Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Sweetmorn, the 33rd day of Discord 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

Apr  15  Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452
Apr  15  US President Abraham Lincoln dies, 1865
Apr  15  Ray Kroc opens first McDonalds in Des Plaines, IL, 1955
Apr  15  Bengali New Year in Bangladesh
Apr  15*  Pesach VII
Apr  16  National Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day
Apr  16  Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889
Apr  16  De Diego's Birthday celebrated in Puerto Rico
Apr  16  Holy Week (5 days) in Venezuela
Apr  16  Tourist Week (5 days) in Uruguay
Apr  17  Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces, 1961
Apr  17  An unexpected party
Apr  17  Burmese New Year in Burma
Apr  17  Bdale Garbee became Debian Project Leader, 2002
Apr  17  Martin Michlmayr became Debian Project Leader, 2003
Apr  17  Branden Robinson became Debian Project Leader, 2005
Apr  17  Anthony Towns became Debian Project Leader, 2006
Apr  17  Sam Hocevar became Debian Project Leader, 2007
Apr  17  Steve McIntyre became Debian Project Leader, 2008
Apr  17  Stefano Zacchiroli became Debian Project Leader, 2010
Apr  17  Lucas Nussbaum became Debian Project Leader, 2013
Apr  17  Adrian 'cmot' von Bidder passed away, 2011
Apr  17  Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) released, 2014
Apr  17  Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) released, 2017

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