Jan Goossens — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:59:42 GMT

Hi Dan,

Not trying to nitpick here, but could you explain to me why the most active forums contain 0 posts ?

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/home.do?admit=716493758+1074009451777+28353475

Kind regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2004

Kimberly Ann — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:40:32 GMT

Jean-Luc, sorry you are not ignored, but maybe forgotten? A fix for this has been created and is being test and awaiting production. The blank page you see is one that was removed.

Robert-Jan, thanks for pointing this out...good eyes. Looks like a bug that needs squashing.

Thanks,
Dan

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2004

John Collier — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:48:35 GMT

Jean-Luc,

Consider yourself lucky. You are not ignored while others seem to be.

Interesting how that works :-/