Please Post Your Forums Issues - June/July 2004!

[Jeff Schussele]

SEP!

Stop & step AWAY from the keyboard!
Idle hands - they say 8~()

I say pull it - I have a little more sympathy for job-seekers.

Sheesh the poster is using nothing but anons.
Hmmmmmm.......I *wonder* just why they're doing that.....

My 2 cents,
Jeff

[Ganesh Babu]

Duplicate threads..

one with answer..
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=620566


no answer the duplicate thread..
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=620565


Ganesh

[Gary Cantwell]

Thanks Ganesh,

Duplicate removed

[Chris Wilshaw]

There's a problem with the member status links at the moment. clicking on any of the hats takes you to a page showing

No Members found for this sort order. Try another one.

[Manish Srivastava]

Hi,

I see many a times the author of the question is satisfied with the solution but never assigns points to mark the question as answered. Can we have a reminder for the author if no points are assigned.

Another thing is that when we write some script/code and send it in the reply all the tabs and spaces are lost. Can we have a method to preserve it.

manish

[MarkSyder]

Manish,

There's nothing to stop individual members from reminding people to assign points - indeed plenty do. Personally, I prefer it if the person who asks for points to be assigned is someone who hasn't contributed to the thread: otherwise it could look like "Please give me some points".

But I agree that we shouldn't need to do this. It's usually easy to see which post fixed a fault. Perhaps a moderator could award 10 points if the author doesn't make an award after a given time interval?

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Bharat Katkar]

Hi All,

I was expecting some comments for this.

"
Refer to my forum profile below. I am wondering why i am not able to see my question in descending (latest first, which normally happens) order. I am only able to see it after i click on "more". Actually my last question should be listed first so that it is easy to keep track of it.
"

Thanks,
Bharat

[Manish Srivastava]

Hi Mark,

I agree with you, the moderator can assign the points if the question i answered.

I had another suggestion:

while we are in a thread do we need the "New Message" button enabled? I think it willnot take much to disable it and avoid any chance of members starting a new thread when they are replying to a question.

manish

[Patrick Wallek]

Manish -- I agree with your point about the "new message" button when reading a post. I have been asking for exactly what you suggest for about 2 years now. Yo Dan --- You listening? :)

I disagree with the point about moderators assigning points. I don't think they will want to start doing that. That could take up a WHOLE LOT of their time. You must keep in mind that the folks with the HP logo by their name are HP employees with full-time jobs OTHER THAN forums stuff.

[Manish Srivastava]

Hi,

hmm...going by the stats moderators will be in a lot of trouble assiging points.


manish

[Peter Leddy_1]

Hi,

I think this thread is meant for the Tru64 forum.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=621649

Peter

[Fabio Ettore]

Hi again Dan,

an enhancement that I thouhgt could be the following: when an user wants to post a new thread it should appear a BIG BANNER with title:

Please read and take knowledge about Forums Etiquette guidelines of Patrick:
http://66.34.90.71/ITRCForumsEtiquette/

I think that it is important in order to do this forum more useful for future references. I mean that a lot of users that post new threads with his/her problems often don't let know us about the solution and I think it is bad. If an ITRC search is launched a lot of threads are founded but many of them don't contain the final solution and no points assigned. Then search really becomes useless!!! Because I think that it is useless to find an ITRC thread if it doesn't contain a solution. Of course not all problems can be solved and contain solutions but many of them could that.

I think that this forum is not as other forums and would be good to have knowledge about Etiquette. This should do Patrick's effort more considerable!

Best regards,
Ettore

[Steven E. Protter]

Jeff,

I think I said three times the post should be pulled. The fact that it exists may point out to a need that can be fulfilled with a thread tailored to that need.

I stand by that position. My two cents.

Dan,

In other news, I've been experiencing some long,long posting times between midnight and 2 a.m.

Seems like that old networking problem. Since I now know that its an oracle backend, am I perhaps bumping my mouse against an Oracle hot backup?

There may be something that can be done to make that more efficient. Perhaps a quick database down, OnlineJFS snapshot followed by a database up.

You know the old block relocation trick. Thats assuming you can get away with cycling the database and that doesn't make the problem worse. Just a suggestion.

SEP

[Pete Randall]

Here's a thread that could be removed:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=621751

At this point, mine is the only response and there are no points so feel free to blow it away!

Thanks,
Pete

[Mel Burslan]

I think this poor soul is has accidentally fallen into the wrong sandbox :)

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=621724

Cheers...

[Kimberly Ann]

Hi All, just some feedback:

Chris, must have been a 'down' moment - the lists are working for me now. Let me know if the continue to be an issue.

Manish, it is an age old question -- how to modify user behavior without making points assignment mandatory.

Bharat, we are working on getting a fix coded for what you see and getting it released. Please standby.

Manish and Patrick, we plan to change the button to "start new thread" and move it to the left, away from the "reply" button. Again, many folks search threads for solutions and the time they want to finally ask a question is when they haven't found a solution -- and they are in a thread.

SEP - I'll pass along your thoughts to the support crew.

Thanks,
Dan

[Kimberly Ann]

SEP, one other question....was the downtime occurring just last night, or every night?

Thanks,
Dan

[Steven E. Protter]

I am pretty sure it was Wednesday night/Thursday morning, but I have noticed the long post time and slow response on several other nights. Last night I was trying to rush through a Windows 2003 install(yuck). My last itrc post was around 12:30 am and seemed normal.

I did not keep a log, things are crazy here as I rush for an overseas trip. Seems every privat e customer I have wants everything done before I leave. Extra cash for the trip!

All times are central US.

The other instance of trouble was probably Monday or Tuesday night.

I'll keep a log though I seriously doubt I'm gong to be on from Israel during that time window. Hopefully my fellow itrc mates will keep an eye out and help you with better data.

SEP

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

I'l reply in two posts, cause I can only do one attachment at the time

1. The speed data 2004-06-23 00:00 MET - 2004-06-25 22:16

last column is the speed. Higher is better. Missing data means inaccessibility.

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

2. The graph, which clearly shows no long-term outage.

Have a look at my site and click on the last digit of the year of the stats to see these graph for each week in the past year.
The darker the graph lines the longer ago. Today is orange, and it fades to dark red for a week ago.

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

[Stuart Browne]

Duplicate post. This one doesn't as yet have any responses.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=623160

[Uwe Zessin]

You have moved this thread from HP-UX to OpenVMS, but it belongs to Tru64 Unix:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=623143

[melvyn burnard]

removed 1st one
moved second one

[Muthukumar_5]

hai,

It is good to allocate points for the unallocated replies by default ( after some period ) It will boost-up the beginner level repliers.

It is good to have separate career category on the discussion list.

During 2.00 to 3.00 of IST (june 28,2004),reply to the messages prompted to can not find URL message.

It is a nice forum to know from beginer to expert level

Regards,
Muthukumar.

[Steven E. Protter]

Calling all users of system.perf.sh

I always deliver this script in working condition, to insure I'm delivering a working product. I want to make sure it works so I always post my most current production working version.

I'm currently getting an email from root@mail.cmha.net

Please direct the email in the script to a local user.

That is all.

Thanks.

SEP