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 | 27 | Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays |
| Mar | 27 | Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958 |
| Mar | 27 | Armed Forces Day in Burma |
| Mar | 28 | National Weed Appreciation Day |
| Mar | 28 | Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer |
| Mar | 28 | DEC announces PDP-11, 1970 |
| Mar | 28 | Three Mile Island releases radioactive gas, 1979 |
| Mar | 28* | Parshat Vayikra |
| Mar | 28 | Sergej Rachmaninow dies in Beverley Hills, 1943 |
| Mar | 28 | Fabrizio Polacco passed away, 2001 |
| Mar | 29* | Palm Sunday (7 days before Easter) |
| Mar | 29 | Swedish settled Christiana (Wilmington) DE, 1638 |
| Mar | 29 | Flowering of the Mallorn |
| Mar | 29 | Death of President Barthelemy Boganda in Central African Republic |
| Mar | 29 | Memorial Day in Madagascar |
| Mar | 29 | Carl Orff dies in Munich, Germany, 1982 |
| Mar | 29 | Dr. Hook gets a group picture on the cover of "Rolling Stone", 1973 |
| Mar | 30 | Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746 |
| Mar | 30 | Sean O'Casey born, 1880 |
| Mar | 30 | Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853 |
| Mar | 30 | Alaska purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, 1867 |
| Mar | 30 | Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977 |
| Mar | 30 | Pencil with eraser patented, 1858 |
| Mar | 30* | Seward's Day in Alaska (last Monday) |
| Mar | 30 | Eric Clapton is born in Surrey, England, 1945 |
| Mar | 31 | National Crayon Day |
| Mar | 31 | Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher |
| Mar | 31 | Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946 |
| Mar | 31 | National Day in Malta |
| Mar | 31 | Joseph Haydn is born in Rohrau, Austria, 1732 |
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 |