Kodos has invaded

I was doing some REGEX and wanted to test something and behold kregexpeditor is not included in KDE4. So I looked for an alternative. "sudo apt-cache search regex | grep 'various stuff'". I found kodos as a python thing and I like it better than kregexpeditor, Many of the KDE4 things are new and as such require a learning curve. It is worth it though. I like kodos and a new perspective always helps me. It has many new features and if you want to learn REGEX from scratch even, this is a good tool, IMHO.

As far as those who catch on to gravity, the gravity guild has an open invitation and there is no leadership to the guild. It is simply a collection and many tools are already available to those who can understand how to use them. Just like life, what you do with your fingers is your business and if you feel that sticking your finger in somebody's eye is the intelligent thing to do then that is what you will probably do. Knowledge does not come with DRM, as much as some of those who sell it, would like you to believe.

The package kregexpeditor is "gettable" and seems to work fine. Python package kodos has not been modified in years, but seems quite adequate and I have the Python source and can make whatever changes I like if something needs to be added, but most of this is a learning experience anyway. It has net interface built in and can be modified for lots of fun things.

This editor is much more intuitive, I think, and it is more obvious what is taking place and I am still trying to make it goof up, but haven't found a hole yet.

I use gimp a lot along with blender, ImageMagick, and InkScape. I can modify the Python and scheme scripts or mess with the XML and change the filters to do different things. I was trying to figure out how to create a specific effect today and to my surprise, I can combine various commands and do something you can't do in other softwares AFAIK. It is the flexibility to do almost anything that I appreciate. The ability to add scripts and extend the capabilities is priceless. And sharing them is easy.

GIMP: Here is an easy one I discovered today. I select using the color tool and get little spots outside the area I want and I could erase the selection, but you can also decrease selection by 1 or 2 and the increase selection by the same amount and all the little speckle selects go away.

The new methods of selection add, intersect and exclude are also very helpful.

Tomorrow was almost Today

I watch a lot of blogs and sites and I have tools to do searching and analysis to separate the wheat from the chaff long before I look at it and today I saw somebody almost stepped on the secret of gravity and it IS coming and when it does, ceiling cat help us, because it is going to be an E ticket ride. I'm using beta Wikipedia and I hope that doesn't screw up my links.

ADDED: I have been looking further and my best guess is that it will be known by at least one more in less than 3 months. Locks in two dimensions and by my analysis of the way in which the game solved, once the complexity is reduced by two dimensions, the rest follow faster. It is just a matter of limiting the scope of analysis and once you get close it is simple to just wander around aimlessly to find the last connections. I will watch for more signs. It is hard to say how it would effect someone else. In my case it caused cascade understanding and a bit of denial. It is unmistakable now, this is the first wave of the newest technology change. Understanding electricity was a major factor in new technology and it would seem that understanding gravity would have very little effect as it is a force that is very weak in comparison to electrical effects. We are here again and if you look historically at the turn of the century 1900-1920 it was very similar. Something new was becoming known and many new things were created. I couldn't list the possible outcomes, but the products of gravity technology could dominate new discoveries for decades.

I don't really want other people to understand, as it scares me a bit. It is like genetics. At first I thought it was too scary and that fiddling with gene sequences was somehow evil, but I have come to realize that nature does more genetic engineering at random than we could ever do. And it is true with physics also. The chaos of the universe is more dangerous than the directed randomness of even disturbed individuals. People worry about crazies and terrorists, but look at what one single collapsing neutron star can do. It is beyond sociopath, it just is. I doubt that the most evil creature ever born in the universe could do enough damage to even get an honorable mention in the super nova hall of fame. I see many things and I look forward to seeing what potential applications I failed to consider. It scares me, but a roller coaster ride wouldn't be much fun if there were Ø ø risk involved. CamelCase uint64_t 0x FaceØfBøe

The destructive force of maniacs is limited by the fact that they destroy and in the process destroy their effectiveness to do damage. A virus is somewhat like that. If it kills the host, it kills its mechanism to survive. Madness and crazies will always exist and they are self limiting in the same way any directed destructive force is limited, by the fact that destruction inherently limits the complexity and effectiveness of action. There are characteristics of many systems that act to clamp the system in limits due to the interaction of many variables. In our culture I assume it is the biological drive to genetic selection which forms the foundation of conflict even though it likely has no effect on the evolution of advanced species. It seems hard to believe that selection of species on ability to evolve a new form would be a dominant strategy to directed evolution. It seems to me that random combination and the mystique which surrounds it is purely a remnant. Strange images lurk in the corner case of existence.

I saw an article that every inch of height above 5'8" is worth $30,000 in the dating game. Doesn't that tell something about people. I would be a quarter million to the good in that case. It is stupid. And that is why the my elvi grep --invert-match 'Angelina'

So in the process I discovered something and I will make a new post to cover the technicalities. kodos and kregexpeditor