Please Submit Your ITRC Forums Issues - September 2002

[harry d brown jr]

I'm following up on this thread (http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x106b402f24d5d61190050090279cd0f9,00.html) here because this is where it belongs, though wrong month.

This reply is regarding why searches suck and need to be repaired.

And of course, if you think I'm full of it try this search string:

alfred mckee

(6 results)
then this search string:

mckee alfred

(50 results)
TWO different results, yet "ALL WORDS" was chosen! I even put a space in front of the first word, but it's not a parsing issue.

OF COURSE the word ALFRED does NOT appear in the first search for " alfred mckee ".

AND of course, the search for " mckee alfred " results in hits that DO NOT contain the word MCKEE.


I tried both mozilla and EIEIO (ie) to no avail.


live free or die
harry

[Pete Randall]

Dan,

For the last 20 minutes, I couldn't get in at all - nothing but SSI errors every time I hit reload. Tried new browser window, tried new browser (IE - don't tell anyone, OK?). Nothing.

Pete

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Dan:

A bit ditto to Pete's post above. There was a period of about 15-minutes where all I could get when I refreshed the HP-UX or Server family home was an SSI error. It seemed to be confined to the 'familyhome' level. That is, I could probe the main Forum page.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Pete Randall]

Dan,

Sorry to sound like a broken record but this morning was the same as yesterday: 404's and SSI errors from 6:15AM until @ 6:40AM EDT. I couldn't get in at all.

Pete

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Can anyone give me a hint where to look for the fact that I can only login to the forum from home? It cannot be changed IP addresses, because I can still /read/ the forum from work. It can neither be an updated browser, because *all* my browsers do the same. They enter the loop described earlier in this thread.

Any help appreciated. You'll get perl answers in return :)

[Wodisch]

Hi all,

just to write something positive: I could log in from france a few minutes ago without any problem :-)

Regards (and good luck and have a nice october),
Wodisch

[Vishal Augustine]

Hi,

I'm facing problems with the box {View - "Message I have been notified on" } (as well as other options). I use netscape 4.75 on HP-UX B.11.00 U 9000/785 and have a proxy (tunnel).

The problem is Even after I make my selection from the list box and click on the arrow, I never get it executed. It shows "Done" in the bottom bar of Netscape ... but no proper results.

Thanks and Regards
Vishal

[V. V. Ravi Kumar_1]

hi Dan,
recently when i was logged in, i opened a new window and i tried to register a new user (one of my colleague). i filled up all his details viz. email, address etc.,. but after i say submit, surprisingly i got the mail that i have been registered, but my colleague didn't. i think there is some problem in this regard. i just wanted to bring to ur notice.
regds

[Ravi_8]

Hi, Dan

Every morning when i tried to access ITRC i get the message " couldn't coonect to server" where as i can all sites, easily, except the ITRC. hope u solve this problem in ITRC server.

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

I'm back :)
The firewall/gateway had cached some wrong IP's I guess.

[Keely Jackson]

Hi

I am having some strange problems with the search engine. Things I searched successfully on yesterday are coming up today with 0 results. Weird.

Cheers.

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Countries may be back, but not all are OK. See http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/UserProfile/1,,BR19682!1,00.html or http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/UserProfile/1,,CA709442!1,00.html as example. Should have been Germany and UK

Here's a list of ID's that changed country over time:

BR112852 S?HNE S
BR161964 UK YOUNG
BR19682 GERMANY CO OHG
BR2903 SOUTH_AFRICA ASSOCIATES
BR633074 GERMANY SERVICE GMBH
BR639678 COMMUNICATION COMMUNICATIONS
BR639678 SPAIN COMMUNICATIONS
BR705647 T GROUP HERMES T GROUP HERMES PLUS MACEDONIA
CA460479 INDIA O NEDDLLOYD
CA501142 USA T
CA661748 P INGRES BEKAE P INGRES BEKAERT SUPPORT TEAM
CA709442 PARTNERS WORL PARTNERS WORLDWIDE
CA709442 UK PARTNERS WORLDWIDE

But there are probably more. Here's the list of possible problems countries I have:

1 ASSOCIATES
1 CO OHG
1 COMMUNICATIONS
1 OVERY
1 PARTNERS WORLDWIDE
1 S
1 SERVICE GMBH
1 SUNALIANCE
1 T
1 YOUNG
1 #243;N S.A.
1 BAHRAIN
1 BELARUS
1 CHILE
1 ESTONIA
1 J
1 MACEDONIA
1 O NEDDLLOYD
1 OMAN
1 P INGRES BEKAERT SUPPORT TEAM
1 PERU
1 T
1 T GROUP HERMES PLUS MACEDONIA
1 TUNISIA

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Danno,

Just a friendly reminder that it's time for a new issues thread for October :~)

Are you recovered & rested from the HP-World yet?

Rgds,
Jeff

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Dan:

See this thread (addressed to you):

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x9078402f24d5d61190050090279cd0f9,00.html

Regards!

...JRF...

[Belinda Dermody]

Dan right now there is a big one, there is no reply button to your msg, is there a limit on how many replies are allowed. This was just corrected in my question, got out and then back in and the buttons were there....

Other issues. Wish there was a way you could change the responses that we receive into a text format for ease of printing.
Have problems assigning points, have to do it two or three times before it takes.

Some of the older threads come back with file could not be found.

[Patrick Wallek]

Hi Dan,

This is yet another reason to move the "Reply" and "Notify Me" buttons to the left side of the message rather than the right.

Patrick

[Sean OB_1]

The search function once again is not working correctly.

I did a search for "while loop" all words of the forums, and no results come back.

I do a search for "while" and one of the results is titled "while loop not ....".

Obviously it contains both words, but why did it not come back with the first search?

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Better yet, have the text area of the thread adapt to the width of the browser, so all threads are as wide as the user sets the browser screen. Now I have a lot of threads where th right margin is huge (replying here it is 17 cm of whitespace!) and sometimes I have to scroll to the right to see the buttons.

Don't use fixed width, use width="60%" or alike

[Wodisch]

Hi Dan,

due to the re-appearing points-discussions over the past few days, I would like to come with some (maybe new?) exhancement requests for the forums (yeah, I'll do it again):
- can we have the number of replies shown below each ones name, please? Maybe even replies vs. bunnies? That could show the *active* forumers much more than the "hats" do...
- can we have a link to your current monthly thread (like this one) in the "Fourms Update" box, please? That way especially the forums *youngsters* could find it...
- can we have read counters for the threads, please? And later *search* for it? That would be an easy and automatic way to implenting FAQs...
- can we have "HTML anchors" on the replies, please? And the "reply" number shown on the thread-page itself? Then we could point somebody directly to proper reply in an old thread... (ok, that is an older request of mine)

Well, I do need something to eat now, maybe I'll can add even more "YAERs" after the pizza ;-)

Regards,
Wodisch

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Could you please cleanup this thread: http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/0,,0x0d86402f24d5d61190050090279cd0f9,00.html

As you can see I had some posting problems, and I was not the only one :)

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

I need to submit points twice for at least the last 2 months before they are applied..

Is this a known issue?

Good luck,
Bill

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

woooaa, like this is a long (and wide) thread!

Later,
Bill