# Hello All
**URL:** https://forums.suse.com/t/hello-all/28044
**Category:** Chatting over the Back Fence
**Created:** [March 31, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/hello-all/28044 "2016-03-31T00:56:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2016, 3:54pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/hello-all/28044/21 "2016-04-04T15:54:21Z")
GofBorg,
gone as far as I know, but I had an “involuntary career change” when
Micro Focus were buying Novell, so I’ve been with another company for
the last 2 years
–
Shaun Pond
in my “day job” I work for ENGL; our aim is to make Windows deployment
easy
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### Author:  [@GofBorg](https://forums.suse.com/u/GofBorg)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/hello-all/28044/22 "2016-04-04T22:16:01Z")
Susan;2424633 Wrote:[color=blue]
> NNTP server settings I use are just [nntp.suse.com](http://nntp.suse.com), port 119. Nothing
> else special that I recall. No username or password required. 🙂
>
> –
> Susan
> Novell Community Chat Moderator
>
> So when are you changing to MicroFocus Community Chat Moderator? 🙂
> Significant rebranding going on. So, I reinstalled knode and it picked
> up my old
> NNTP settings(last retrieved message was 3/26/14)…gotta love Linux,
> and I see I am set to [nntp.novell.com](http://nntp.novell.com)
> port 119. I changed it to path [nntp.suse.com](http://nntp.suse.com) as you have and I get the
> same result:
> Timeout on server [nntp.suse.com](http://nntp.suse.com).
>
> Traceroute dies:
>
> traceroute to [nntp.suse.com](http://nntp.suse.com) (130.57.2.16), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
> 1 [23-31-150-198-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net](http://23-31-150-198-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net) (23.31.150.198) 20.584
> ms 20.827 ms 21.055 ms
> 2 96.120.5.53 (96.120.5.53) 26.473 ms 27.311 ms 27.549 ms
> 3 68.85.91.249 (68.85.91.249) 31.530 ms 32.417 ms 32.642 ms
> 4 [xe-7-0-22-0-ar01.b0atlanta.ga.atlanta.comcast.net](http://xe-7-0-22-0-ar01.b0atlanta.ga.atlanta.comcast.net) (68.85.232.81)
> 34.179 ms [xe-7-0-23-0-ar01.b0atlanta.ga.atlanta.comcast.net](http://xe-7-0-23-0-ar01.b0atlanta.ga.atlanta.comcast.net)
> (68.85.108.229) 35.226 ms 35.436 ms
> 5 [hu-0-4-0-6-cr02.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net](http://hu-0-4-0-6-cr02.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net) (68.86.90.81)
> 36.212 ms [hu-0-4-0-4-cr02.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net](http://hu-0-4-0-4-cr02.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net) (68.86.95.121)
> 13.726 ms [hu-0-4-0-7-cr02.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net](http://hu-0-4-0-7-cr02.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net) (68.86.91.77)
> 22.574 ms
> 6 [hu-0-12-0-0-pe04.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net](http://hu-0-12-0-0-pe04.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net) (68.86.88.114)
> 20.661 ms 26.591 ms 27.157 ms
> 7 [xe-0-3-1.GW1.ATL17.ALTER.NET](http://xe-0-3-1.GW1.ATL17.ALTER.NET) (152.179.241.109) 25.691 ms 26.677 ms
> 26.988 ms
> 8 [0.xe-11-2-0.XT4.SLT4.ALTER.NET](http://0.xe-11-2-0.XT4.SLT4.ALTER.NET) (140.222.228.51) 79.864 ms
> [0.xe-11-2-0.XT3.SLT4.ALTER.NET](http://0.xe-11-2-0.XT3.SLT4.ALTER.NET) (140.222.228.49) 78.374 ms 79.287 ms
> 9 [GigabitEthernet7-0-0.GW10.SLT4.ALTER.NET](http://GigabitEthernet7-0-0.GW10.SLT4.ALTER.NET) (152.63.88.145) 79.480 ms
> [GigabitEthernet6-0-0.GW10.SLT4.ALTER.NET](http://GigabitEthernet6-0-0.GW10.SLT4.ALTER.NET) (152.63.88.137) 80.324 ms
> [GigabitEthernet7-0-0.GW10.SLT4.ALTER.NET](http://GigabitEthernet7-0-0.GW10.SLT4.ALTER.NET) (152.63.88.145) 79.932 ms
> 10 [novell-gw.customer.alter.net](http://novell-gw.customer.alter.net) (157.130.161.126) 94.023 ms 93.162 ms
> 141.533 ms
> 11 192.94.118.247 (192.94.118.247) 74.618 ms 73.448 ms 74.664 ms
> 12 \* \* \*
> 13 \* \* \*
> 14 \* \* \*
> 15 \* \* \*
> 16 \* \* \*
> …
> 30 \* \* \*[/color]
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### Author:  [@GofBorg](https://forums.suse.com/u/GofBorg)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/hello-all/28044/23 "2016-04-04T22:26:01Z")
laurabuckley;2424627 Wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi G,
>
> Posts in “chat” areas aren’t counted, only in product forums I’m afraid.
