Cliffe.ca

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.

Tech

Technical notes and projects

Mouse cursor disappears using Synergy	Make 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 lag	Create /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'`

Nov	17	National Take A Hike Day
Nov	17	46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes, 1966
Nov	17	Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.", 1973
Nov	17	Army Day in Zaire
Nov	17	Corrective Movement in Syrian Arab Republic
Nov	18	Mickey Mouse Birthday
Nov	18	Imogene Coca born, 1908
Nov	18	William S. Gilbert born, 1836
Nov	18	First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952
Nov	18	Local standard time zones established for US, 1883
Nov	18	Battle of Viertieres in Haiti
Nov	18	Independence Day in Morocco
Nov	18	National Days (4 days) in Oman
Nov	18	Carl Maria von Weber is born in Eutin, Germany, 1786
Nov	19	National Play Monopoly Day
Nov	19	Gettysburg Address delivered, 1863
Nov	19	Anniversary of the 1968 Coup by the Army in Mali
Nov	19	Discovery Day in Puerto Rico
Nov	19	Feast Day of S.A.S. Prince Rainier in Monaco
Nov	19	Garifuna Settlement in Belize
Nov	19*	Day of Prayer and Repentance (Buss- und Bettag) in Federal Republic of Germany
Nov	19	Franz Schubert dies in Vienna, Austria, 1828

Terminology Demo	Synergy on iPad
Informacast-Edit Audio	Informacast-Create Broadcast
Informacast-Bell Schedule	E17 Window Manager demo -old