welcome to our newest member

**GravyTrain** · July 24th, 2003, 03:31 AM

regular expressions are basically sets of symbols and syntactic characters to compare and contrast text strings.

you want a really tough one? tell me what this does....

s/(^[A_Z]{1})([a-z]+)\.sgml/\1\2\.html/g
tr/a-z/A-Z/

preemptive scheduling (not pre-emptive) is associated with the operating system and what processes get the os resources. in a preemptive scheduling scheme the operating system has the ability and control to interrupt the currently running process and move it to the ready state. non-premptive just allows the process to continue running until it must wait for another resource (usually an I/O device) or until it is completed.

and finally, your question about the cmos and mosfet crap deals more with electronics than it does with actual computing. if i am wrong in this statement, please forgive me and i will do better to answer the question. in fact, i'm not sure, but the cheat might be able to answer that one better than myself, although we are computer guys, not eletric engineers.

**superman251** · July 24th, 2003, 03:53 AM

I'm sure I can, but what is it you want to know about them? Well, it's time for lunch and I need to find some Java apps for my phone... see ya!

**GravyTrain** · July 24th, 2003, 01:20 PM

why the "deleted" message....what did it say....if you don't reply within a set time period....i will have to ban you

TastinGood · July 24th, 2003, 01:28 PM

it insulted the boring content of this thread but i deleted it after i realized that people may find the things that i post to be boring so i decided to delete it.