Recent content by Charles A Peirce

Hi okieiam, Ubuntu, and most other Linux distributions (all the ones I have tried) have effective power management that rivals that available in Windows. I have used use Linux on laptops for about 5 years now, and the only problem I have had is an old battery (more than ten years) which was...

Hi, I have one of these, but these specs on any computer are great. I am a programmer, so I never buy a computer, even for a member of my family, that can't handle some pretty heavyweight programming. This computer is just fine for that. I bought it for my daughter, who likes to play...

You can do this. I am sorry that most of the responses so far have been dismissive. I think that some may have considered the task too big for them to accomplish and therefor doubted your ability to do the task. As you will have gathered from some of the answers, you cannot just take the code...

You problem lies in what happens when you press the "enter" key, and how scanf handles it. (That's right - most programming problems happen a few lines earlier in the code than they appear. It's just one of those things.) When you press "enter" on some computers the characters #13 and #10 enter...