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
| Oct | 09 | First two-way telephone conversation, 1876 |
| Oct | 09 | Independence Day in Uganda |
| Oct | 09 | Independence of Guayaquil in Ecuador |
| Oct | 09 | Korean Alphabet Day in South Korea |
| Oct | 09 | Leif Erikson Day commemorates the discovery of North America in AD 1000 |
| Oct | 09 | Republic Day in Khmer Republic |
| Oct | 09* | Hoshana raba |
| Oct | 09 | John Entwistle is born in London, England, 1944 |
| Oct | 09 | John Lennon born in Liverpool, England, 1940 |
| Oct | 09 | Leif Erikson Day |
| Oct | 10 | Beginning of the Wars for Independence in Cuba |
| Oct | 10 | Foundation of the Workers Party in North Korea |
| Oct | 10 | Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun. Moves into night sky. (1984) |
| Oct | 10 | Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud, 1973 |
| Oct | 10 | National Day in Taiwan |
| Oct | 10 | Oklahoma Historical Day in Oklahoma |
| Oct | 10* | Shmini Atzeret |
| Oct | 10* | Parshat Vezot Habracha |
| Oct | 10 | John Prine is born in Maywood, Illinois, 1946 |
| Oct | 10 | Giuseppe Verdi is born in Le Roncole, Italy, 1813 |
| Oct | 10 | Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) released, 2010 |
| Oct | 11 | "Saturday Night Live" premiers on NBC-TV, 1975 |
| Oct | 11 | The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking, 1976 |
| Oct | 11 | The first steam powered ferry ran between New York and Hoboken, 1811 |
| Oct | 11 | The second Vatican Ecumenical Council opens in Rome, 1962 |
| Oct | 11 | First broadcast of Saturday Night Live, 1975 |
| Oct | 11 | Day of the Revolution in Panama |
| Oct | 11 | Anton Bruckner dies in Vienna, Austria, 1896 |
| Oct | 11 | Old Lady of the Trees |
| Oct | 12* | Thanksgiving |
| Oct | 12 | National Gumbo Day |
| Oct | 12 | Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie died at the age of 70, 2011 |
| Oct | 12 | Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962 |
| Oct | 12 | Bahama Natives discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492 |
| Oct | 12 | Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN, 1960 |
| Oct | 12 | Man O'War's last race, 1920 |
| Oct | 12 | Native Americans discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492 |
| Oct | 12* | Thanksgiving Day in Canada |
| Oct | 12 | Day of the Race in Argentina |
| Oct | 12 | Discovery Day in Bahamas |
| Oct | 12 | National Day in Equatorial Guinea and Spain |
| Oct | 12 | Our Lady Aparecida Day in Brazil |
| Oct | 12 | Pan American Day in Belize |
| Oct | 12* | Health Sports Day in Japan |
| Oct | 12 | Ray Conniff dies after falling down and hitting his head, 2002 |
| Oct | 12 | The Jimi Hendrix Experience is formed in London, 1966 |
| Oct | 12 | Debian Bug#600000 reported by Cyril Brulebois, 2010 |
| Oct | 13 | National No Bra Day |
| Oct | 13 | Lenny Bruce is born in New York City, 1925 |
| Oct | 13 | Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC |
| Oct | 13 | Italy declares war on Germany, 1943 |
| Oct | 13 | US Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress |
| Oct | 13 | King Bhumibol's Memorial Day in Thailand |
| Oct | 13 | St. Edward's Day - Patron saint of England |
| Oct | 13 | Paul Simon is born in Newark, New Jersey, USA , 1941 |
| Oct | 13 | Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) released, 2005 |
| Oct | 13 | Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) released, 2011 |
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_TYPEDisable Wayland in gdm by editting /etc/gdm3/custom.conf[daemon] |
| Correct Ubuntu 16.04 Intel driver lag | Create /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf and enterSection "Device" |
| 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 |