Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Sweetmorn, the 73rd 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

May  25  National Wine Day
May  25*  Whitmonday
May  25  Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK, 1980
May  25  Successful test of the limelight in Purfleet, England, 1830
May  25  African Freedom Day in Zimbabwe
May  25  African Liberation Day in Chad, Mauritania and Zambia
May  25  Anniversary of the Revolution of 1810 in Argentina
May  25  Independence Day in Jordan
May  25  Memorial Day in New Mexico & Puerto Rico
May  25  Revolution in the Sudan in Libyan Arab Republic
May  25*  Bank Holiday in UK
May  25  International Towel Day, in honour of Douglas N. Adams
May  26  Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924
May  26  Al Jolson born, 1886
May  27  Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911
May  27  First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958
May  27  Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937
May  27  Afghanistan attains sovereignty, 1921
May  27  European Community of Defense signed in Paris, 1952

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