Like a car loan officer hot on the heels of usability car salesmen, and in commemoration of World Usability Day, I’d like to list some of the papers and posters which my peers have presented at recent usability conferences. This will give Peer Revue re…
Keeping the Analytical Trenches Fresh
You know the old joke,
Q. How can you tell an extroverted statistician from an introverted statistician?
A. The extrovert looks at your shoes when they talk.
Well, the statisticians that I work with every day are a pretty lively bunch, so th…
Change background color of Xterm window
xterm -sb -fn fixed -ls -display $DISPLAY -bg honeydew3 &
Rename all vars in a dataset using SASHELP
*Create a temporary dataset… DSN;data dsn;a=1;b=2;c=3;d=4;e=5;f=6;run;%macro test(lib,dsn);*/1)*/ data _null_;      set sashelp.vtable(where=(libname=”&LIB” and memname=”&DSN”));      call symput(‘nvars’,nvar);run;*/2)*/ data …
Resources for Solaris and Active Directory Integration
A while back I worked with a client to implement Active Directory (AD) integration for a number of Solaris containers that made up their SAS platform. The main benefit of this was to allow all of the SAS users to use their Windows (Active Directory) credentials, the same ones they use to log into their […]
Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions in Ubuntu
What, you might be wondering, is a post about VirtualBox and Ubuntu doing on a blog that is primarily about SAS® platform administration and metadata? The answer to that question is that VirtualBox and Ubuntu are both platforms where I run SAS for the purposes of development, testing and exploration/learning. So, whilst not specifically related […]