Please Submit Your ITRC Forums Successes - July 2002!

[Kimberly Ann]

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for the late post -- was out of the office for two weeks!

Once again, please submit your highlights and successes you have had while using the ITRC Forums. Your feedback helps convey the positive influences the forums have had on your IT life. For example, have you:

1. Posted a question and received a key answer that solved your problem?
2. Have you viewed a message thread that had a solution to a problem you were trying to solve?
3. Found the Forums to be of particular help in sharing information, exchanging best practices, or saving you time?

I'd really like to hear from everyone -- your circumstances, the issues, the outcome, who was of help, time saved, etc.! If you have examples to share, please provide the URL of the thread if possible.

Thanks in advance for your input!

Best Regards,
Dan Gazzaniga
Forums Manager

[Kelli Ward]

Hey!
I was starting to worry about you.
Glad to see you back.
Kel

[Volker Borowski]

Hi Dan,

just like to remind you not to peek into my "1000 pages" thread, ok ? ... it should be a suprise !

Volker

[Kimberly Ann]

Kelli..thanks--I'm always worried about me! :)

Volker, will do....let me know when I can take a look!

Regards,
Dan

[John Payne_2]

Dan,

I have been fighting a problem with Auto Port Aggregation for several days here, and finally had the time to post to the forums today.

David Bell totally took the time to keep looking at the posts, and looked up the resolution, where I was not paying attention... He saved me problibly a weeks frustration, since I have so much work to do around here.

Hope it helps

John

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Wow, some rather fresh members are shooting up.
Steven Sim is almost Pharaoh!!
Pete Randall almost Gold!
Look at the rest of the soon to be promoted list.

Pre-scanning 23450 members, prev 20020621

Fast Movers:

ID Diff Point Bunn Rate Last Msg Name
============ ===== ===== ==== ======= ======== =========================
CA275236 +1267 27800 1630 96.1 % 20020716 A. Clay Stephenson
CA114842 +1175 24877 1699 100.0 % 20020716 James R. Ferguson
CA647217 +1129 2312 147 40.0 % 20020716 PIYUSH D. PATEL
CA362973 +1000 11084 648 100.0 % 20020717 Michael Tully
CA520085 +907 10775 713 100.0 % 20020717 S.K. Chan
BR458 +868 11926 483 78.5 % 20020716 Stefan Farrelly
CA632734 +574 13840 830 100.0 % 20020716 Sanjay
CA510234 +562 4547 269 100.0 % 20020716 MANOJ SRIVASTAVA
CA591749 +541 1986 115 100.0 % 20020716 T G Manikandan
CA592260 +523 14407 718 100.0 % 20020716 harry d brown jr
CA486994 +519 7053 493 100.0 % 20020716 Bill Hassell
CA13182 +514 2471 140 100.0 % 20020716 Pete Randall
CA107285 +511 7383 391 100.0 % 20020717 Steven Sim Kok Leong
BR677109 +484 1651 76 100.0 % 20020716 Peter Kloetgen
BR664397 +472 1349 72 100.0 % 20020717 steven Burgess
CA752641 +469 3948 206 100.0 % 20020716 Jeff Schussele
CA755684 +391 517 30 100.0 % 20020716 Arockia J Jeganathan Pet
CA18242 +382 11656 729 99.4 % 20020717 Patrick Wallek
CA709442 +381 2607 151 95.5 % 20020716 gab jones
BR137763 +373 3099 172 - 20020717 Steve Steel
BR162261 +348 2702 178 100.0 % 20020709 Duncan Edmonstone

Marked 21 fast movers in 4155 members

2 Olympian's
9 Pharaoh's
43 Royalty's
78 Wizard's
91 Graduate's
113 Pro's

Almost Pharaoh:
7383 20020717 1745 391 100.0 % CA107285 Steven Sim Kok Leong

Almost Royalty:
2471 20020716 572 140 100.0 % CA13182 Pete Randall

Almost Wizard:
999 20020528 241 56 100.0 % BR29930 Wim Rombauts
987 20020716 201 51 100.0 % CA657142 John Payne
982 20020715 323 63 25.0 % CA549470 Eric Sorensen
982 20020114 0 37 91.3 % BR178691 Eugen Cocalea
968 20020627 288 50 97.8 % CA518502 Timothy Czarnik
945 20020315 211 61 100.0 % CA580400 Bruce Regittko
936 20020716 253 51 89.0 % CA227645 Scott Van Kalken
921 20020524 323 51 98.2 % CA428565 pap

