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Who doesn’t like bargains? I’m sure you will all agree that good quality at a next-to-nothing cost is irresistible. My recent Dollarama run had me ecstatic about the gloves that come in all colours, styles and sizes for just over a dollar. (F…

NOTE: Booked and Ready for SGF (SAS Global Forum)

My SAS Global Forum (SGF) paper proposal has been accepted by the conference organisers and is scheduled for 5:40pm on Wednesday April 6th. You can see further details in the conference agenda builder (warning: big page, slow to load).

My pa…

NOTE: SAS Success

For the second year in a row, SAS has been judged as Best Company To Work For by Fortune. In fact it’s the 14th year in a row that SAS has been included in Fortune’s top 100 companies to work for.

If you are a SAS employee you’ll be pleased; but if yo…

Resetting File Permissions in Windows Server 2008 R2

Today I needed to reset the permissions for a bunch of files in a directory on a SAS server (running Windows Server 2008 R2) so that they reverted back to the inherited permissions from the directory they were contained in (they currently had non-inherited explicit permissions for a particular user). There were too many to […]