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Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

 
Cheryl Griffin
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Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

Hi Everyone,

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

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=776760

Thanks to everyone for your continued feedback.
Happy New Year

Best regards,
Cheryl and Dan
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Steven E. Protter
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Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

Thank You Cheryl for starting the new thread.

Happy New Year to the forums crowd. A healthy, profitable year for all. ITRC should grow and reach new level of utility, reliability and membership.

SEP
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Antoniov.
Honored Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

Cheryl,
Happy New Year!
New job for HP moderators ...
I guess this thread http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=776539
should be moved into windows xp forum.
Thanks a lot!

Antonio Vigliotti
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Pete Randall
Outstanding Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

Dan (or Cheryl in this case),

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.

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.

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??

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.

Pete

Pete
Cheryl Griffin
Honored Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

Moved the thread to XP.
Thanks Antonio

Thanks Pete - I'll double check that everything you mentioned is already on the enhancement list.
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Antoniov.
Honored Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

Cheryl,
quick job done!

Antonio Vigliotti
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Chris Vail
Honored Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

Hey guys.............
I'd like to see my total points on the title screen when I login, and not have to go to the "all members" page to see if anyone has assigned to me points recently.

And as for which "hat" to assign people with huge numbers of points, I suggest Dust Puppy for 50,000 and Erwin for 100,000 [people not familiar with these can check the archives http://www.userfriendly.org]. The author, Illiad, will probably license the images for very little or nothing--he's broke.

Chris
Mei Jiao
Respected Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

Hi happy new year!

This thread should be moved to the OV Omniback/Data Protector section:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=778861

Thank you.
Gary Cantwell
Honored Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

Thanks Mei Jiao,

Moved....

Gary
Jay Bollyn
Honored Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

Hi Cheryl and Dan,

I would like to 'pile on' regarding Pete's (4) point - inadequate HP Forum search utility.

I don't know if anyone saw '60 Minutes' last week. They ran a long segment which focussed on google. This company does one thing very well - SEARCH.

Because HP obviously has other (more pressing) priorities, I suggest HP simply PAY google to fix the HP Forum search problem.

Am I being too simplistic?

Thanks for listening to my rant.

:-) Jay
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Eric Antunes
Honored Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

Hi Cheryl and Dan,

I think I've already read some posts about the search engine. Anyway, the search definitively doesn't work well with the option "all words":

I was searching for threads with "sshd[" and "syslog" words and the search engine tells me:

"Your search for " sshd[ syslog " produced no results! "

But, after serching with just "sshd[", I found this thread with also the "syslog" word in it:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=716493758+1104927994561+28353475&threadId=267234

Are you people using one of those funny databases that crashes with more than 20Gb?? :)

Kindest Regards,

Eric Antunes
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Patrick Wallek
Honored Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

Cheryl / Dan,

Enhancement Request (Pete could you possibly add this to your monthly list?) ---

Allow a thread to be closed without it being moved to the top of the list. A person closed several threads today, some from 2001, and it really cluttered the top of the HP-UX forum.

With threads this old, we really should be able to close them without moving them up in the list.

I would close a bunch of my old ones, but I don't want to clutter things up that much.
MarkSyder
Honored Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

I agree with Patrick. Although, as I have said in the past, is it really necessary to close old threads? I can understand it in the case of congratulations threads that somehow become re-activated after two years, but I have lots of old threads open that I don't intend touching.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)
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Pete Randall
Outstanding Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

Patrick,

I've been contemplating what position I want to take concerning thread closure, since I'm actually against it in the first place, but your request quite nicely avoids the pro's and con's of the practice itself, so I think I can reasonably accomodate you without compromising my principles. Tune in next month!!


Pete

Pete
Steven E. Protter
Exalted Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

A request that I'd like added to Pete's list, but will make whether or not he agrees. ;-)

No bunny display on closed threads without actually bunnified point assignment.

I purposely worded this request contrary to normal linguistic issues.

SEP
Steven E Protter
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Pete Randall
Outstanding Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

OK, I agree with everybody!!!!

I agree with Patrick that they should be closed without floating to the top (.... floats, you know).

I agree with Mark that there doesn't seem to be much point in closing old, inactive threads. If someone wants to jump onto an old congrats thread of mine, I'll be more then happy to give them zero points for their efforts.

I agree with Steve that there should not be an ability to place a bunny on a thread without actually assigning a bunny to one of the responses (at least that's the way I interpreted his wording).

I'll see if I can work all that into next month's issues in a coherent form.


Pete

Pete
Cheryl Griffin
Honored Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

I know that the "don't bubble closed threads to the top" is on the chalkboard as is rethinking the closing/points/bunny issue.

Thanks to you all for the good feedback.
"Downtime is a Crime."
Stuart Browne
Honored Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

Hi,

Carry over from previous thread.

On the main page ( http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/home.do?forumId=1 ), there's a link for posting or reading forum successes. It points to the closed august 2004 thread.

New one though, Procura did his wonderful job again this month with the January stats. I don't think it was intentional that he called it the "Januari" stats though.

Happy new years all! Hopefully we'll just get bigger and better again this year!
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Sanjay_6
Honored Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

Gary Cantwell
Honored Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

Thanks Sanjay,

removed....

Gary
Geoff Wild
Honored Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

Searching still doesn't return results expected:

swinstall A read or write lock was denied

no reuults with ITRC, but on google:

Returns this thread:
IT Resource Center forums - swintall error
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=80735

Rgds...Geoff
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Steven E. Protter
Exalted Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

I have a guidance and practices question on this thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=781293

Is it appropriate to deliver the depots to RAC. Also in Cheryl and Dan's email.

SEP
Steven E Protter
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Steven E. Protter
Exalted Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

A post in need of a new home.

If I knew what he was talking about I could be more specific.

Nice job on the other thing.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=781445

SEP
Steven E Protter
Owner of ISN Corporation
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http://hpuxconsulting.com
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Jay Bollyn
Honored Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

Hi 'Interested Parties',

I agree with Patrick. I author quite a few congrats threads, mostly in BSF. I would prefer these closed threads *not* percolate to the top of the list.

However, I would not prioritize this highly. IMHO, there are more pressing issues. E.g.:

MY #1 FORUM ISSUE:

Any Author closing his thread (if points have not been assigned) a bunny WILL NOT APPEAR.

That's it! Am I not easy to please?

:-) Jay (who is still smiling)
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Gary Cantwell
Honored Contributor

Re: Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

Thanks SEP,

NC 6000 thread moved to Workstations,

Cheers,

Gary