Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Setting Orange, the 19th day of Confusion 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

Jun  13  National Sewing Machine Day
Jun  13  Alexander the Great dies (323BC)
Jun  13  Pioneer flies past Neptune, and therefore out of the Solar System
Jun  13  Bilbo returns to Bag End
Jun  13  Corrective Movement in Yemen Arab Republic
Jun  13*  Parshat Sh'lach
Jun  14  Sandpaper invented by I. Fischer, Jr., 1834
Jun  14  Flag Day, USA
Jun  15  National Flip Flop Day (Third Friday in June)
Jun  15  Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway, 1843
Jun  15  UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951
Jun  15  Ben Franklin's kite experiment, 1752
Jun  15  Magna Carta signed, 1215
Jun  15  Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland Stanford
that  all  the hooves of a horse are off the ground during the gallop,
1878   
Jun  15  Edvard Grieg is born in Bergen, Norway, 1843
Jun  15  Harry Nilsson is born in Brooklyn, 1941

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