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header file

assalamualaikum

mau nanya tentang header file,,contoh-contohnya,,dan fungsi yang ada pada masing-masing header file?

trus apa yang dimaksud dengan control statement, kata kunci pembentuk control statement, and contoh sederhana control statement —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Niamp (talk • contribs) .

Hello. This is the English Wikipedia. Your question seems like it's in some Indonesian language. Try the Indonesian Wikipedia or the Malay Wikipedia. —Keenan Pepper 01:04, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

The user apparently first created an article "Function of header file" asking their question in English, which of course was deleted and the user was forwarded here to RD. The original question was apparently asked in English, though only good morning..I'm nhiya..comes from Indonesia..I have some questions..do you know about the examples of header file,,and then the functions of h... appears in the deletion log.  freshofftheufoΓΛĿЌ  04:05, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Office and Image editing software

Is there a free (in price) office suite and image manipulation program that is as good as Microsoft Office 2007 and Photoshop CS 9, respectively, available? Please do not say OpenOffice.org or GIMP, they're nowhere near as good.--Frenchman113 on wheels! 02:04, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

You're absolutely right. They are better. Listen dude, if you want to use Microsoft Office, no one is stopping you from going out and buying it. If you don't feel like paying for an office suite, and I don't blame you, don't talk trash about the best we have to offer. OpenOffice.org is one the highest quality open source programs avaliable, and is the de facto free alternative to M$ Office. The GIMP can do everything to a photo that Photo Shop can. If you want something as good as the original, get the original. The most I can offer you as a answer to your question is a toned down expression of my current state of rage, plus a mere suggestion for alternative programs, but I assure you, they are not going to be as good as OO.o or the GIMP. Abiword as a M$ word replacement and Inkscape as a vector graphics editor. You may also want to take a look at GIMPShop --Russoc4 03:42, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Questions like that used to upset me. Then, I wrote a program (I forget what program it was) and a few people wrote to tell me it was nice. Then, one guy said it was terrible because it didn't do what he wanted it to do. Before I was able to think about his complaint, another person replied that my program was terrible because it only did what I said it would do and it didn't do what some random moron on the Internet wanted it to do. Now, I remember that comment and read the question here as, "OO and Gimp suck because they aren't identical in every way to Office and Photoshop." It quickly goes from a comment about the opensource software to a comment about the questioner. --Kainaw ^(talk) 15:27, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Now, you can either not bite the questioner and understand that that was an objective question and not expecting any specific answer, or you can continue with personal attacks. Judging from my understanding of mob mentality, it'll probably be the second.--Frenchman113 on wheels! 00:05, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

How are all these n00bs getting such cool animated avatars?

Many people hae veryu cool avatars but i cant seem to find where they're getting such a variety from.--Technic 07:04, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

What avatars are you talking about? Are you refering to userboxes maybe? —Mitaphane _talk 08:14, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

I think he is referring to message boards that let you have an "avatar" along with your username. There are many free download sites and many people just steal them from others. --Kainaw ^(talk) 14:24, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

If you Google for "avatar" you'll get many hundreds of sites with thousands of avatars. Most people don't make their own, but download theirs from one of these sites, or even from another user who had a particularly cool avatar... — QuantumEleven 11:47, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

And to be honest, it's not hard to make your own. All you need is an image editor that can produce animated gifs... such as The GIMP (each frame is a layer).--Frenchman113 on wheels! 00:08, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

duplicate fonts

Hello. I do a lot of graphics work such as newspaper advertisements, posters and the like. Therefore, I use a lot of different TrueType fonts, probably more than most people. I have many in my Windows^® fonts folder, but to keep the computer running efficiently, I keep a few thousand more on a disc for occasional use. Lately I’ve noticed that I have quite a few duplicate fonts on the disc under different file names. For example, “News Gothic” is there under the file name nwgthc.ttf as well as the file name newsg.ttf. And “Licenz Plate” exists as both licenz.ttf and l_plate.ttf. Those are just a couple of examples — I have found many others, and there are likely a lot I haven’t found. (I suspect this happened from acquiring fonts from different sources at different times, and not realizing I already had a particular font.) Anyway, while in the Windows^® fonts folder they show up under their proper title, on the disc they appear as just the file name. Is there anyway to determine which are duplicates without loading them all into the fonts folder (and slowing the computer down to molasses), and without opening each file and comparing them manually (which is time-consuming and I will still probably miss some). Thank you for your help. — Michael J 13:49, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

How about a Font-management program? While the article isn't one of our best, I'm sure it could give you a starting base from which to work off.Harryboyles 14:16, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Disable JS

How do I disable JS in IE? -- TheGreatLlama ^{(speak to the Llama!)} 13:59, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

