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
| Aug | 28 | Martin Luther King leads over 200,000 in civil rights rally in Washington, DC, 1963 |
| Aug | 28 | Heroes Day in Philippines |
| Aug | 28 | Frey Faxi |
| Aug | 29 | Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist |
| Aug | 29 | Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975; |
| Nova | Cygni | 1975. |
| Aug | 29 | Saruman enters the Shire |
| Aug | 29* | Parshat Ki Teitzei |
| Aug | 29 | Festival of Urda |
| Aug | 30 | John W. Mauchly born, 1907 |
| Aug | 30 | 75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842 |
| Aug | 30 | Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960 |
| Aug | 30 | St. Rose of Lima in Peru |
| Aug | 30 | Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected, 1963 |
| Aug | 30 | Huey P. Long Day in Louisiana |
| Aug | 30 | Victory Day in Turkey |
| Aug | 31 | 269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983 |
| Aug | 31 | Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888 |
| Aug | 31 | Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926 |
| Aug | 31 | Federation of Malaya gains independence from Great Britain, 1957 |
| Aug | 31* | Bank Holiday in England and Wales |
| Aug | 31 | Independence Day (Merdeka) in Malaysia |
| Aug | 31 | Independence Day in Trinidad and Tobago |
| Aug | 31 | Pashtunistan Day in Afghanistan |
| Sep | 01 | Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972 |
| Sep | 01 | Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859 |
| Sep | 01 | Army Day in Chile |
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_TYPEDisable Wayland in gdm by editting /etc/gdm3/custom.conf[daemon] |
| Correct Ubuntu 16.04 Intel driver lag | Create /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf and enterSection "Device" |
| 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 |