Please Report Forums Issues! (10/2/2001)

[Volker Borowski]

Hi Dan,

did HP change something on the browser-back browser-forward functions.

I tended to use back and forward when I answer question, but newly, my already typed text disappears after a back - forward combination.

bug or feature ?

Switched to work with two explorer sessions.

Volker

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

For all you:

I am using serach all hp.com, better than Forums search.

On advanced search set "must include" Forum
and "must include" your_search.

It runs faster, and better.

[Jasper Verweij]

Well, Dan,

an "one-click-assign-them-all-points" button would be nice for you now!!! ;-)

I guess this thread is becoming large due to the fact Wodisch is hitting the enter button on each row or do I miss something again and can I specify somewhere the alignment of my messages....

Jasper

[Wodisch]

Hi Jasper,
I admit being guilty on hitting enter after every line in the reply dialog box, as I do like seeing what I type kind of the way it is shown later on... but is it easier to read that way? Wodisch (who has only hit once now)

[James Beamish-White]

Some old forum messages seem to be lost. I have been looking for a forum post I used to refer to called "Restricted incoming ftp accounts", and now the link doesn't work, and searching for it doesn't return it.

Is there a set time limit to how long message posts last?

James

[harry d brown jr]

Dan,

Seeing that vpars is soon to be released, are there plans to create a seperate forum category?

thanks,

hdb

[Wodisch]

Hello Harry,
is "vpars" the abbreviation for the virtual partitions on Superdomes and N-classes?
Curious,
Wodisch

[Patrick Wallek]

VPARS is the abbreviating for Virtual Partitions, yes. VPARS, I believe, will be available on L and N class. The SuperDome uses different partitions, ie. NOT vpars, I believe.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Everyone:

Wodisch's statistics of the profiles of Forum members posted on October 5th, above, prompted me to offer this further bit of history.

I cannot find any definitive date for Alex Glennie's crowning and I suspect somehow in those dark days we missed officially congratulting him. The date I have given for him I believe is fairly accurate, based on my own recollection. If anyone knows any better, please let me know.

Therefore, this is dedicated to Wodisch and Alex:

ITRC Royalty in Ascension Order
-------------------------------

1. Stefan Farrelly September 27, 2000
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x1ff76c96588ad4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html


2. John Palmer October 17, 2000
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x5ddaf841489fd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html


3. James R. Ferguson October 20, 2000
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0xf6e1f841489fd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html


4. Andreas Voss October 25, 2000
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x0aebf841489fd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html


5. Rick Garland November 20. 2000
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0xd1f2a14d9abcd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html


6. Albert E. Whale December 14, 2000
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x78aa14a24fd1d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html


7. Kofi Arthiabah December 18, 2000
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x5ab614a24fd1d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html


8. Alex Glennie December 2000 / January 2001



9. Chris Anoruo January 10, 2001
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x29c0854994d9d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html


10. Dan Hetzel February 13, 2001
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x1b7937f45ef7d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html


11. Ian February 16, 2001
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x3e8337f45ef7d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html


12. Berlene Herren February 19, 2001
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0xe7ad6af52b04d5118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html


13. Patrick Wallek March 21, 2001
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0xacae53921f1ad5118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html


14. Rita C. Workman April 6, 2001
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0xe303a22d6d27d5118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html


15. A.Clay Stephenson May 29, 2001
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x451072106351d5118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html


16. Vincenzo Restuccia June 21, 2001
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0xf99de7e60861d511abcd0090277a778c,00.html


17. Victor Berridge July 2, 2001
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x65f5f9beca68d511abcd0090277a778c,00.html


18. Bill McNamara August 3, 2001
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0xb9d7a135f587d5118ff00090279cd0f9,00.html


19. Melvyn Burnard August 14, 2001
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x3ef6d211e18ad5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html


20. Bill Hassell September 7, 2001
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x3c1b8ffa98a2d5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html


21. Ramesh Upadhyayula September 28, 2001
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0xd8fa660142b2d5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html


...with more, no doubt, to come, and my regards to everyone...

...JRF...

[Alexander M. Ermes]

Hi Dan.
Pls check this one :

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x28bdcf38d6bdd5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

There is an interesting suggestion.
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

[harry d brown jr]

Wodisch,

vpars (Virtual Partitions), currently runs on L and N-class machines. On superdomes, they use "hard partions". The new rp8400 (what should have been the S-class), has the ability to have two hard partitions, and next year the ability to have vpars (I imagine the virtual partition monitor will be rather large).

I've been in the vpar beta program since Dec of 2000. I've been benchmarking our homegrown apps on an N-class with 6 cpus and 10gb of memory. We completed testing of two partitons, four partitions, and now I'm about to start a six partition test.

I was very, and I mean VERY, disappointed with the new RP8400. Although it has a lot of redundancy, it only has 16 IO slots, severely limiting the use of vpars. I've heard that plan to introduce more IO slots, but I won't hold my breath.

As to vpars, I find it a very good and stable product. Easy to manage and setup. I like the flexibility to quickly setup different configurations.

I could go on here forever, that's why I'd like to see a seperate thread on vpars, so that people can ask questions and get answers.

