Please Post Your ITRC Forums Successes - April 2002!

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

James, exactly to the point. I've been asking for those other dates too, but they are not in the profiles. I'm 14 Oct 1997, but my first post was 26 Feb 2002 17:05. I'd prefer to use that second date over the first one in my overview, but I don't have it.

I also want to include , which I have neither

[Robert Gamble]

The point system started in May of 2000.
See: http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x0e8fe8644a22d411ade70090279cd0f9,00.html

Prior to that, replies were evaluated by HP for relavence and on a monthly basis, starting in Oct 1999, an 'All-Star' was selected.

I had used the ITRC since April 1997 like my profile states for searching manuals and tech documents and for opening/reviewing case calls with HP. When I started a new job in Oct 1999, I noticied for the first time the forums.

I don't think they started too long before then. Maybe Dan could get in touch with Shane to find out exactly when they started.

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

Hey Dan,

this is a pretty good thread for hp!

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x16747d4cf554d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

Pay attention to the authors comments re the other ones..

Stay sane,
Bill

[pap]

Nothing much in this week.
Yes, great success to my question about assigning points. Lots of folks have assigned points to replies and assgning points procedure has been improved to some extent.

Thanks to all. and wish all will repeat the same in future.

--pap

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Warning, lists listed here are well formatted in reality, only included for example

I've got the basics for the weekly statistics the way I want it. Very little web access, and a *complete* list of members. At the moments, there are 20429 registered members, of which 3678 have gathered points. Next top-200 will be available next wednesday (I think)

a5:/u/usr/merijn/tmp/itrc 401 > db2txt id-prev.txt > id.txt
Pre-scanning 20429 members, prev 20020422
CA520085 ! +439 6459 89.5 20020422 S.K. Chan
CA275236 ! +293 23141 95.1 20020422 A. Clay Stephenson
BR180643 ! +261 5714 98.3 20020329 Bill McNAMARA
CA503958 ! +245 5774 97.4 20020422 Shiju Wilson
CA752641 ! +201 1674 100.0 20020422 Jeff Schussele
BR114301 ! +171 1334 100.0 20020422 Clemens van Everdingen
CA114842 ! +157 21540 100.0 20020422 James R. Ferguson
CA510234 ! +153 1906 54.5 20020422 MANOJ SRIVASTAVA
BR41967 ! +138 1054 101.3 20020422 procura
CA739512 ! +120 477 100.0 20020418 Greg Carlson
BR185479 ! +114 1541 80.0 20020328 Jan Affolter
BR680450 ! +108 266 22.2 20020411 Domenico Vizzoca
CA107285 ! +102 5618 98.4 20020422 Steven Sim Kok Leong
CA362973 ! +101 8124 100.0 20020422 Michael Tully
CA18242 ! +91 10773 99.1 20020406 Patrick Wallek
BR154011 ! +87 8155 95.0 20020419 Alex Glennie
CA428565 ! +83 738 52.1 20020422 pap
CA646427 ! +80 169 37.5 20020419 Hai Nguyen
CA709442 ! +78 1428 81.8 20020422 gab jones
CA601243 ! +69 1042 92.5 20020419 Sandip Ghosh
CA206693 ! +67 235 58.1 20020404 Charles McCary
Marked 21 fast movers in 3678 members
a5:/u/usr/merijn/tmp/itrc 402 > du -k
2801 ./db
20822 ./MemberList
0 ./UserProfile
24344 .
a5:/u/usr/merijn/tmp/itrc 403 > head -13 id.txt

Rank Points ID Name Country Asign Answr Rate Since Lst post
----- ------ -------- ------------------------ -------------- ----- ----- ----- -------- --------
1! 23141 CA275236 A. Clay Stephenson USA 58 61 95.1 19980717 20020422 +293
2! 21540 CA114842 James R. Ferguson USA 72 72 100.0 19970916 20020422 +157
3 11583 CA592260 harry d brown jr USA 312 312 100.0 20001213 20020422
4 11432 CA632734 Sanjay USA 24 24 100.0 20010416 20020405
5! 10773 CA18242 Patrick Wallek USA 432 436 99.1 19961119 20020406 +91
6 9208 BR458 Stefan Farrelly UK 114 136 83.8 19961024 20020415
7! 8155 BR154011 Alex Glennie UK 114 120 95.0 20000508 20020419 +87
8! 8124 CA362973 Michael Tully AUSTRALIA 243 243 100.0 19990416 20020422 +101
9 6907 BR8935 Wodisch GERMANY 163 166 98.2 19970224 20020422
10! 6459 CA520085 S.K. Chan USA 51 57 89.5 20000830 20020422 +439
a5:/u/usr/merijn/tmp/itrc 404 >

Still looking for day of first post and number of bunnies.

Since I've got most data in a pseudo database now, I can also detect:

As of 20020116, CA736031 gimini is the first member from QATAR
As of 20020313, BR680079 rudy is the first member from LEBANON
As of 20020418, CA778316 Anders is the first member from BAHRAIN
As of 20020123, CA739912 Slave Trajanoski is the first member from MACEDONIA

Welcome!

[Kimberly Ann]

Procura: great stuff, interesting to see this listed. I will plan to post each month the points ranking.

Robert: you are right on...the ITRC Forums became available in October of 1999! Great memory!

Bill: awesome thread and comments from user Mr. Knapp! Thanks for the pointer!

Jim: thanks for clarifying for all...the "member since" date in user profiles refers to the date since registering with the ITRC, not necessarily first date of forums activity.

