Cliffe

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.

• Genealogy / Family Tree
• The Naughty Knotty Page
• Free Laundry Symbols Chart
• The CliffeE-Store

Interesting Dates

Oct	27	James Cook is born, 1728
Oct	27	Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, born
New	York,	New York, 1858
Oct	27	Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933
Oct	27	New York's Boss Tweed is arrested on fraud charges, 1871
Oct	27	The first New York Subway is opened, 1904
Oct	27	Allan Apple Day
Oct	28	Columbus discovers Cuba, 1492
Oct	28	Constantine's army defeats forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge, 312
Oct	28	Harvard was founded in Massachusetts, 1636
Oct	28	Statue of Liberty was dedicated on Bedloe's Island, 1886
Oct	28	National Holiday in Greece
Oct	28	OHI Day in Cyprus
Oct	28*	Bank Holiday in Republic of Ireland
Oct	29	Stock Market Crash, 1929
Oct	29	Republic Day in Turkey
Oct	29*	Yitzhak Rabin memorial day
Oct	29	Duane Allman dies in motorcycle crash near Macon, Georgia, 1971
Oct	29	Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) released, 2009

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_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