Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Pungenday, the 70th day of Discord 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

May  22  Ethernet first described, 1973
May  22  US Civil War ends, 1865
May  22  National Heroes Day in Sri Lanka
May  22*  Yom Yerushalayim
May  22  Richard Wagner is born in Leipzig, Germany, 1813
May  23  Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960
May  23  Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953
May  23  Federal Republic of Germany founded, 1949
May  23  Commonwealth Day in Jamaica and Belize
May  23  National Labor Day in Jamaica
May  23*  Parshat Bamidbar
May  23  Blues great Elmore James dies, 1963
May  24*  Pentecost (Whitsunday)
May  24  Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador
May  24  Bermuda Day in Bermuda
May  24  Day of Slav Letters in Bulgaria
May  24  Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) is born in Duluth, 1941
May  24  Mother's Day, in celebration of the Triple Goddes
May  25  National Wine Day
May  25*  Whitmonday
May  25  Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK, 1980
May  25  Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830
May  25  African Freedom Day in Zimbabwe
May  25  African Liberation Day in Chad, Mauritania and Zambia
May  25  Anniversary of the Revolution of 1810 in Argentina
May  25  Independence Day in Jordan
May  25  Memorial Day in New Mexico & Puerto Rico
May  25  Revolution in the Sudan in Libyan Arab Republic
May  25*  Bank Holiday in UK
May  25  International Towel Day, in honour of Douglas N. Adams
May  26  Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924
May  26  Al Jolson born, 1886

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