Please Submit Your ITRC Forums Issues - September 2002

[harry d brown jr]

Dan,

I replied to this message:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x8d1c543254bfd611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

and now the text of the Author's message is GONE, and the message doesn't appear in the list of messages!

what's with that?

live free or die
harry

[Dirk Wiedemann]

Hi Dan,

Like Patrick Wallek i wish a indicator for moved threads.
And I wonder like harry d brown jr about the disappeared thread.
Last but not least:
When pushing the reply button in the same window I wish for quoting the author in the reply screen so it's easier to put a friendly salutation. (not really important but nice to have)

regards
Dirk

[Rodney Hills]

Dan,

The recent enhancment of displaying the question in front of the reply input text box was a great idea.

Another idea I would like to suggest is the name of the submitter also be included with the question.

Many times I'm in the middle of replying and I want to include the name of the submitter, but it's no where to be found. If I'm lucky the submitter will type their name at the end of the question, but this is not always the case.

The forum is such a great place to interchange ideas, and I don't want to seem ungrateful for what we got, but in some future enhancement could this little addition be worked in?

Thanks,

-- Rod Hills

[Pete Randall]

Dan,

I posted a reply to this question on Informix startup, yet when I got back to the message it was blank and now I can't even find it without using the bookmark I saved:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xb61d543254bfd611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

[Jeff Schussele]

Hey Pete,

Think someone did something they shouldn't have over there.
That thing was pulled awfully fast.

Jeff

[Keely Jackson]

Hi Dan

Having problems with the search engine. Either getting 'page not found' from results, or it times out.

Cheers
Keely

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

Just wondering if there might be a possibility for a member to "close" his question after he is satisfied with the replies he got. After that, no one can post replies to that question...

cheers
Yogeeraj

[Pete Randall]

Jeff,

I can't imagine why it was pulled, though. The author had a HP logo next to his name, the question was inocuous enough, and my answers were certainly tame. Most curious!

I just looked at it again and I got 8 points for my first answer! That wasn't there after it had initially disappeared so the author was still able to get to it.

Odd.

Pete

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

All users listed below have some extreme point average per answer:
more than 10 ????

1st column = points
2nd column = number of responses
3rd column = point average / answer

Pts Rs PtAvg ID Name
--- -- ----- -------- ------------------------
314 30 10.47 CA507812 Michael Roberts
302 27 11.19 CA780723 Luc Bussieres
143 6 23.83 BR104280 Jim Adamson
109 8 13.62 BR619033 Dirk Dierickx
70 5 14.00 CA645696 Rouchon
62 4 15.50 CA397884 Andrew Babb
61 5 12.20 CA783998 Eric C.Watson
56 5 11.20 CA622840 Christopher Meenan
54 5 10.80 BR74097 Chris Sweeney
54 5 10.80 CA752857 John McDen
53 4 13.25 BR67213 Markus Oppel
51 4 12.75 CA666940 Martono
47 4 11.75 CA274452 Curtis C. Ballard
45 4 11.25 BR646289 Ernesto Cappello
44 4 11.00 CA570829 Jerry Jordak
42 3 14.00 CA269669 Joseph Huang
42 4 10.50 BR163879 John Whitehead
38 3 12.67 BR2416 Paul te Vaanholt
36 3 12.00 CA477882 Dan Wanek
36 2 18.00 BR136493 Kevin Addison
34 3 11.33 BR672104 Mark Kuyper
33 3 11.00 CA631265 David Johns
33 3 11.00 BR156911 sharif naser
31 2 15.50 CA490751 James Mueller
30 2 15.00 BR693886 Pierrick Herv??
29 2 14.50 CA659758 Radu Swider
29 2 14.50 CA334960 John Watson
28 1 28.00 CA710265 meng
25 2 12.50 BR686701 Marko Vidoz
24 1 24.00 BR673542 Dave Burton
24 1 24.00 CA682685 Matt
23 2 11.50 CA602896 Juan Jos?? Mu??oz
22 2 11.00 CA803861 Plessey Mathews
22 2 11.00 CA577685 Mike Holding
21 2 10.50 BR24951 GE CompuNet (Einfeldt)
20 1 20.00 BR647721 R.Mielen
20 1 20.00 CA635121 Jenifer Martins
18 1 18.00 CA821879 A Ottenheimer
18 1 18.00 BR191673 Mike Gordon
16 1 16.00 CA645151 jasper
16 1 16.00 CA670927 Daryl Nyburg
16 1 16.00 CA635508 murgesh
16 1 16.00 BR164913 Jan Wouter van de Scheur
15 1 15.00 CA632504 James Martens
15 1 15.00 CA79089 Kathy J Small
15 1 15.00 CA755978 Ben
15 1 15.00 CA756263 Joshua McConnaughey
15 1 15.00 CA482667 Leong Yew Cheong
15 1 15.00 BR698219 Ray Beers
15 1 15.00 BR691224 Raimo Lesonen
15 1 15.00 CA564146 Mike Moul
14 1 14.00 CA608237 Jupiracy
14 1 14.00 BR668460 Tarjei Aase
13 1 13.00 BR658977 Dallinger Markus
13 1 13.00 CA475982 Johan Nielsen
13 1 13.00 BR650749 Norbert Zaschel
13 1 13.00 CA771672 Wang Lifu
13 1 13.00 CA517723 Darshan A. Masalia
13 1 13.00 CA516894 Gordon
13 1 13.00 CA665123 Joyce S. Solomon
13 1 13.00 BR190287 Craig Jones
13 1 13.00 CA26935 Jerry Brignac
12 1 12.00 CA4020 Jerry Jackson

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

sorry. ignore. I have to add bunn+resp. recalcing ...

