Cliffe

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.

• Genealogy / Family Tree
• The Naughty Knotty Page
• Free Laundry Symbols Chart
• The CliffeE-Store

Interesting Dates

Dec	13	Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972
Dec	13	Dartmouth College chartered, 1769
Dec	13	Geminid meteor shower (look south)
Dec	13	Republic Day in Malta
Dec	13*	Chanukah
Dec	13	Ted Nugent, the motor city madman, born in Detroit, 1949
Dec	13	Wodan's Jag - the Wild Hunt of Odin and his Army
Dec	14	George Washington dies, 1799
Dec	14*	Chanukah
Dec	15	National Wear Your Pearls Day
Dec	15	Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976
Dec	15	Bill of Rights adopted, 1791
Dec	15	James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891
Dec	15	Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890
Dec	15	Statue Day in the Netherlands Antilles
Dec	15*	Chanukah
Dec	15	Thomas Edison receives patent on the phonograph, 1877

Tech

Technical notes and projects

Poor Man's Splunk Sample BASH script

Mouse cursor disappears using Synergy	Make 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 lag	Create /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