Congrats to Bill Hassell on 3-10K

[V. Nyga]

Congrats Bill!

Time to get the first star.

Best wishes
Volkmar

[Andrew Merritt_2]

Hi Bill,
Congratulations on this milestone!

I had the pleasure of meeting you in Atlanta a few years back when you were still with HP.

All the best for the next 30k :-)

Andrew

[Eric Antunes]

Bill,

Many Congratulations for this achievement and thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Best Regards,

Eric Antunes

[LiPEnS]

Congrats from Poland!

You're doing a great job!

Soon I catch up?? :-)

Regards LiPEnS

[Yogeeraj_1]

Congratulations Bill!

we like you and appreciate all your responses.
You are already a star!

cheers
yogeeraj

[Alexander M. Ermes]

Suddenly they all wake up again,
all the great guys in the five digits ranks to congratulate Bill to this milestone.
Bill, i saw you start. It is always a pleaure to read your nice replies, may it rely on computers or as a croach for somebody's soul. Keep it that way, Mr. Forum-Gentleman.
THANKS
Alexander M. Ermes

[Olivier Decorse]

Congratulations Bill !

What a big score, and thank's a lot for your itrc participation !!!

Olivier.

[Ted Buis]

Bill Hassell was great resource while he was at HP to me personally and has continue to be a great resource to the HP community even after he left. He selflessly contributed his time to presentations at HPWorld. He was well recognized for all the qualities that SEP mentioned and more, inside of HP, and I am glad to see he is getting some of the recognition he deserves.

Best wishes to Bill.

Ted

[Dave Unverhau_1]

What a patient and gracious guy!

I'll never forget when I first laid eyes on Bill, during a field-on-loan stint many years ago in the Response Center. I had asked one of the RCE's I was working with if he knew Bill. He said "Everybody knows Bill -- wana meet him?" and he led me around the corner to Bill's cubicle. The scene there reminded me of the counter at a good deli at noon. I joined a long line of people waiting to ask Bill questions, and watched and listened as he patiently and knowledgeably responded to each one. Each person left satisfied. When it was my turn, I had no question -- just wanted to meet the guy. He greeted me like a distant relative he had hoped to meet and made me feel like he was genuinely glad I had stopped to visit.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge over the years, Bill -- may you be blessed indeed!

Best Regards,

Dave

[Deoncia Grayson_1]

Congratulations!!!

Keep up the great work :-)



De

[Steven E. Protter]

LiPEnS,

5 points closer to the top.

But Bill's going to get 10 when he notices this thread.

:-)

SEP

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi Bill,

congratulations on reaching this important mile to your first star. Thank you very much for the many contributions.

Michael

[Devesh Pant_1]

Congrats Bill!

Great milestone

DP

[Fabio Ettore]

Hi,

many many congratulations to a great contributor of this forum. Bill, thanks for that and sharing your great experience here.

Best regards,
Fabio

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

I've been busy with Special Olympics Equestrian this weekend so I missed Steven's most gracious post until now. My thanks to all of you for your kind comments. Knowledge is meaningless if it is not shared. Many years ago, I heard an amazingly accurate description of human nature:

"No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care."

Everything I've learned is a result of many other people, from HP Education instructors to support people in the many divisions in HP, to the many engineers in the Response Centers worldwide. Oh, there were a few experiences that I had to learn on my own (like accidently removing /usr/local/bin on some 350 servers in the North American HP Response Centers) but the school of Hard Knocks (experience) is hard to forget.

I do enjoy sharing what I know. I think it is a fairly common trait among system administrators. I very much miss Interex and HP World and the opportunities for thousands of people to learn best practices. There are a few groups that have continued such as Interex Netherlands, and I certainly would like to continue speaking and providing help where I can.

Again, thanks to you all for your kindness.

Bill

[Zygmunt Krawczyk]

Congratulations Bill!
Best Regards,
Zygmunt

[melvyn burnard]

Bill's surname now spelt correctly

[S.Rider]

Congrats Bill,
I remember sitting in on many fine sessions that Bill gave at various Share's/Intrexe's/Sage's/etc in the past. That man knows alot about everything.

[Steven E. Protter]

Did I mispell his surname in the title? Then 65 posts and nobody noticed until now?

Hard to believe, but not impossible for one as typing impaired as I.

SEP

[Andrew Merritt_2]

Actually, I reported it in the November issues thread on Nov 11, but no-one seemed to notice, so I reposted today.

Andrew (no points for this!)

[Yogeeraj_1]

congratulations Bill

well done

i always learnt from your replies!

cheers
yogeeraj

[Trond Haugen]

Congratulations with points well deserved Bill.
Crown off for you. ;-)

In my view any posting by Bill is well worth reading.

Regards,
Trond

[Pal Szabo_1]

Hi Bill!

Congrats from Hungary!
I read some answers from you and these are really helpful, and shows a deep knowledge ...

Regards:
Paul

[Frank de Vries]

Congrats from Holland and Belgium !!

I know you are worth it, I spotted
your asnwers stand out among the others,
so I went back to put in a personal
note !!

Well done
Frank

[Mohan_24]

Congratulations.... Keep up the nice work