You can't. Use Mozilla Firefox with NoScript. --Russoc4 15:36, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes you can. It's in Internet Options, advanced tab IIRC. By the way, firefox2 RC2 came out yesterday and it sucks big time.. might have to reconsider my ff fanboyishdom :( --froth^{T C} 17:28, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

I thought so too, but I can't seem to find it.. And yes, it sucks, but because none of my extensions work with it. --Russoc4 13:41, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

That's actually fairly easy to fix. All extensions come in an xpi file that you download and install. Open that xpi file with an archiver (I think the format is just a zip file with a different name), you should be able to find a config file in there. Edit that config file (it's easy, it's just an xml file, and it's clear where the version numbers are) to allow Firefox 2.0, save it (in the archive), and then install the new, edited xpi. That should do it! Oskar 15:34, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Turning UT:GOTY into pure engine

Hi!

I have Unreal Tournament v436. Any way to turn this UT into a version without weapons etc. so that it is just the pure engine?

Greets,HardDisk 18:10, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

You can download the source code if that's what you mean. Take out what you think doesn't constitute the "pure engine" and recompile it. Not sure what you'd do with a compiled engine with no user input or game at all in it though... --froth^{T C} 22:53, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

I want to remove weapons/health packs completely from game. HardDisk 13:54, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

PS: I have downlaoded the code, but as I have SourceSafe installed by mistake, I cannot view it:-(

Notepad it or open in an IDE then. Splintercellguy 02:41, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

what linux distro

I want command line only (and i dont want to download some huge desktop environment because I don't need it), with packages integrated (no separate downloading) that includes at least network drivers, g++ compiler, basic stuff. Also I've already tried ubuntu server but I can't get it to install on virtual pc.. so any others? --froth^{T C} 21:38, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

I use Redhat or Fedora without installing KDE or Gnome. If you just want a small install, Knoppix is very small but does have a GUI. --Kainaw ^(talk) 21:44, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

I use Slackware for which you can download just the bits you need (I get it from the UK mirror service, but there are lots of places). It is not the simplest to instal, but it is pretty straightforward and gives a fast lean platform to work with. Madmath789 22:01, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

I've installed Ubuntu Server on a virtual machine under QEMU, and gotten it to work that way. You might also want to look into Debian, which is perfectly willing to install without X. To be honest, once you've installed your distribution, you probably won't care what you're running. grendel|khan 17:32, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

DVD to iPod

Does anyone know of a free one step windows program to transfer DVDs to an iPod compatable format? Also, I would prefer a fast downloader. I don't n eed HD quality, just good enough for an iPod video. Thanks. QWERTY | DVORAK 22:35, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Encoding is a tricky business. Personally I'd use DVD Decryptor to rip the VOBs, and then mencoder or ffmpeg (download) to go to mp4. --froth^{T C} 23:05, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

You don't need to rip the VOBs first if you're going to use mencoder. Something like mencoder dvd://1 -vf scale=h:w -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mp4 -of mpeg -o file.mpg ought to do the trick; fiddle with the options to get the desired effect. Dysprosia 01:25, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Isn't there a free one step program? I am just looking for a quick solution. QWERTY | DVORAK 00:39, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

That is a "one step program". You only have to run one program, albeit with a lot of options. Dysprosia 07:14, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Personally I use DVD Decrypter to rip the VOBs, then Videora to convert those to .MP4, which iPod accepts. It doesn't take very long, and after doing it once you'll get the hang of it.

mandatory password changes

what's the point? Everyone just adds one to whatever number's at the end of the string.

If someone gets your password, or even everybody's password, mandatory password changes mean that whoever has these passwords will find them useless the next time the mandatory password change occurs. Even adding one to the number at the end of the password means an increase in security. Dysprosia 07:21, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

That increase in security is assuming that people aren't writing their passwords down on sticky notes and putting them on their monitor since they have to change their password every time they just begin remembering what it is. --Kainaw ^(talk) 15:11, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Lost data in Microsoft Word

I just closed a Word document and accidentally clicked "No" when I was prompted to save changes. Is there any way I can go back to the last autosave file? Please help! Thanks in advance. --Grace 23:24, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

If I remember correctly, MS Word opens a temporary file which is named "~$<name of file>"(look at the directory of a file when you open up Word) when it autosaves. MS Word automatically deletes this file on exit of the program. However, I don't think file shows up in Windows Recycle Bin. You can try a deletion recovery tool, but depending on how long ago this was(and how MS Word handles those temp files) that file may be lost forever. —Mitaphane _talk 04:03, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

I figured it out myself a little after I posted this question, but, for the benefit of others who might be asking the same question: Search for "autorecovery" on the Microsoft Office help website. You should find directions to the location of your autosave files. Saved my day! --Grace 05:17, 9 October 2006 (UTC)