[Wodisch]

Hello Dan,

the problem with the ITRC-links in the replies still holds
true - there are still the ",1150," references. Since it is
fairly easy to just delet the "1150" between the commas
and then the link is working, could you please have all
those ",1150," in all the posts replace with ",,". Then
taht part of the "search" should be working.
The other problem about the search is still there, too:
only up to 50 results, older postings are not shown any
longer, that does spoil the whole "search" button!
And Paula's recommendation (to use the "whole hp"
search is working - thanks, Paula!) is only a workaround,
but then nobody would need/use that "search" button,
would they?

(Voice of John Cleese): And now for something completly different:
Can we have something like a "election" (lack of words,
again) to have us forumers actually select what we want
most? Talking about "features"...
Like: What do you want to have on the forums:
a) A list of "My own replies"
b) A list with "My recommended threads"
c) A list with "My private bookmarks"
d) none of them
e) something else
Perhaps everybody answering could reply with a "weighted"
answer, like "a: 5 of 10; b : 10 of 10; c : 8 of 10"???
So you and your team would know what we want first
(if we have the choice, of course :-)

Regards,
Wodisch
_____

Hello Harry,

thanks for your info about the VPARS. And YES, I would
like a separate area for them, probably still under HPUX.
That makes the list of wanted areas longer and longer:
we already want DCE or HPUX:DCE, Performance&Tuning
or HPUX:Performance&Tuning, now HPUX:VPARS, what else?

Regards,
Wodisch

[Andreas D. Skjervold]

Hi
I for one haven't recieved the daily e-mail postings since sometime last week.
Is this a problem at the moment or should I check with my postoffice if they are filtering?
I do get the Question Answered notification though.

Andreas

[Patrick Wallek]

Dan,

Have a look at this thread:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0xcfc1cf38d6bdd5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

It has 2 responses, with 7 points given to each one. When you look at from the HP-UX family page it shows a Rabbit for a magic answer. What's up with that?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Dan:

I have tried twice to respond to this posting:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0xcab6cf38d6bdd5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

Each time, I can pull the thread up, hit [Reply] and all is well; however, [Submit] fails with 'HTTP 404 - This page cannot be found.

Clay

[Volker Borowski]

Hi Dan,
my comments on Wodisch suggestions:

a) A list of "My own replies"
-> May be long, I would be satisfied if the recent responses are extented to 15

b) A list with "My recommended threads"
-> Browser bookmark should do it ?
c) A list with "My private bookmarks"
-> Browser bookmark should do it ?

e) something else
-> "My unpointed answers"

And, to enforce assignment of points, if "My unpointed answers" contains 30 entries, the member is not able to open a thread.

Volker

[paul courry]

Dan, do you think there would be any interest in having a forums roundtable using 1 or 2 people from each section of the forum at next years HPWorld? I'm willing to get the ball rolling if there is any interest. Heck, I'd even be willing to buy Jim Ferguson and the pirahna gang breakfast again!

[paul courry]

Dan,

Here is an issue for you, a real it-affects-the-users issue.

According to this spreadsheet in front of me we have about 90 boxes with the HP logo on them. I wanted to get them all in ITRC, put in share status to everyone across the company can use them both as a management tool and as a collaboration tool so we can work on problems together.

Found out that some of the boxes were already registered with the ITRC, but no one knew who was the owner of the ITRC ID. If you can't find the owner you can't put the ID into share status and allow everyone to look at the calls.

Hence a little game was played. First a call to Roseville, for the list of contracts. Next a call to our ASE who matched the contract to the ITRC owner. Then to me, who then called the RC, opened a call and passed the much annotated spreadsheet to a member of the ITRC team to change ownership of the ITRC handle.

Dan, there has to be a better way! Did I miss the shortcut through this maze? Please, tell me I did!

[Patrick Wallek]

Dan,

Have a look at this thread. What's up with need ANOTHER id to access something on HPs site. Can't we consolidate all the ids so that we only have to remember 1 id and password?

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x85c5cf38d6bdd5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

[paul courry]

Dan, I've got 41 system handles linked to me now and I'm trying to link about another 26 or so today and the link to the contracts database in Roseville seems to be up and down like a yo-yo!

Hewlett-Packard regrets this service is temporarily unavailable.
Please try again later.

(Error 247)


It's taking about 10 -15 tries to get a handle linked.

Today is 10/16/01 time is 12:34 eastern

[someone_4]

search is still not working =(

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Dan:

Today starting at about 2100 UTC My welcome messages would start appearing as Welcome A.+Clay+Stephenson and my permissions would fail.

I then had to logout and exit my browser before I could resume operations withing the Forums.

[Andreas D. Skjervold]

Hi
This morning reply to messages was nearly impossible due to slow response (approx 5 min), and then after some time (1 hour ago) I just got connection failed, on all Forum pages.

Andreas

[Animesh Chakraborty]

hi Dan,
Today the performance is real horrible.
And fonts also get changed everytime I refresh the screen.

Not sure whether I will be able to submit this messgage or not:)

Thanks
Animesh

[paul courry]

Dan, here's a weird one...........

RC ticket # 3200382604

For the following System handle/ serial # combinations

HNS/WINTELNBD 4430D1972
US12961105 4430E4991

The system took the data, waited 1-2 minutes, announced that the combos were not in the support database, then when I tried to enter them again it said that this combo was already in the database.

It appears that prelim checks are being passed and items are being written to the databases, but then some check is failed and the transaction is neither completed nor completely backed out.