Almost Graduate:
498 20020712 143 35 - CA628575 Jan Klier
497 20020712 130 24 100.0 % BR4065 Hartmut Lang
497 20020206 0 29 61.3 % CA460479 Kapil Raj
492 20020716 102 24 100.0 % CA370740 David Bell
483 20020715 111 26 103.9 % CA589385 Vijeesh CTK
475 20020709 166 25 - CA713937 David Ruska
471 20020712 135 27 100.0 % CA116784 Robert Jewell
469 20020712 92 26 100.0 % BR155197 Steve Lewis
460 20020716 186 28 100.0 % CA509803 D. Jackson

Almost Pro:
248 20020704 85 19 - CA723827 Jason Walsh
247 20020625 293 4 99.6 % CA649974 Dan Gazzaniga
236 20020506 0 0 - BR182499 Oliver Haensel
234 20020423 0 0 45.5 % BR638875 Raymond Crijnen
230 20020716 58 14 100.0 % CA646427 Hai Nguyen

[Pete Randall]

Welcome back, Dan. I hope you were off on vacation and not slaving away off site somewhere. It must have been the week(s) for vacations. Paula was off to Dubai on holiday. Procura was also off somewhere. I was off to a class. I'm amazed they were able to get along without us all.

;^0

Pete

[Andi Rigauer]

Hi DAN,

nice Greetings from Germany, This month I allready posted two messages in the Forum. And the first one was solved very quickly. But for the second one I'm still waiting. OK two thing I don't like on this forum are:
The performance is really bad and the most people I answer doesn't assign at least one point. But in summary I really like it. and sorry for that bad english :)

ok back to reality

cheers

Andi

[Pete Randall]

I think we need to get this back above the June Successes, so - BOUNCE!

[Jeanine Kone]

I'd just like to say that I really love this forum. I have posted several questions in the past year, and every one of them has been answered. Not only are they answered, but they are answered very quickly! I really appreciate the time and effort that the members of this forum spend to help each other out. The help that I have received has prompted me to try and help others (as much as I am able anyway).

Thanks Everyone!

[Kimberly Ann]

Andi and Jeanine, thanks for your comments. Glad to hear you are receiving value from this service.

Pete, thanks for your help overall!

To Steve Powell: you can search the forums by clicking on "search" in upper left sidebar. When presented with the search UI, click on "Community Forums", enter keywords, and submit the search.

Thanks,
Dan

[Dave La Mar]

As is always suggested, I search for threads regarding questions I have.

On a weekly basis, I find a number threads of interest, even if the subject had not yet been considered.

This week I have instituted a performance report on our HP-UX Nclass machines based on threads of the uses of glance.

Aside from the experts out there I find a number of relatively new users, like myself, that supply very good solutions to problems and questions in general.

Many of the current skills I have obtained are directly attributable to the forum.

dl

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Merijn!

You have an anomoly in the statistics that I enjoy so much!. You reported that Theo Hill was promoted to wizard status, but that's untrue. The individual has 505 points in the *business* forum and 581 points (as a graudate) in the *ITRC* forum. Clearly, you are combining the totals. Of course, congratulations *are* in order to him, but I thought you'd like to know...

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/UserProfile/1,,CA660377!1,00.html

With warmest regards!

...JRF...

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

My points try to add *ALL* total points, not only the hp-ux forum. I probably can change that, but I guess I loose a lot of other statistics too.

