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.

Aug	12	National Middle Child Day
Aug	12	Thomas Mann's Death, 1955
Aug	12	First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977
Aug	12	Last US ground troops out of Vietnam, 1972
Aug	12	Queen's Birthday in Thailand
Aug	12	Leos Janacek dies in Ostrava, Czech republic, 1928
Aug	12	Zaraday (5th of the Season of Bureaucracy) Festival of Zarathud the Staunch
Aug	13	Alfred Hitchcock born, 1899
Aug	13	Annie Oakley born, 1860
Aug	13	Fidel Castro born, 1927
Aug	13	Berlin wall erected, 1961
Aug	13	Li'l Abner debut, 1934
Aug	13	Proclamation of Independence in Central African Republic
Aug	13	Women's Day in Tunisia
Aug	13	Dan Fogelberg is born in Peoria, Illinois, 1951
Aug	14	National Creamsicle Day
Aug	14	First Unix-based mallet created, 1954
Aug	14	IBM PC announced, 1981
Aug	14	Social Security begins in US, 1935
Aug	14	Independence Day in Pakistan
Aug	14	Waddi Dhahab in Morocco
Aug	14	Day of the Burryma

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'`

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