Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Boomtime, the 52nd day of Chaos 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

Feb  20  Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer
Feb  20  John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962
Feb  20  Meriadoc & Pippin meet Treebeard
Feb  20  J. Geils (J. Geils Band) is born, 1946
Feb  20  Yes sells out Madison Square Garden...without advertising, 1974
Feb  21  Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass
Feb  21  Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties
Feb  21  First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878
Feb  21  Malcom X shot to death in Harlem, 1965
Feb  22  National Cook a Sweet Potato Day
Feb  22  George Washington born, 1732
Feb  22  Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun
Feb  22  Passing of King Ellesar
Feb  22*  Parshat Mishpatim
Feb  23  W.E.B. DuBois born, 1868
Feb  23  Lt. Calley confesses, implicates Cpt. Medina, 1971
Feb  23  Republic Day in Guyana
Feb  23  George Friedrich Handel is born in Halle on the Saale, Germany, 1685
Feb  23  Johnny Winter is born in Leland, Mississippi, 1944
Feb  24  Winslow Homer born, 1836
Feb  24  Steve Jobs born, 1955
Feb  24  Impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begin, 1868
Feb  24  Ents destroy Isengard
Feb  24  Gregorian Calendar Day
Feb  24  SPI applies to register the term OpenSource, 1998

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