topic Re: Please Post Forums Issues - April 2005 in Operating System - HP-UX

Please Post Forums Issues - April 2005

Cheryl Griffin — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 13:47:54 GMT

Hi Everyone,

Please provide feedback on any technical issues you may encounter while using the forums during April.

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 April at:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=848184

Thanks to everyone for your continued feedback.

Best regards,
Cheryl and Dan

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - April 2005

Pete Randall — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 13:56:37 GMT

Dan/Cheryl,

My monthly attempt to summarize the most grievous, most oft-repeated issues

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. Other examples point out that the benefit of
the ITRC database as a resource has been severely compromised. An excellent
dialog on wiping disks via various commands has now been rendered non-sensical
because much of it has been lost.

*Has something been done to fix this? I searched out the disk-wiping thread
( http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x24b53a7b3682d611abdb0090277a7
78c,00.html )
*and discovered that it seems to read OK now. By the same token, checking a
*couple of my old congratulatory posts shows that parts are still missing???

2) a. Allow a thread to be closed without it being moved to the top of the list.
...b. No points - no bunny
...c. (my personal opinion) Is the close facility really necessary?

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) 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.

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

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

7) Allow for formatted text that does not lose spaces, so script snippets can
be understood.

8) 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).

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

10) A new hat for the 50,000 point level.

11) Is it possible to fix it so the "javascript.open" function works the
same in different browsers - in Netscape, firefox, Opera, etc., the link
opens in the same window.

Pete

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - April 2005

Tim D Fulford — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 02:54:02 GMT

Hi

I do not know if this is a problem or it is simply a all systems normal...

The user "Roland Rebstock" posted a thread, then he put comments in thread (how do I asign points etc) but rather than being ientified as "Question Author" he has the tag "unassigned"...

I'm guessing this is because he has two identical login IDs, (well there are certainly two IDs; CA781253 & CA1030827), but how can there be two identical user names!!!?

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/publicProfile.do?userId=CA781253&forumId=1
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/publicProfile.do?userId=CA1030827&forumId=1

Thread at...
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=845814

Regards

Tim

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - April 2005

Pete Randall — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 05:38:26 GMT

Tim,

User names do not have to be unique. Scroll through the list of all users from the main page and you'll see many duplicates. Or try registering as Tim Fulford again!

Pete

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - April 2005

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 07:31:16 GMT

Could someone move this thread to the HPUX section please ?

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=848003

Thanks,
Robert-Jan

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - April 2005

Gary Cantwell — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 10:19:35 GMT

Hi RJ,

Thanks for that, moved

see you tomorrow!

Gary

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - April 2005

Pete Randall — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:06:35 GMT

Since shortly before 10:00 AM EDT, unable to post replies:

"Error while posting the reply. "

Pete

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - April 2005

Pete Randall — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:21:57 GMT

Well, now that I can post again, this needs to go away:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=851200

Pete

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - April 2005

Gary Cantwell — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:27:06 GMT

Thanks Pete (and RJ) for the heads up,

deleted,

Gary

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - April 2005

Zinky — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:50:52 GMT

Cheryl,

Any feed back on an earlier request to have a VxVM Category under HP-UX?

Thanks!

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - April 2005

MarkSyder — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 10:27:53 GMT

OK I fell for it - Harry saw it for what it was and I thought it was innocent.

Please remove http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/postanswer.do?threadid=851210

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - April 2005

melvyn burnard — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 10:32:31 GMT

Removed

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - April 2005

Pete Randall — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 10:33:35 GMT

Mark,

I think Harry had seen the previous post from the same person that I had asked to have removed. It was a blatant recruitment ad!

Pete

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - April 2005

harry d brown jr — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 10:36:27 GMT

I was going to reply to the "recruitment post" that I'd take the position for 150K :-)

My oldest son goes to college at keystone.edu

live free or die
harry d brown jr

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - April 2005

Pete Randall — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 06:01:59 GMT

I'm still getting the "Error while posting the reply. " problem this morning (0600 - 0700 EDT). Persistence pays off, but it sure is annoying.

Pete

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - April 2005

Devender Khatana — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 02:07:25 GMT

Cheryl/Dan,

These two threads are same. Remove one atleast if possible.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=852342

and

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=852340

Regards,
Devender

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - April 2005

melvyn burnard — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 02:39:18 GMT

Thanks Devender
Removed the thread with only one response

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - April 2005

Florian Heigl (new acc) — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:10:26 GMT

I would also like to emphasize Petes point no. 5 - the search engine.

I wanted to post back on a thread about the A3740 FC Adapter from february and did not get the search engine to find it - I only got back to that thread by searching through the 'my responses' section of the forums profile.
Now I noticed that the issue was that the Adapter is called A3740A, but I'm not happy anyway - seems I'd best keep a website full of links to the threads instead of searching.

Also, I'd like to add that the performance is quite bad from germany, even here at the 34mbit/s customer site.
there are times when a simply refresh of the site will take >15 seconds, and skipping from page 1 to page 2 takes even longer.

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - April 2005

Antoniov. — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 01:59:09 GMT

I'm with Pete about Engine Search.
ITRC forums have a lot of usefull information and it's absolutely illogical Google find thread better than internal search :-?

Antonio Vigliotti

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - April 2005

Jan van den Ende — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 01:27:15 GMT

And my voice to Pete, Florian & Antonio.

Guess we will be forming quite a choir this way...

Furthermore, I want to repeat that this thread really belongs in Forums Issues. It certainly is NOT restricted to HPUX issues!

Proost.

Have one on me.

Jan