# id-grep Theo\ Hill
20020422 195 505 CA660377 Theo Hill USA 0 0 - 20010706 20020422
20020503 212 406 CA660377 Theo Hill USA 0 0 - 20010706 20020501 34
20020513 215 406 CA660377 Theo Hill USA 0 0 - 20010706 20020501 34
20020523 136! 810 CA660377 Theo Hill USA 0 0 - 20010706 20020522 53 +404
20020530 207 503 CA660377 Theo Hill USA 0 0 - 20010706 20020522 53
20020602 207 513 CA660377 Theo Hill USA 0 0 - 20010706 20020604 60
20020612 124! 943 CA660377 Theo Hill USA 0 0 - 20010706 20020610 63 +430
20020619 124 989 CA660377 Theo Hill USA 0 0 - 20010706 20020618 66 286
20020621 200 990 CA660377 Theo Hill USA 0 0 - 20010706 20020618 66 286
20020626 130 1016 CA660377 Theo Hill USA 0 0 - 20010706 20020625 68 298
20020717 131 1040 CA660377 Theo Hill USA 0 0 - 20010706 20020625 68 298
20020724 130! 1080 CA660377 Theo Hill USA 0 0 - 20010706 20020718 73 +520 324
DB 1080 CA660377 Theo Hill USA 0 0 - 20010706 20020718 73 0 324


As you can see in the score there was some jojo effect. I've now guarded the stats that if an overview page states less points than the last report, it will keep the old value, so one can never `loose' points.

I bet the jojo was caused by the dynamic nature of the pages in which one of the total points for a category was omitted (temporary) and thus reporting less than the real total points earned.

HTH

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

I've just spent 15 minutes finding the meaning of "anomoly" and - sorry - I cannot find it. What does it mean?

[Pete Randall]

According to Webster's:

Anomaly 1: deviation from the common rule: irregularity 2: the angular distance of a planet from the perihelion as seen from the sun 3: something different, abnormal, peculiar, not easily classified

Pete

[Pete Randall]

And, as long as we're doing definitions - what the heck is a "jojo", Merijn?

Pete

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again) Hi Merijn:

Sorry, my misspelling. The word is "anomaly" and means something abnormal, incongruous or inconsistent.

I chose to call the promotion an "anomaly" because in the ITRC side he is a "graduate" and not a "wizard".

I still applaud your work and your statistics, though. :-)

Regards!

...JRF...

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Both, thanks for the translation :)

jojo: yoyo

That's all my on-line dictionary gives. It's a round plaything that winds up to go up and winds off to go down and up and down and up and ... Some fun versions even mak music if you do it right, others stay tumbling when you don't pull them up.

[Thierry Poels_1]

hmmmz,

jojo? well that would be a yo-yo ;-)
- A small toy which most likely originated in China. The first historical mention of the yo-yo, however, was from Greece in the year 500 B.C
- For the morbid minds: a yo-yo was used as a weapon in the 16th century in the Philippines

And as a picture says more than thousand words:
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ahrpa/opa/projxl/invthink/images/yoyo.gif

regards,
Thierry.

[Pete Randall]

Ahhhh, yoyo!! Now, I understand.

Thanks, Merijn.

Pete

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Dan, sorry, this type of discussion obviously is better located in the chatroom and not on the success thread.

If someone wants to talk about the statistics, please visit the chat, and don't continue here.

https://www.beepz.com/itrc-chat/client/index.html

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Merijn:

Please note that you posted the statistics here, so here is where I commented.

/no points please/

...JRF...

[Frederic Zeller]

Hi Dan

Great forum

I came here basically for HP OpenView but as most of our customer are on hollidays and the market is kind of slow, I have plenty time trying to solve problems on other subjects too

So I've been able to help in plenty other forums ( Sometimes I found out because the author says so or just gives plenty points !! )

I've learned a lot
sometimes just reading the questions/answer
but more often trying to find the answer by myself
( -> Because just reading again and again the complete manual is kind of boring, isn't it ?
But searching in it for "real" questions, that's better )

I guess it will help me more my coming HP-OV Certification ... ( I promised myself I would try it after receiving my wizard hat ... )


Without a forum like this, it's difficult to get motivated in playing with my own NMS to discover bugs,tricks,best ways to do, ...


So thanks again


Fred