> The captcha should go away after your account has been active for a few
> days, or when you post in a product related forum.
>
> Not too sure if that helps you?
>
> Cheers,[/color]
That explains a bit but still don’t know why all of my extended history
has gone bye bye in the first place.
It seems that my SUSE side info is gone as well. Oddly both Novell/SUSE
reflect my join date as the time when I lost the ability
to connect to the forums except via web interface (March 2014…instead
of 1999). Seems it might be related.
Nothing quite like crippling data loss! Woohoo!
## – GofBorg
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### Author:  [@GofBorg](https://forums.suse.com/u/GofBorg)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/hello-all/28044/24 "2016-04-04T22:46:01Z")
Shaun Pond;2424720 Wrote:[color=blue]
> GofBorg,
> gone as far as I know, but I had an “involuntary career change” when
> Micro Focus were buying Novell,
> [/color]
I seem to recall that now that you mention it. Getting old now so the
brain fog is kicking in.
What do you make out of this beast called Win10? Kinda funny they gave
it a version number since
this is supposed to be the last ‘version’ of Windows. Should have just
called it Windows since it’s basically
going to be referred to by build numbers.
I have a limited pilot in my office with it and it’s pretty much been
chaos. IT is becoming a moving target with all
the automatic updating software. There is no stability in the operating
environment. Getting bug reports on an almost daily basis with browsers.
The new help desk mantra
is, “Have you tried another browser?”. It’s a bit crazy.
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### Author:  [@GofBorg](https://forums.suse.com/u/GofBorg)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/hello-all/28044/25 "2016-04-04T22:46:01Z")
Also is it normal to not be able to edit your profile?
I get permissions issues when I click Edit Profile.
GofBorg, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be
due to one of several reasons:
Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this
page. Are you trying to edit someone else’s post, access administrative
features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your
account, or it may be awaiting activation.
## – GofBorg
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2016, 9:17am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/hello-all/28044/26 "2016-04-05T09:17:45Z")
Hi G 🙂
This place is still like Hotel California 😃
[color=blue]
> So I am wondering those of you that have left Netware behind, which way
> did you go…
> Windows? SLES? OES Linux? or other?[/color]
Other - after my last NW-related position was ended in 2006, I went into
software testing for a company active in smart ticketing for a few years
(tinkering with release management while I was there). Seem to have
fallen into a career change away from front-line IT stuff and into
management, managing 4 staff & the specification for smart ticketing in
the UK.
## Cheers Michael
“I’ve got the key to the gates of paradise, but I’ve got too many legs!”
* * *
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2016, 11:14am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/hello-all/28044/27 "2016-04-05T11:14:55Z")
GofBorg,
a lot of our customers are starting to do Windows 10 deployments - we’ve just published a new blog entry on Customising the Win 10 start menu [https://www.engl.co.uk/Blogs/tabid/157/Post/4405/Customising-the-Windows-10-Start-menu](https://www.engl.co.uk/Blogs/tabid/157/Post/4405/Customising-the-Windows-10-Start-menu)
it’s here to stay, and I have upgraded most of my home lab machines to Win 10…
–
Shaun Pond
in my “day job” I work for ENGL; our aim is to make Windows deployment easy
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2016, 4:39pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/hello-all/28044/28 "2016-04-05T16:39:38Z")
GofBorg sounds like they ‘said’:
[color=blue]
> Hey Steve!
> How are things in Wyoming?
> [/color]
> So my response to GofBorg’s comment is…
Things have been ok, busy at work but that appears to be on the
slowdown in the not to distant future.