[Dave Chamberlin]

Dan,

I too would like to see the "moved thread" addressed. If a link is shown it should be able to take you to the thread - wherever it got moved to, so the move is transparent to the user. Otherwise the link should not be shown at all, except in the area it belongs. I would prefer the first myself...

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Here's a new list. I've checked them. All are impossible.

243 539 BR166071 Ken Scharpell UK 9 17 52.9 20000912 20020612 14 37 10.57
458 143 BR104280 Jim Adamson 39 57 68.4 19990525 20020723 2 6 17.88
980 40 CA520497 Vivienne Poon 0 0 - 20020603 20020603 1 0 40.00
1175 30 BR184852 CSA-TEST/SVIL ITALY 0 1 0.0 20020328 20020328 2 0 15.00
1176 30 CA606724 Lisa Williams 0 0 - 20020617 20020809 2 0 15.00
1568 20 CA560728 Peter Lim MALAYSIA 5 6 83.3 20011116 20011205 1 0 20.00
1582 20 CA558085 Gumeni ROMANIA 1 13 7.7 20001020 20001207 1 0 20.00
1583 20 CA464602 V.SELVARAJ INDIA 5 73 6.8 20000318 20000913 1 1 10.00
1705 18 CA737448 Steve USA 0 0 - 20020117 20020117 1 0 18.00
2153 12 CA4020 Jerry Jackson 15 21 71.4 19960717 20020227 0 1 12.00
2700 10 CA717776 Marty Garcia 1 1 100.0 20011128 20020620 0 1 10.00

[Pete Randall]

This business of moving questions is getting out of hand. I understand the need for categories but it's annoying when a question you're following gets moved completely out of a category.
Today, this question:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x0a23543254bfd611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

got moved to workstations>700 just because 700 was mentioned in the subject. It was an Ignite question for cripes sakes.

Pete

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

I'm getting a lot of redirections and "Could not login" messages from the us-support site. I'm currently logged in on the Europe site, and the problem has so far occured on most of the IT resource center roundy gray link box over the Welcome, text.

It's kindof annoying..

Later,
Bill

[John Payne_2]

DAn,

I have been having problems with searches all week also. You do one search and get nothing. Then do another and get what you want. OR you do a search on the forums and technical documents. One search will give you just technical documents. Then you search again and get just forums....

Hope it helps

John

[harry d brown jr]

John, I've complained about the sucky search engine before. I know for a fact that boolean searches don't work - it's like they are using some microsoft suck engine, I mean searchless engine, I mean searches me, ... ?

Where the hell is the google search engine when you need it??

live free or die
harry

[BKUMAR]

Hi Dan,

I posted a ? yday subject "network collisions" author "bkumar" but i never found it today....can u pls check or else i will post it again

Thanks

[Helen French]

Hi BKUMAR:

You can always check your postings by going to your forum profile page and click on "his/her questions" option. In your case, I checked it and it has been moved to Linux forum. This is the one which you are looking for:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xb124543254bfd611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

Shiju

[Pete Randall]

Right about 2:00PM EDT, I was unable to get to the ITRC > hp-ux main page. I got a blank page (just the blue navigation bar at the very top) that said:

Error processing SSI file '/cm/FamilyHomeContent/1,11868,LoggedIn!117,00.html'

After several minutes of trying, I was finally able to reconnect.

Pete

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Just got some 404's while trying to reply.
Looks like a temporary glitch, cause the message could be posted a few minutes later

The page I replied to could also not be found in another browser while I was trying to answer

[Kimberly Ann]

Procura and Pete,

Thanks, I experienced the same and I'm checking with the support team to find out what may have occurred.

-Dan

[Wodisch]

Hi Dan,

it seems that the email-notification is not working any more :-(
Just a few minutes ago I read the thread about the "RFC1948 TCP/IP Sequence Numbers":
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x6f24543254bfd611abdb0090277a778c,00.html
for which I had turned on "Notification" earlier. Well, there was a new (and interesting) reply, but no email has arrived (yet) :-(

Regards,
Wodisch

[Bernie Vande Griend]

Suggestion which may have been mentioned before:

It sure would be helpful if the search engine had an option so it would be limited to a certain section within the forums. This is especially helpful when you are searching for a Linux issue such as "ftp logins" and do not want to see the HP matching issues. This is going to become a bigger issue over time as Linux is used more and more. That's just one example though where this would be helpful. Thanks for all the improvements thus far!

[John Poff]

Dan,

I just experienced the strangest (and scariest) thing that has ever happened to me on the forums. I was looking at a thread:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/0,,0x1cfb227a4bc6d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

and I clicked on the login tab so I could reply. I put in my password and didn't even look at the user name field, as it always defaults to my ID. I did a search, went back to the question, and entered my reply. When I looked at the question again, I thought, "Gee, there is my reply, but some other guy typed in the same thing!" Then I realized that I was logged in as that other guy - CA2212, RC Engineer. I logged out immediately, clicked on Login again, and it had that CA2212 in the ID field. I changed it to my ID and logged in as myself.

How the heck did that happen, and how did I get in on that ID with my password. That was really freaky! I'm not superstitious, but it is Friday the 13th. ;)

JP

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

A black day for the European ITRC members!

I haven't been able to answer *ALL* day!

No message from any server.