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
| Dec | 05 | Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States, born in |
| Kinderhook, | New | York, 1837 |
| Dec | 05 | Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901 |
| Dec | 05 | End of Prohibition, 1933 (at least the alcohol part) |
| Dec | 05 | Phi Beta Kappa founded, 1776 |
| Dec | 05 | The Eighteenth Amendment repealed, ending Prohibition, 1933 |
| Dec | 05 | Death of Smaug |
| Dec | 05 | King Bhumibol's Birthday, National Day and Father's Day in Thailand |
| Dec | 05* | Parshat Vayishlach |
| Dec | 05 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies in Vienna, Austria, 1791 |
| Dec | 06 | St. Nicholas' Day |
| Dec | 06 | Independence Day in Finland |
| Dec | 06 | First sound recording made by Thomas Edison, 1877 |
| Dec | 06 | The Rolling Stones play Altamont Speedway near San Francisco, 1969 |
| Dec | 06 | Festival of Nicolas, an aspect of Odin, leader of the hunt |
| Dec | 07* | First Sunday of Advent (4th Sunday before Christmas) |
| Dec | 07 | Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 1941 |
| Dec | 07 | Delaware Day in Delaware |
| Dec | 07 | Independence Day in Ivory Coast |
| Dec | 07 | Independence Day in Panama |
| Dec | 07 | Harry Chapin is born in New York City, 1942 |
| Dec | 08 | Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65BC |
| Dec | 08 | James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894 |
| Dec | 08 | Feast of the Immaculate Conception |
| Dec | 08 | First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965 |
| Dec | 08 | Japan enters Second World War with invasion of Pantai Sabak, Kelantan, 1941 |
| Dec | 08 | Blessing of the Water in Uruguay |
| Dec | 08 | Mother's Day in Panama |
| Dec | 08 | Our Lady of the Cacupe in Paraguay |
| Dec | 08 | Jim Morrison is born in Melbourne, Florida, 1943 |
| Dec | 08 | John Lennon is shot and killed in New York City, 1980 |
| Dec | 08 | Afflux (50th of the Season of The Aftermath) |
| Dec | 09 | Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884 |
| Dec | 09 | Independence Day in Tanzania |
| Dec | 09 | The Who's "Tommy" premieres in London, 1973 |
| Dec | 09 | Yule Cleansing - The Danish fetch water for brewing the Yule-Ale |
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 |