Statement on Auditing Standard 70 short for SAS 70 has been developed and maintained by the AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERITFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS (AICPA).

Basically SAS 70 is “Report on Processing of the Transactions by the Service Organizations” , here certain standards are made for service auditors that audit and assess the internal controls in a service organization. When the auditing is done by the service auditor a report called ‘Service Auditor’s Report’ is issued by the service auditor.

An entity or business which provides the outsourcing services is called the service organization. The customers control environment can and mostly impacted by the outsourcing services. Some types of the service organizations are data centers, clearing houses, processors which claim insurance, and companies of credit processing.

SAS 70 is a very thorough audit which is mainly used like authoritative guidance. It is a very substantial and helpful audit for today’s market because it shows lucidity in the business which works with the service organization. It also shows to the service organizations the prospective clients which have been deemed and thoroughly checked by service organizations to have safeguards and satisfactory controls either while hosting the precise information or information to be processed such as the data about the customers who they deal with. READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

The PDF file format, also known as the Portable Document Format, is developed by the Adobe Corporation. Its main use is transferring of documents through the internet. All PDF files contain all the elements of the original presentation and hence avoiding problems like broken layouts or missing fonts and these files are protected from changes. To view these PDF files one has to download the Adobe Acrobat Reader which is supported by all operating systems.

Conversion of word documents into PDF –

Many people prefer to convert their word files into PDF for varied number of reasons a few being that it becomes easier to send a single uniform file to many people, getting the print outs of your file from computer shops is easier and there is no problem in transferring your file from one operating system to another. Word to PDF converter, OpenOffice, Adobe Acrobat are some of the software’s that could be used to convert and view Excel, Word and Powerpoint files into PDF.

Word files can also be converted into PDF files without downloading any programs by using online sites like ExpressPDF and doc2pdf etc. Files can be converted within minutes online by just uploading them to the site.

Conversion of word to PDF using a document converter –

Making the choice of a document converter as your printer is the main step for converting your word files into PDF. The document converter can be set as your default printer by following these steps –

Go to Start > Control Panel > Printers and faxes > right click on the document converter > select Set as Default.

To convert your documents follow these steps –

1) Open your word document.

2) Select Print.

3) Select the document converter (Universal Document Converter or Adobe PDF converter).

4) If you have the Universal Document Converter, then click properties and select the option Document to PDF. Select OK and then Print. If you have the Adobe PDF Printer, you can directly specify the location and name of the PDF file and then click OK and save it.

Conversion of word to PDF using OpenOffice –

If you are a Linux user, or you have OpenOffice installed on your computer, then converting of your documents can be done by using Macro. Follow these steps to use Macro –

1) Select Tools > Macros > Macro; in OpenOffice.

2) Select Organizer and then go to the Libraries tab.

3) Name your library by clicking new and set the Application/Document to soffice.

4) Go to the modules tab, on selecting your library click New Module. Give the module the name of Conversion.

5) On a new window popping up, paste the entire code given below –

“

Sub ConvertWordToPDF(cFile) cURL = ConvertToURL(cFile)

‘ Open the document.

‘ Just blindly assume that the document is of a type that OOo will

‘ correctly recognize and open — without specifying an import filter.

oDoc = StarDesktop.loadComponentFromURL(cURL, “_blank”, 0, Array(MakePropertyValue(“Hidden”, True), ))

cFile = Left(cFile, Len(cFile) – 4) + “.pdf”

cURL = ConvertToURL(cFile)

‘ Save the document using a filter.

oDoc.storeToURL(cURL, Array(MakePropertyValue(“FilterName”, “writer_pdf_Export”), ))

oDoc.close(True)

End Sub

Function MakePropertyValue( Optional cName As String, Optional uValue ) As com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue

Dim oPropertyValue As New com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue

If Not IsMissing( cName ) Then

oPropertyValue.Name = cName

EndIf

If Not IsMissing( uValue ) Then

oPropertyValue.Value = uValue

EndIf

MakePropertyValue() = oPropertyValue

End Function “

6) Exit OpenOffice after saving.

Using OpenOffice Macro on Linux for converting Word to PDF –

Create the following shell script in the directory /usr/local/bin/:

#!/bin/sh

DIR=$(pwd)

DOC=$DIR/$1

/user/bin/oowriter-invisible

“macro://Standard.Module1.ConvertWordToPDF($DOC)”

On the Word document file, run this shell script, and a PDF file will be created.

Using OpenOffice Macro on Windows for converting Word to PDF –

Open the file after closing OpenOffice and type the following command –

@ECHO OFF

“c:\program files\OpenOffice.org1.1.0\program\soffice”-invisible

“macro:////NameofyourLibrary.Conversion.ConvertWordToPDF(%1)”

Rem “c:\program files\OpenOffice.org1.1.0\program\soffice” -invisible

“macro:////NameofyourLibrary.Conversion.test(%1)”

Type, “convert c:\docu9.doc”, from the command line. The file docu9.pdf, will be present in the C:\ folder.

Convert Word to PDF on a Mac –

In Mac OS X, the process of converting word documents into PDF files is nearly the same as it is in Windows. But a document converter is not required in case of Mac OS X to convert Word into PDF. Follow these steps for conversion of your file in Mac OS X –

1) Open the file in the text editor.

2) Select the File menu and then click on Print.

3) A new window will open. Select the PDF button present on the bottom-left of the window and then click the “Save as PDF” option.

4) Rename your file, choose a location for it and then save the file.

The “No Audio Device Error” usually appears at your monitor screen when your computer doesn’t recognize any well-operating audio device that is attached to it. If you’re undergoing the same situations then it’s for sure that you’ll not hear any sound properly. However, in some cases you’ll only hear bleeping sounds which actually is something that the internal speaker of your system provides you.

When this message is displayed by your system, you should initially check the BIOS set up of your computer and make sure that the entire audio setting is absolutely Okay! Additionally, you should also ensure that you have installed the right drivers for your audio device because in many cases, this error appears due to conflict in drivers.

For ensuring whether or not your driver properly matches your audio device, you can take a look at the informative detail displayed by the audio device itself. Throughout the process, you should check the entire connections by ensuring that all the things have been plugged in their right place. In some cases, loose connections result to such error. READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

A satellite receiver designed so as to efficiently receive FTA (Free to Air) transmissions from satellites is a FTA receiver.

The MPEG-2 data compression protocol, which is generally used in maximum number of FTA satellite transmissions, can be easily decoded by the receiver.

Any DirecTV or Dish Network programming would not be un-encrypted by the FTA receiver.

Types of FTA Receiver –

Very similar to the DirecTV or Dish Network receivers, the FTA receivers are also stand-alone boxes.

There also exist a few PC based receivers. With the help of these devices the computer can be used to watch FTA satellite. READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

A loopback network connection uses a standard IP address which is 127.0.0.1.

This basically implies that in case you try connecting to 127.0.0.1, you are reverted back onto the machine being used by you.

In simple words this means that 127.0.0.1 is your machine as one gets connected to their own machine on attempting to connect to this IP address.

To explain this via an example let us consider that a person having a system named “joker” is attempting to connect to 127.0.0.1, then the output seen would be:

# Telnet 127.0.0.1

Trying 127.0.0.1… READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>