–
Stevo
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### Author:  [@laurabuckley](https://forums.suse.com/u/laurabuckley)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2016, 10:06pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/hello-all/28044/29 "2016-04-05T22:06:01Z")
Hi G,
Yes this is normal. Until you have passed the “Captcha” phase you can’t
edit your profile as that’s another way that spammers and the like
spread FUD. I’m not too sure what the “wait limit” is on editing your
profile though. I can find out if you would like me to?
Cheers,
–
Laura Buckley
Technical Consultant
IT Dynamics, South Africa
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### Author:  [@kgroneman](https://forums.suse.com/u/kgroneman)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/hello-all/28044/30 "2016-04-05T22:46:15Z")
Tracing route to [nntp.suse.com](http://nntp.suse.com) [130.57.2.16]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 11 ms 7 ms KIMSROUTER [192.168.1.1]
2 10 ms 18 ms 35 ms 96.120.96.65
3 9 ms 34 ms 18 ms
[te-0-1-0-4-sur03.orem.ut.utah.comcast.net](http://te-0-1-0-4-sur03.orem.ut.utah.comcast.net) [68.87
…220.145]
4 11 ms 22 ms 13 ms
[be-3-ar01.saltlakecity.ut.utah.comcast.net](http://be-3-ar01.saltlakecity.ut.utah.comcast.net) [162.
151.49.197]
5 12 ms 22 ms 18 ms
[hu-0-0-0-0-ar01.sandy.ut.utah.comcast.net](http://hu-0-0-0-0-ar01.sandy.ut.utah.comcast.net) [162.1
51.49.102]
6 55 ms 39 ms 39 ms
[be-33660-cr01.sunnyvale.ca.ibone.comcast.net](http://be-33660-cr01.sunnyvale.ca.ibone.comcast.net) [68
…86.90.145]
7 29 ms 31 ms 39 ms
[be-10925-cr01.9greatoaks.ca.ibone.comcast.net](http://be-10925-cr01.9greatoaks.ca.ibone.comcast.net) [6
8.86.87.158]
8 28 ms 28 ms 34 ms 68.86.88.190
9 35 ms 34 ms 34 ms 23.30.206.94
10 43 ms 44 ms 58 ms [0.xe-11-2-0.XT3.SLT4.ALTER.NET](http://0.xe-11-2-0.XT3.SLT4.ALTER.NET)
[140.222.228.49]
11 44 ms 51 ms 56 ms
[GigabitEthernet6-0-0.GW10.SLT4.ALTER.NET](http://GigabitEthernet6-0-0.GW10.SLT4.ALTER.NET) [152.63
…88.137]
12 63 ms 70 ms 57 ms [novell-gw.customer.alter.net](http://novell-gw.customer.alter.net)
[157.130.161.126]
13 47 ms 59 ms 51 ms 192.94.118.247
14 \* \* \* Request timed out.
15 48 ms 62 ms 61 ms [nntp.opensuse.org](http://nntp.opensuse.org) [130.57.2.16]
Trace complete.
* * *
So what user ID are you having problems with? Nothing should be “lost”
in our system. Yea, spam measures keep you from editing your profile
until you’ve met certain criteria, which I can’t post publicly unless I
want the spammers to know. 🙂
–
Kim - 4/5/2016 1:43:09 PM
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### Author:  [@GofBorg](https://forums.suse.com/u/GofBorg)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/hello-all/28044/31 "2016-04-07T22:36:01Z")
Kim,
As you probably recall I started on these forums in the late 90’s. My
current join date is March 2016.
Both my Novell and SUSE forum profiles have been wiped clean. It doesn’t
really matter at this point I can
rebuild my friends lists but do kinda miss my Wise Penguin status.
## – GofBorg
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### Author:  [@GofBorg](https://forums.suse.com/u/GofBorg)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/hello-all/28044/32 "2016-04-07T22:36:01Z")
I like Windows 10 for the most part, just not sure how this forced auto
updating is going to work out. MS has
the potential to brick millions of PC’s. Quite sure I wouldn’t want that
responsibility and now we are entrusting that
they won’t make that mistake…to a company known for catastrophic
fails.
## – GofBorg
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### Author:  [@GofBorg](https://forums.suse.com/u/GofBorg)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/hello-all/28044/33 "2016-04-07T22:36:01Z")
Wow! Michael. Haven’t heard from you in a long while.
