topic Re: Forums Will Be UnavialableThis Weekend in Operating System - HP-UX

Forums Will Be UnavialableThis Weekend

Kimberly Ann — Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:13:22 GMT

Hi All,

You will experience service disruption this weekend while accessing the ITRC Forums due to a scheduled software upgrade and site maintenance. The forums will not be available from Sept 19th 2003 20:00 EDT until Sept 21st 18:00 EDT. We apologize for any inconvenience. The site will be made available at the earliest possible time once the maintenance is complete.

We appreciate your understanding and patience during this time of unavailability.

Thanks,
Dan

Re: Forums Will Be UnavialableThis Weekend

John Bolene — Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:47:13 GMT

And thank you very much for letting us know. Domo arigato gozaimasu

Most of us do not access the main forum page.

Re: Forums Will Be UnavialableThis Weekend

Patrick Wallek — Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:34:54 GMT

Dan,

Is this upgrade a behind the scenes type of thing, or will there be some obvious to us when we access next week? Anything on Pete's wish list getting implemented?

Re: Forums Will Be UnavialableThis Weekend

Kimberly Ann — Fri, 19 Sep 2003 20:59:48 GMT

Hi Patrick,

There is some behind the scenes maintenance going on along with an upgrade. If all goes well, we'll be able to deploy a few enhancements. I'll let everyone know more on Sunday as to what we were able to get to.

Thanks,
Dan

Re: Forums Will Be UnavialableThis Weekend

Steven E. Protter — Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:00:56 GMT

From what I've seen thus far, visually, it looks pretty nice.

Thanks for all your hard work.

SEP

Re: Forums Will Be UnavialableThis Weekend

Patrick Wallek — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:28:32 GMT

Hey Dan,

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So far I really like what I see.

I love the posting date and the last reply date. I like the borders around everything. I especially the requirement to select a category for a new post and if you don't select one, you get told to.

OK. I tried posting the above with Opera and it didn't work. Also, the font when using MS IE seems to be awfully small.

Hmmm.....The preview is a good feature, but it appears that ANY/ALL spaces, including blank lines between paragraphs are now deleted. Not necessarily good.

Hopefully there are still some things left to do today?

Many kudos to you and the Forums development team!

Re: Forums Will Be UnavialableThis Weekend

Jay Bollyn — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 16:14:41 GMT

Dan,

I join Patrick in hoping the spaces and blank lines return. I think it enhances readability and is esthetically pleasing, to have a little "white space" here and there.

Overall, great job with the upgrade! Hope you get some comp time for these weekend hours.

:-) Jay

Re: Forums Will Be UnavialableThis Weekend

Michael Tully — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 17:24:29 GMT

Hi Dan,

Love what I see so far, columns, reply numbers, dates, add to favourites .... One thing, the 'Author' column I think could ne a little wider. The name looks a little cramped. Overall good job!

Cheers
Michael
(back after two weeks off) :(

Re: Forums Will Be UnavialableThis Weekend

Jeff Schussele — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:42:10 GMT

Ok this is different & interesting.
Going to reserve judgement to let it soak in.

Rgds,
Jeff

Re: Forums Will Be UnavialableThis Weekend

Alexander M. Ermes — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 00:31:43 GMT

Hi there.
Do you really have to turn upside down every time you change something ?
;-)
Good ideas by the way.
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

Re: Forums Will Be UnavialableThis Weekend

Bruno Ganino — Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:50:38 GMT

Dan, see here (Thor Austheim have Crown, but isn't true)

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/parseCurl.do?CURL=%2Fcm%2FQuestionAnswer%2F1%2C%2C0xd450cb795014cc4cb4367a51c8c39d57%2C00.html&admit=716493758+1064410976808+28353475

Bruno

Re: Forums Will Be UnavialableThis Weekend

Kimberly Ann — Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:10:59 GMT

Bruno, thanks. We are correcting this problem now. It appears as though a user with no points "inherits" the hat of previous poster. This will be cleared up soon.

Thanks,
Dan

Re: Forums Will Be UnavialableThis Weekend

Ralph Grothe — Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:26:12 GMT

Dan,

what has happened to the ITRC Forums?

For the last couple of days I haven't been able to get access to the forums.
(my whereabouts are Berlin, Germany)

And though today was the first time I could access ITRC Forums again I still get nothing displayed when I click on a link to a thread.

Re: Forums Will Be UnavialableThis Weekend

malvin drakley — Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:34:21 GMT

why do we not get a daily e-mail any more with all the posted problems on our chosen forums?
malvin

Re: Forums Will Be UnavialableThis Weekend

Kimberly Ann — Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:49:50 GMT

Hi Malvin and Ralph,

We just deployed a new forums site that has a new architecture. You may have noticed some of the new features that were included. The daily notification will be sent today.

Ralph, what browser are you using?

Thanks,
Dan

Re: Forums Will Be UnavialableThis Weekend

malvin drakley — Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:54:43 GMT

Dan, that response was "faster than a speeding bullet" but where has the points allocation bit gone now
thanks
malvin

Re: Forums Will Be UnavialableThis Weekend

George_Dodds — Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:00:01 GMT

Ah ha

I knew there was a reason i was going away this weekend. :)

Cheers

George

Re: Forums Will Be UnavialableThis Weekend

Antoniov. — Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:54:43 GMT

Hi Dan,
how can known this advice the other forum that don't look into ux forum?
I've not seen this notice;
... and I believe the general question on forum was posted in other section so I wrote this
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=224062
and I post this
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=224456
and also hp user has post thishttp://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=224479
Please, where I can find the ITRC general question?
Thanx
Antoniov

Re: Forums Will Be UnavialableThis Weekend

Umapathy S — Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:01:44 GMT

WOW. I never knew this. There is a section for "your questions regarding ITRC Forums".

But since Dan used to open issues thread here, I thought hpux-general section is the one which moderates.

Thanks Antoniov
cheers
Umapathy

Re: Forums Will Be UnavialableThis Weekend

John Collier — Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:40:00 GMT

Dan,

Back on the line of the recent changes to the forum:

I would like to ad my voice to those that have already said that the preview button was a good idea. It's nice to be able to review the submission prior to making official.

The thing that I don't like is the total elimination of white space in a person's entry. This entry here, for example, should have more than one single paragraph, but it is all ran together.

In my humble, uneducated opinion this is NOT a good thing. It makes it rather difficult to read. It also makes the issue of (for example) where one script ends and another begins without having to make two different entries to the same ticket.

One other bit of information for you. Since your service doesn't offer a spell checker, some of us will use an application such as M$ Word to type out our messages prior to putting them into the forums. Prior to this change, it was no problem to do this with a simple copy/paste. Now there is a new challenge involved due to the fact that when you copy some things (such as the ever-common apostrophe) you will get strange characters in you post that you must manually deal with. Not a desirable thing in the long run.

Sorry for rambling, but I appreciate you taking the time to address these issues.

Have a great day!