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(on Wikipedia)
www.lua.org

A programming language of some note.

I had some small interest in this language, primarily because it’s used for World of Warcraft addon programming and general scripting , but I ended up losing interest in it and in programming in general.

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(on Wikipedia)
https://invisible-island.net/dialog/

A program to present a commandline dialog, letting a scripter get user input.

Capable enough for everyday scripts. Capable enough that to get a “GUI” dialog, I would rather spawn a terminal and use dialog.

  • cat
  • The shell builtin read.
  • A GUI option would be Xdialog.
  • I think it’s hilarious there are so many nice screenshots of a text program.



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IBM Model M keyboard numlock
IBM Model M

was freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/numlockx/
was home.kde.org/~seli/numlockx/

A GUI program that turns NumLock on. Great for turning it on as X starts.

Why ever numlock would be turned off by default is beyond me. It’s not that I can’t see a use for it as a cursor pad, but it’s a number pad. That’s just not “use for those keys”. That’s their damned name!



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