Please Post Forums Issues - October 2005

[Gavin Clarke]

Oh and Cisco (am I allowed to mention them) use google for their search engine.

Cheers.

[Marlou Everson]

The search engine definitely needs an overhaul. I used to use the old Supportline (dial-up) for MPE issues. It's search results were very good.

With the rather uninformative subjects on some threads, I feel that a good search engine is even more important. I either get nothing or a big list of items that don't seem to apply. Sometimes only Google works.

This is a great source of information, but not always that easy to search through.

Marlou

[Alex Lavrov.]

Please remove my thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=964277

I prefer to post it here, since more ppl will look into it here, than there.

Thanx.

[Hein van den Heuvel]

A little late to the party perhaps, but I have a problem with Michael's reply, and the echos thereof in this topic 'attacking' Arun.

I looked at a few more of Arun's replies and I do not see a problem, just a friend, trying to help like the rest of us.

Then I looked further at the reply, and found that it is in fact verbatim the two relevant lines from the MAN PAGES TEXT for top.
So obviously the text is the same, as it appears to have came from the same source, BUT IT PROBABLY WAS NOT A COPY OF A PRIOR REPLY.
I would have liked to see both Muthukumar, and Arun point out that the solution came form the man pages, but that is a very minor complaint. Both were trying to help. Both deserve the same points.
It is just too much trouble to go back and see if an answer was provided between you seeing the question and being ready for submit. That said, I am crazy enough to do it if I get distracted for a significant time before finalizing an answer.

Lesson here?

Never assume malice when it could be explained by bad timing!

fwiw,
Hein.

[Gavin Clarke]

Well said Hein,

I thought it, but wasn't man enough to check out the idea.

:-)

[Stephen Keane]

People who never assign points. People who refer you to another thread with a similar problem to your own, but also unsolved. There is a certain camaraderie in being stuck in a similar position, but it can get a little depressing.

Can we have negative hats? Say a dunce's cap or something for repeat offenders.

[Gavin Clarke]

On the subject of links to threads that don't solve the problem.

Although not a perfect solution all it really takes is the owner of the thread to write back and say, "Thanks, that link (those links) didn't solve my problem".

I find that these forums have less unresolved threads than say google groups, in my opinion.

I started to look seriously at the forums when google pointed me back to answers on the itrc forums time and time again.

We should embrace the diversity of the forum community, people use it for different reasons and have a different understanding of what the forums are here for.

Within certain parameters (which the moderators maintain) this will almost always be the case, it's human nature and part of the learning process.

I sometimes post links when I think the thread might solve the asker's question or it is the best information I can find.

There are lots of answers in itrc threads which the search engine doesn't always turn up or highlight.

I guess this is a bit of a rant. I hope you realise that it is well intentioned.

[Steven E. Protter]

Stephen, see the thumbs down symbol on Alex's stats website.

SEP

[Stephen Keane]

SEP,

good oh, which Alex? do you have a link to his (her?) stats page?

[Pete Randall]

Stephen,

http://www.volac.info/itrcstats/


Pete

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

http://www.volac.info/itrcstats/

It's Alex' way of representing my stats, and he's doing a VERY good job there!

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn

[Pete Randall]

Actually, this is a better link:

http://www.volac.info/itrcstats/users.php


Pete

[Stephen Keane]

Thanks guys, I've bookmarked that last link.

[Patrick Wallek]

Another example of the broke search engine here. Put 'bdfmegs' in the search field. Nothing gets returned.

Go to google and get plenty of threads from the Forums with reference to the bdfmegs script.

The search engine is definitely the weakest link in the forums and we've been complaining about it for a LONG TIME. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE figure something out to fix it.

[Eric Antunes]

Hi moderators,

Since this morning, when trying to reply to a post, I get "The system is currently unavailable. Please try again later.

wpa-pl-wpaframework-10000"

Now it is working...

Best Regards,

Eric Antunes

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

Duplicate threads. remove one without answers.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=964910
&
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=964911

Regards,
Devender

[Jan van den Ende]

Cheryl, Dan,

a question on Winebloze & SAN, which is definitely out of place in VMS:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=963618

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Jan van den Ende]

... and HPUX lost in VMS land:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=965696

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Muthukumar_5]

Plz move this thread to HP-UX.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=965989

thx.

[Dave La Mar]

Cheryl and Dan-
I have been using Netscape 7.1 for some years when accessing the ITRC. I had switched from Explorer due to issues with that tool and ITRC.

Recently, I can no longer open attachments on posts.

1. They do open with Explorer.
2. They download with Netscape 8.0.4

Something change?

Regards,

dl

[Patrick Wallek]

I have just replied to this thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=967661

My reply shows up if I go back and look at the thread. However, the reply count is still showing zero.

Am I no longer worthy of having my replies counted? ;)

[Patrick Wallek]

OK, I'm not going crazy! Honest!!!

After I submitted my previous reply here, I went back to the HP-UX family home and the thread I referenced above is now showing a reply count of 1.

There was about a 2 minute time lag there though. Something seems a bit fishy......

[Dave La Mar]

Cheryl and Dan -
The resolution to the problem I noted three posts back appears to have been a known problem.

For other users that may encounter this the solution is:

DELETE the compreg.dat file, located in the C:\Program Files\Netscape\Netscape\components folder.

Make sure you exit Netscape completely, including QuickLaunch, before deleting the compreg.dat file. It will be recreated when you next start Netscape.

Netscape 7.1 is outdated and buggy, and deleting the compreg.dat file is only a temporary solution since the problem tends to return. If you want to know more about this bug, see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203689

====================================================
I was just not comfortable with the latest 8.0.4 version of Netscape.

My apologies for spamming the board.

Regards,

dl

[Devender Khatana]

Hi Cheryl/Dan,


Triplicate threads. Merge replies to one and remove other two.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=967770
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=967771
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=967772

Regards,
Devender

[Roger Faucher]

Hello Dan and Cheryl:

I think this thread was started in error:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=967893

Thanks and make a great day!

Roger