Autodesk founder John Walker's "The Hacker's Diet" couples willpower with tools such as spreadsheets to engineer the weight away.

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Both the Switzerland-based Basel Committee on Banking Supervision1 (BCBS) and the Financial Services Authority2 (FSA) in the UK have recently made it clear that when relying on manual processes, desktop applications or key internal data flow systems such as spreadsheets, banks and insurers should have effective controls in place that are consistently applied to manage risks around incorrect, false or even fraudulent data.

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The new cloud system encompasses all email and desktop applications (such as documents and spreadsheets) for 30, 000 City employees across all City departments.

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Faster rotation translates into less time loading programs, but it will offer the biggest boost to applications such as word processors and spreadsheets that frequently access multiple files on the hard drive, says IBM's Walling.

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It is certainly powerful enough to run office suite applications such as word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, e-mail, instant messaging, Internet access for surfing and blogging, playing a few tunes and watching a DVD in flight (the battery will get you across America, if not an ocean).

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Called Y2K Scanner, this plug-in server module from Centennial works with Trend Micro's InterScan VirusWall to discover Y2K flaws in files created by spreadsheets, such as Lotus' 1-2-3 and Microsoft's Excel, as well as files from databases, such as Microsoft's Access and Inprise's dBase.

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Representative DAVID OBEY (Democrat, Wisconsin): We are simply getting spreadsheets which show total numbers by rough category such as human services or field operations.

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This whole frustration goes for several other file types as well, such as movies, images and even files that use the standard Google Doc format (Gdoc spreadsheets, for instance, can be emailed in PDF format, but can't be directly saved onto your device that way by default).

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