topic Re: Please Post Forums Issues - November/December 2004 in Operating System - HP-UX

Please Post Forums Issues - November/December 2004

Kimberly Ann — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 17:25:57 GMT

Hi All,

Sorry for the late November post.

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

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 November/December at:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=732323

Thanks to everyone for your continued feedback. Have at it Pete....

Best regards,
Dan

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - November/December 2004

Peter Leddy_1 — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 05:19:12 GMT

Hi Dan,

Here's one I just thought about, might not be practical though.

Would it be possible to disable a notification for a thread when it is closed/locked, I know I won't get anymore notifications but it clogs up my notifications section in my profile. I know I'll check the thread when I get the closed notification email but then I have to disable it myself and with the response times for the site at the moment it's quite annoying waiting so long for it.

Anyway it's not really an issue just a tiny enhancement or maybe I'm just getting lazier.

Thanks,

Peter

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - November/December 2004

John Poff — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 09:14:23 GMT

Hi Dan,

How practical would it be to have a feature where you could enter certain keywords and have the forum send you an e-mail if a thread is opened that contains one or more of those keywords in the subject?

For example, someone could have the keywords "ServiceGuard LVM XP1024" in their list, and any time someone opens a new thread with one of those keywords they would get an e-mail, similar to the current thread notification e-mail.

Just an idea. I'm sure the wonderful development folks there don't have anything else to work on. ;)

JP

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - November/December 2004

Geoff Wild — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 11:55:00 GMT

Why does a search for "lbolt" NOT return anything?

http://us-support.external.hp.com/emse/bin/doc.pl/sid=e2cd580c0d29e2db0d?todo=search&searchtext=lbolt&searchcriteria=allwords&searchtype=SEARCH_FORUMS&searchcategory=ALL&rn=25&presort=rank

Yet, I know there are posts in there:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=523283

To be honest, searching has been abysmal to say the least...

Another example, I know I have made posts about using the addqueue command - but when I search - none of the threads I posted in turn up...

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - November/December 2004

Fred Ruffet — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 05:07:50 GMT

This one :
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=711455

may probably be found in HP-UX.

Regards,

Fred

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - November/December 2004

Gary Cooper_1 — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 06:51:39 GMT

Dan,

When you do an ITRC forum search from the ITRC search page (http://europe-support.external.hp.com/emse/bin/doc.pl), it would be really useful if it listed the forum section for each result. Sometimes, the subjcet sounds really promising, but when you look at the thread, it's for a topic you're not interested in.

Regards,

Gary

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - November/December 2004

Geoff Wild — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 10:54:43 GMT

And yet another search that produces no results:

mirror root

http://tinyurl.com/5vzgk

Intersting thing is, from the "Advanced Search"page it works...

Does that mean the "Standard Search" page is broken?

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - November/December 2004

Fred Ruffet — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 11:42:58 GMT

About the common "how to make people assign points" :

People shouldn't be able to close a thread without having assigned points.
I was participating to this thread :
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=733364
where author says that SEP gave him the solution, but nobody saw a point and author closed the thread.

Regards,

Fred

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - November/December 2004

Ganesh Babu — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 16:40:25 GMT

here is an advertisement thread.. i think our forums don't encourage people to advertise their products here..

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=733637

Ganesh

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - November/December 2004

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 20:46:22 GMT

Just wanted to day.

Past two days, did a lot of posting and did it with Opera, Mozilla, even IE and had no troubles.

A good sign. Sometimes you gotta report good things.

Here is a revision on Pete's list. I don't know why he hasn't chimed in, but its considerably shorter than last months. I'm leaving off items he said were resolved and adding my own items:

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. SEP note. There seems to be a lot of data lost in backlogged response center calls. My 2002 stuff looks like a foreign language. I use that content for itrc and internal use and it needs to be cleaned up.

2) 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. SEP endorses this concept. Yeah!

3) 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.

4) Could we possibly have a real, functional search engine? Please?? SEP note. Bill Hassell explained to me at HP-World why the search engine doesn't work. Just wondering why we can't have our own that does work for ITRC?

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

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

7) 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).

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

9) A new hat for the 50,000 point level. SEP note. Not an ugly hat please.

10) No bunny's without point assignment, re closing a thread clicking solved. If the user clicks solved and no bunnies are assigned, dump them back to the point assignment screen. I don't need em, but the up and coming crowd deserves "payment" for their work.

Apologies to Pete if I stole his thunder.

I find I look forward to his monthly post for the entertainment value.

Nice job fixinig the posting problem (I hope).

:-)

Steve

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - November/December 2004

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 13:25:31 GMT

Please change the title on this thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=734418

To ias 10G ...

Don't know if it will make a difference, but a mistake is a mistake.

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - November/December 2004

Jan van den Ende — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 15:16:59 GMT

SEP,

how about a real, original Victorian English bowler hat?

Maybe accompanied by the title "His Distinguished ITRC Lordship" (and someone please get the inspiration for a female version, that is, if we really need that, female royalty is also officially named "King", maybe we can agree that Her Distinguished Ladyship officially also carry the load of the male title).

fwiw

Cheers.

Have one on me.

Jan

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - November/December 2004

Jan van den Ende — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 15:43:23 GMT

Wel.....

speaking about closed threads with unassigned postings:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=712457

Sorry Dan, couldn't resist :-) :-0 8

Cheers!!!

Join me in a beer.

Jan

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - November/December 2004

Pete Randall — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 06:51:52 GMT

Steve,

Thanks for covering for me - I was on vacation last week and wasn't able to post my "issues".

Pete

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - November/December 2004

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 06:55:01 GMT

Please move http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=736358 to databases

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - November/December 2004

Antoniov. — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 12:04:59 GMT

Dan,
my list
1) Stop sending notification e-mail until user has returned on thread (now I'm disabling notification)
2) Can be enable some type of tag to give more powerful to message? I think mainly a code tag to avoid justification; when I have to write some source code example it is not readable :-(

Thank you
Antonio Vigliotti

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - November/December 2004

Cheryl Griffin — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 12:39:13 GMT

Merijn - moved that thread.
Thanks!

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - November/December 2004

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 08:58:38 GMT

Linux has a congrats thread for a user that has substantial points in HP-UX as well.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=737366

It has the unique quality of not being started by me, cheif linux congratulator. Oooo! New word.

Back in my corner.

SEP

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - November/December 2004

Antoniov. — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:55:45 GMT

Hi HP moderators,
my english is poor but last answer of this thread http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=670157&admit=716493758+1100184603867+28353475
sound me a bit offensive.
Sorry if is not true.

Antonio Vigliotti

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - November/December 2004

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:00:27 GMT

I have to agree with Antoniov on that thread. That type of response has no place here.