Please Submit Your ITRC Forums Issues for January 2003!

[Pete Randall]

Patrick,

Having just upgraded my HP-UX Netscape from 4.79 to 7.0, I can tell you that, under 4.79, the links used to open in a new window, a feature I sorely miss.

Pete

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Pete, shift-click helps?

Phoenix and Mozilla support this. And Opera too, though Opera opens these links in a new window too.

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn

[Pete Randall]

Merijn,

Sorry, shift-click doesn't seem to do anything. Ctrl-click will open a new window with the javascript:openExternal('http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xa89cafe90f1cd71190050090279cd0f9,00.html') in the URL box, but that obviously doesn't do anything, either.

I'm open to other suggestions - short of downgrading to 4.79!

Pete

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.3a/mozilla-hppa2.0-hp-hpux10.20-1.3a.tar.gz

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn

[John Collier]

In response to #2 in Brian's post:

I have had the same problem when attempting to assign points to answers on the forums. I always chalked it up to an IE problem (lord knows they have enough of them!), but if it is happening to others then perhaps it is something that needs to be addressed.

I do know it gets agravating to try to thank someone for their time and effort only to find out you have to do it again...

[Kimberly Ann]

Hi John (and Brian),

There have been other users that have reported the assign point problem (two times to make it take). Oddly, I assign points quite often and they always take on the first attempt. I never use the "back" button to review them, instead I use the provided links back to the message. I'm using IE5.5 for the moment. I did report this to the lab and a patch to help with this is planned for release soon.

-Dan

[Dave La Mar]

Dan -
Had a request for a visio drawing.
After attaching it to the response, found it could not be saved or opened.
How does one handle this?

Regards,

dl

[Kimberly Ann]

Dave, there is a limit of 1MB for attachments. Also, the type of attachment may cause it to not open. Try zipping the file first and then uploading it in your reply.

Thanks,
Dan

[Dave La Mar]

Dan -
Zipped the visio (which was less than 1mb to begin with.
Still a no go.
It's in the planning forum, key word visio.


Regards,

dl

[John Collier]

Ok, at the risk of sounding like I???m whining I have another issue that I am seeing a lot of recently that I may as well bring up.

It seems as if it is taking longer and longer for the notifications about replies to questions (a.k.a. discussion topics) to come in from the forum. I expect a lag of sorts since this site enjoys a large amount of traffic, but the delays for me are getting to be in ranges of hours instead of minutes.

A prime example of this would be the notification that I just received on postings to this thread. There hasn???t been one to it since the last one that I put on there and I???m still getting random notifications about new posts to this thread.

Am I the only lucky one or are others experiencing the same thing?

[John Collier]

Well, now it looks like there is another issue. When I go back now to see my own post, I see that I wasn???t the last post after all.

Could anybody explain how I could follow a link in the mail client (which opens a whole new browser window since the browser was closed at the time I clicked it) and come up with a page that isn???t current?

BTW- Dan,

I don???t use the back button to go view my threads after I assign points either. I would expect that to give me wrong information since it???s going to pull it from cache most of the time..

[John Collier]

Dan,

Don't want to sound like I'm harping on this, but this issue with not receiving e-mail notification has just bitten me in a big way.

I had posted an issue earlier today and was really needing to get some responses to this issue in hopes of having the issue resolved prior to leaving today. I was getting quite depressed by the fact that nobody had chosen to reply since 16:56 PM GMT. I was beginning to think that it wasn't meant for me to get this question answered today.

I just went back to it on my own to make sure and found 6 additional replies that I was never notified of!

What do the web gurus have to say on this? Am I the only one?

[Ian Dennison_1]

Dan,

I get struck quite often with 'dropouts' of the Forums from the search criteria. Usually a resubmit of the search will bring up Forum Postings again, but it is still a little disconcerting.

Thanks, Ian Dennison

[T G Manikandan]

Dan,


Lot of 404 errors today.

[Chris Wilshaw]

I've been getting a number of 404 errors, and a couple of 403's (not authorised to access this page) so far today, trying to access various parts of the forums, from the top level view to the reply form. Most of the time, a second attempt seems to be enough to get through.

[James R. Ferguson]

Good Morning Dan:

I'm seeing quite a few 404-errors and at least one SSI-error opening threads.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Dan,

lot's of errors,
Error processing SSI file '/cm/QuestionAnswerContent/1,11870,LoggedIn!0xb8225bd3782dd711abdc0090277a778c!0!1!0!0!0,00.html
and 404 errors.

Robert-Jan.

[Stefan Farrelly]

As of this morning, Thursday, keep getting 404 Object not found errors on the HP-UX main forum page, and if trying to reply to a question keep getting Page Not Found errors.

[Pete Randall]

Dan,

Me, too: 404's!

And I'll second John's comments about e-mail notifications. I've got 3 congratulatory threads that are still active and I get notified *maybe* 50% of the time. It's not that they're just slow - some of them just never happen, while others do. Very odd.

Pete

[Steven E. Protter]

This is a large, high volume site.

I'd like someone at HP to answer the following questions, because they burn in my mind.

What hardware does itrc run on?

OS?

httpd server and version?

In spite of constant slowness and recent outages, I think its a very reliable setup and would like to learn more about it without compromising HP's security.

Thanks.

No points, just curious Steve.

Inquiring minds want to know.

Inquiring minds need a life.

P

[harry d brown jr]

Steven,

the itrc runs on M$ crap.


Dan,

getting these errors:

Error processing SSI file '/cm/HomeContent/1,11867,LoggedIn!1,00.html'

and

404 Object Not Found


live free or die
harry

[John Poff]

Hi,

As others have noted this morning, the ITRC web site is running as smoothly as a William Shatner monologue.


Can't <404>...seem..<404>..to..<404>..get a...<404>...page..<404>....loaded!

;)

JP

[BFA6]

Hi Dan,

Getting the following when trying to access the forums

404 Object Not Found

Regards,

Hilary

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Just to make sure US doesn't feel bad, it's a blizzard of 404's on this side of the ocean too all day.

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Merijn & Dan:

I'm glad to know the blizzard isn't confined to the west side of the Atlantic, although I understand its snowing in the UK. ;-)

Dan, The proportion of SSI seems to have increased in the last few hours. It's not uncommon for me to get an SSI followed by a 404 and then finally the thread on refresh. That makes a 2/3 error ratio!

Regards!

...JRF...