I not so good at C but I think this is the problem:
You type more than what getchar takes and put in s. the rest needs to be flushed.
http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/smartfaq.cgi?answer=1044873249&id=1043284392

edit: Newer mind this I did read it wrong
[I not so good at C but obvious line 29 don't do what we want it to do.
I think the best thing to do is to use the lim value so you newer add to much chars to the s array in the first place.
Your not getting any out of bounds error messages?]

If I understand it right copyright/licensing and patents is not exactly the same thing.

Read this if you are interested:
http://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2011/debian-patent-policy-faq.html

I don't know how it works but is it really so that a patent made on a later time can win over free/open code that was released long before the patent was filed?

While the patent system maybe is no good for software (As argued by FSF: http://endsoftpatents.org/), there is still lots of work done to protect free and open source software with the current system.

You can read more here:
http://linuxdefenders.org/

What do you see when you try to boot? Is it no output to the screen at all? Or at what step does it not work?

chekkizhar wrote:

The person came and setup in WIndows 7 and he configured, IP, gateway, DNS everything as" Obtain Automatically'

That means DHCP is used.

Check out:
http://www.slackware.com/config/network.php and:
http://www.slackbook.org/html/network-configuration.html

See this post (It's from last week): http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=51&id=12650

and also this:
http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=12666

Also if you are looking for a Gentoo forum I guess you know it's here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/

It's here:

http://kernel.org/

Edit: I noticed now that they recently got a security breach. It can be a good idea to wait a few days to let them sort it out. Just to be 100% sure.

This maybe have something with to do with the major changes in Gnome 3. Im not a user of Mandriva and I like Gnome 2.x a lot and I like to chose but I still think it a good move as the developers can put more focus on that desktop.

“This concentration of our efforts allowed us to make Mandriva Desktop the best KDE-based distro in the free software industry,” the software's developers explain.

Most of all, Why would you like to loose you dedicated customer's??

So why do you post that here? If you are one of Mandrivas customer I suggest you talk with Mandriva.

chekkizhar wrote:

Because, "system" is a library, which can be used to execute any shell commands from program,if we want. So, I won't say "system" is a system call. just my opinion Aron.

Ok so we have the same opinion, did I miss something?

chekkizhar wrote:

Well, according to me,
[code]
nread=read(,,,,)
[/code]
is a system call.

I don't agree with you on that, it's a C wrapper function to a system call.

It should be noted that the terms "system call" and "syscall" are often incorrectly used to refer to the aforementioned C standard library functions, particularly those that act as a wrapper to corresponding system calls with the same name.

chekkizhar wrote:

And thanks for the link Aron.

Richard, if you want Dennis Ritchie book soft copy, let me to know. I have that.

Happy provider of links :)

I have planed to get a hard copy of K&R in a long time, I have to buy it one day.
I guess that soft copy is copyrighted right?

I think using http://sourceforge.net/ is the easies thing to do, they have lots off mirrors and developers can care about what matters.

Also check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_facilities

I checked out my "University mirror" http://ftp.sunet.se/ and yes what do I see they are mirror providers to sourceforge!

Edit: Btw I have seen distributions that only have there ISO-files on SF and it's enough for world distribution. So you only have to put one download link on the distro page :D (you can always go with torrents to)

Thank you mfillpot for making the site admins aware of this.

I don't remember why I was turning of ABP (Adblock Plus Firefox plugin) in the first place.