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.

Mar	20*	Vernal Equinox
Mar	20	National Ravioli Day
Mar	20	Radio Caroline, the original British pirate radio station, sinks, 1980
Mar	20	Independence Day in Tunisia
Mar	20	Youth Day in Oklahoma
Mar	20*	Vernal Equinox in Japan
Mar	20	Festival of Iduna
Mar	21	NetBSD project born, 1993
Mar	21	Afghan New Year in Afghanistan
Mar	21	Juarez' Birthday in Mexico
Mar	21*	Vernal Equinox in Japan
Mar	21	Human Rights Day in South Africa
Mar	21*	Parshat Vayakhel-Pekudei
Mar	21	Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Eisenach, Germany, 1685
Mar	21	Ostara / Eostre (Saxon goddess of Spring)
Mar	21	W. Churchill proposes a European Council, 1943
Mar	22	Abolition Day in Puerto Rico
Mar	22	Ten Years After plays their last concert, 1974
Mar	23	Pakistan Day in Pakistan
Mar	24	National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day
Mar	24	Harry Houdini born, 1874
Mar	24	Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900

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