Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Setting Orange, the 10th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3192

A site for projects I work on, Cliffe related genealogy and anything else I need to put here. Music and media are located on the audiofumes.ca page.

Interesting Dates

Jan  09  National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day
Jan  09  Plough Monday
Jan  09  Fellowship reaches Lorien
Jan  09  Day of the Martyrs in Panama
Jan  09  James Patrick Page (Led Zeppelin) is born in Middlesex, England, 1945
Jan  10  Ethan Allen born, 1738
Jan  10  First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960
Jan  10  First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946
Jan  10  Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776
Jan  10  Blues guitarist Howlin' Wolf dies in Chicago, 1976
Jan  10  Jim Croce is born in Philadelphia, 1943
Jan  10  Pat Benatar is born in Long Island, 1952
Jan  10  Rod Stewart is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1945
Jan  10  Geraints Day
Jan  11  National Step in the Puddle and Splash Your Friends Day
Jan  11  Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757?
Jan  11  Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania
Jan  11  De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico
Jan  11  Milk delivered in bottles for first time, 1878
Jan  11  Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal
Jan  11  Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964
Jan  11  The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963
Jan  11  Armed Forces Day in Liberia
Jan  11*  Parshat Vayechi
Jan  12  Kiss a Ginger Day
Jan  12  "Long" John Baldry is born in London, 1941
Jan  12  Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania
Jan  12*  Adults Day in Japan
Jan  13  National Rubber Ducky Day
Jan  13  Horatio Alger born, 1834
Jan  13  Sophie Tucker born, 1884
Jan  13  Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws
Jan  13  National Liberation Day in Togo
Jan  13  Eric Clapton plays the "Rainbow Concert" in London, 1973
Jan  13  Midvintersblot

Tech

Technical notes and projects

Poor Man's Splunk Sample BASH script

Mouse cursor disappears using SynergyMake sure you are using X11 and not Wayland
echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
Disable Wayland in gdm by editting /etc/gdm3/custom.conf
[daemon]
WaylandEnable=false
Correct Ubuntu 16.04 Intel driver lagCreate /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf and enter
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "AccelMethod" "uxa"
Option "TearFree" "true"
Option "DRI" "3"
Option "VSync" "false"
EndSection

Silence crontab jobs>/dev/null 2>&1

Command running but want to logout without killing the command?

stop/suspend the job with control-Z. Find out the pid of the stopped job then use bg to send it to the background then use disown -h pid

Remove ^M with vi:%s/[ctrlkey+v and ctrl-key+M]//g
Strip tags| sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g'
Terminology Demo Synergy on iPad
Informacast-Edit Audio Informacast-Create Broadcast
Informacast-Bell Schedule E17 Window Manager demo -old