Apparently this really is Hotel California…next thing you know LLL,
BenS and BenJ will show up.
Management is good I think. You miss a bit of being in the trenches but
good leadership
is always welcome and many companies need it.
## – GofBorg
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### Author:  [@Jim1](https://forums.suse.com/u/Jim1)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/hello-all/28044/34 "2016-04-08T02:06:12Z")
On Tue, 05 Apr 2016 06:17:45 +0000, MichaelC wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hi G 🙂
>
> This place is still like Hotel California 😃
> [color=green]
>
> > So I am wondering those of you that have left Netware behind, which way
> > did you go…
> > Windows? SLES? OES Linux? or other?[/color]
>
> Other - after my last NW-related position was ended in 2006, I went into
> software testing for a company active in smart ticketing for a few years
> (tinkering with release management while I was there). Seem to have
> fallen into a career change away from front-line IT stuff and into
> management, managing 4 staff & the specification for smart ticketing in
> the UK.
>
> Cheers Michael[/color]
Wow, now there’s a face from the past. 🙂
Sounds like quite the change for you - I’ve also gone through a similar
change (actually, as of a week ago), as I’m now managing a team of
technical writers. 🙂
Jim
–
Jim Henderson, CNA6, CDE, CNI, LPIC-1, CLA10, CLP10
Novell/SUSE/NetIQ Knowledge Partner
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2016, 11:37am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/hello-all/28044/35 "2016-04-08T11:37:10Z")
GofBorg,
I hear ya
–
Shaun Pond
in my “day job” I work for ENGL; our aim is to make Windows deployment
easy
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### Author:  [@kgroneman](https://forums.suse.com/u/kgroneman)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/hello-all/28044/36 "2016-04-08T16:43:58Z")
To keep the forum database clean/current, I clear out all accounts that
haven’t logged in in over a year.
–
Kim - 4/8/2016 7:42:21 AM
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### Author:  [@lhaig](https://forums.suse.com/u/lhaig)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/hello-all/28044/37 "2016-04-08T16:54:58Z")
[color=blue]
> So I am wondering those of you that have left Netware behind, which way
> did you go…
> Windows? SLES? OES Linux? or other?
> [/color]
I have gone straight Linux and moved in to virtualisation.
I still have some Novell product licensing that belongs to me but can’t
use it as it only runs on Netware
Great to hear from you
Lance
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### Author:  [@GofBorg](https://forums.suse.com/u/GofBorg)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/hello-all/28044/38 "2016-04-11T19:37:42Z")
kgroneman;2425262 Wrote:[color=blue]
> To keep the forum database clean/current, I clear out all accounts that
> haven’t logged in in over a year.
>
> –
> Kim - 4/8/2016 7:42:21 AM[/color]
Inconceivable I didn’t log in in over a year but okay. I know I logged
into SUSE side numerous times.
Not sure about Novell side, kinda dropped off when the NNTP traceroute
started failing. I just finished
struggling to post this, started getting bad gateway messages, got a
strange MIcrofocus login page with
folders on the left. Seems like a mess in general but that’s what
happens when you have multiple mergers.
## – GofBorg
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### Author:  [@kgroneman](https://forums.suse.com/u/kgroneman)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/hello-all/28044/39 "2016-04-11T20:19:35Z")
Forum login uses Access Manager. We don’t want the user password
stored in the forum software AND we want you to be able to
automatically login with the same ID on any of our sites. So when you
visit the forums and you are logged in (either from the forum or coming
from another of our sites), the system checks to see if your login ID
matches one in the forum database. If it does, it lets you in and you
are logged in but never passes your password to the forum software. If
it doesn’t, it creates a new forum profile for you. (again, you have
to be logged in). If you had a forum profile before, and it was
deleted after 1 year, the next time you visit, the system would create
a new forum profile for you…which is apparently what happened in
your case. That’s OK…we all know it’s you. 🙂
–
Kim - 4/11/2016 11:12:48 AM
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### Author:  [@GofBorg](https://forums.suse.com/u/GofBorg)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2016, 12:46am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/hello-all/28044/40 "2016-04-12T00:46:02Z")
For some reason today my SUSE account is back to normal, join date of
2008, avatar is back…bizarre.
Oh well.
## – GofBorg
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