Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Sweetmorn, the 3rd 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

Mar  16  George Clymer born, 1739
Mar  16  James Madison, 4th President of the United States, born in King George
County,  Virginia,  1751
Mar  16  MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by US infantrymen
Mar  16  Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926
Mar  16  Black Press Day; first US Black newspaper founded in 1827
Mar  16  First european demonstration in Bruxelles, 1997
Mar  17  Saint Patrick's Day
Mar  17  Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped
Mar  17  Evacuation Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Mar  17  St. Patrick's Day - one of the Patron Saints of Ireland
Mar  17  Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane) is born in San Francisco, 1942
Mar  17  Celebration of Trefuilnid Treochar (St.Patrick's day)
Mar  17  Debian Bug#300000 reported by Florian Zumbiehl, 2005
Mar  18  National Awkward Moments Day
Mar  18  Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965
Mar  18  Destruction of the Ring
Mar  18  Sheela's Day

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