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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.

Stag and Doe Prizes

Interesting Dates

Sep  17  Battle of Antietam, 1862
Sep  17  National Heroes Day in Angola
Sep  18  Greta Garbo born, 1905
Sep  18  Jimi Hendrix dies from an overdose, 1970
Sep  18  Victory of Uprona in Burundi
Sep  18  Frodo and company rescued by Bombadil
Sep  18  Independence Day in Chile and Zimbabwe
Sep  18  Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) born in Fort Lee, Virginia, 1952
Sep  19  New Zealand women get the right to vote, 1893
Sep  19  Army Day in Chile
Sep  19*  Rosh Hashana I
Sep  19  Simon & Garfunkel reunite to play New York's Central Park, 1981
Sep  19  W. Churchill's speech suggesting United States of Europe, 1946

Genealogy

Family Tree

Tech

Technical notes and projects

The Naughty Knotty Page

Free Laundry Symbols Chart

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

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