Best to all,
Dan

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Dan, now that I've worked out the 'complete list', the bandwidth, and the bunny problems, can you tell if 'date first post' is available anywhere? Please?

[John McDen]

This forum has really helped me to learn a lot on HP-UX and the response is awsome..

I really greatful to you all.

Thanks

[Kimberly Ann]

Hi Procura, here's the deal on the "member since" date. The date represents the day a user registered with the ITRC. The registration function is ITRC-wide...in other words, you can register within any service of the ITRC. Hence, there is no *forums-specific* registration date. However, there may be a way to search on first post date (would require filtering on all forums messages!). So, nothing clear cut, I'm sorry.

Thanks,
Dan

[harry d brown jr]

Dan,

I haven't done any research into this topic, but I have never seen any user here with so many questions:

This member has assigned points to 1467 of 1580 responses to his/her questions.

1580 questions! Now Richard should be an expert now :-)
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/UserProfile/1,,CA544890!1,00.html

It's just so damn mind blowing!

live free or die
harry

[John Carr_2]

Hi Dan

If I was to list all the great achievements I have got from the forum I wouldn't have time to help anyone today.

Cheers
John.

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

And see the source of the forums 2.0:http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x9bba119c3420d411b66300108302854d,00.html


Robert, nice to see you again.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Dan, et al.

There's another accolade for this Forum in the post below. More importantly, however, there is a *lesson* from its author. The author notes that had he known what keywords (terms) to use in a search, he might have been able to do so, without posting "the question [that] has been asked many time before". It's worth our consideration...

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x607f7d4cf554d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

Regards!

...JRF...

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi All:

With regard to the "statistics" associated with a user's profile, I have noted another mis-understanding twice. The post above, suggesting that Richard has posed "1580 questions!" is erroneous. The profile for any user reads, "This member has assigned points to [X] of [Y] RESPONSES to his/her questions". Note the emphasis on the word "responses".

A better estimate of the number of QUESTIONS can be derived by using Steven Leong's engine. Remember that Steven's analysis is confined to the HP-UX family and roots itself at January 1, 2001. Too, Steven's engine does not tally "N/A" items whereas the ITRC *does* count these as a "response".

Regards!

...JRF...

[Mahima Kaushik_2]

First of all thanks to all 'forum members' for their excellent support every day.
I know that I can count on you guys any time. Recently I had some problems during the apache webserver installation and no one (not even some of the senior admin.) could help me with it. Finally I decided to place it on forum and there you go. I got the solution within 4 minuts from Harry D. Brown Jr. (in 4 MINUTS that is amazing).
Here is the link to that thread.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x12928cc5e03fd6118fff0090279cd0f9,00.html

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

> With regard to the "statistics" associated with a user's profile, I have noted another mis-understanding twice. The post above, suggesting that Richard has posed "1580 questions!" is erroneous.

The headers show Asign and Answr, obvious (at least for me) enough to not mean Asigned and Questions. If you have a suggestion for better headers, I'm all open to it.

62 1589 CA544890 Richard USA 1477 1583 93.3 20001004 20020501 1239

BTW Dan, time to open two new threads for May successes and issues. I've got the new statistics ready this morning.

[Wodisch]

Hm,

I was pretty certain to posted "preliminary" statistics on 30th April short to midnight, but it seems to have vanished...
Anyway, as long as the "j" and "m" member pages are too big in size to be retrievable (SSI errors), the *real* statistics have to wait even longer :-(

Sorry,
Wodisch

[Trever Furnish]

Well, I posted a question about shell redirection that had vexed me for months and had five, count 'em, FIVE responses within three minutes - including the solution I was hoping for.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x33577bb04b5cd611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

[Kimberly Ann]

Hi All,

Thanks for the excellent feedback -- great stories from all!

JRF, thanks for clarifying for others what the user date refers to -- we'll get this updated to reflect when users joined the ITRC overall, not just the forums. Also, regarding search keywords, perhaps a list should be available. I can have it pointed to from the home page...ideally, from the search page (not sure if that can happen).

Mahima and Trever - great examples of the speed and quality of responses one receives from the forums!

Wodisch and procura, I'll get a new thread started for posting your stats....I might post some of my own! Please standby.

Thanks,
Dan

[Pete Randall]

Dan,

Here's a success story of the "small world variety" for you: while browsing Harry D. Brown Jr.'s "Montreal creames Boston's pie" post, I was inspired to pursue just where he was from. Turns out we have the same home town. If we hadn't been 11 years apart we definitely would have known each other because there's only a little over 5000 residents.

The forums are good for meeting people and making friends, too.

Pete

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Before I found the forum my life had no meaning or direction.

Now------------

Question asking-answer giving-solution finding-problem solving-server happy-system adamin happy-users happy-hour saving-lip smacking good.


LOL

Paula

[Jeff Schussele]

Paula are you starting happy hour early???? =~)

Cheers,
Jeff

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi Jeff

No peflectly slobber - havvnt tlotched a dlop.

Hic

PJFC

[Jeff Schussele]

Oh that's right...you're a Brit.
Are you at an Internet pub?
Watch those darts!!!
hee...hee...heee

Cheers,
Jeff

[Kimberly Ann]

Ok, for those of you right above this note...

I don't want to rain on your parade, however, I think we need to maintain the mission of these forums as a place for sharing knowledge, best practices and tips.

I know a lot of the dialogue is all in fun, but I'd hate to see these forums, built on professonalism and peer respect, go the way of mere chat rooms. Again, I appreciate the camaraderie, and liken it to teamwork. I've just seen more of this occurring lately. Lets just be careful about the path down which we take these forums.

Best Regards,
Dan