Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.
Today is Setting Orange, the 10th day of Chaos 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.
| Jan | 09 | National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day |
| Jan | 09 | Plough Monday |
| Jan | 09 | Fellowship reaches Lorien |
| Jan | 09 | Day of the Martyrs in Panama |
| Jan | 09 | James Patrick Page (Led Zeppelin) is born in Middlesex, England, 1945 |
| Jan | 10 | Ethan Allen born, 1738 |
| Jan | 10 | First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960 |
| Jan | 10 | First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London, 1946 |
| Jan | 10 | Thomas Paine's Common Sense published, 1776 |
| Jan | 10 | Blues guitarist Howlin' Wolf dies in Chicago, 1976 |
| Jan | 10 | Jim Croce is born in Philadelphia, 1943 |
| Jan | 10 | Pat Benatar is born in Long Island, 1952 |
| Jan | 10 | Rod Stewart is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1945 |
| Jan | 10 | Geraints Day |
| Jan | 11 | National Step in the Puddle and Splash Your Friends Day |
| Jan | 11 | Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757? |
| Jan | 11 | Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Albania |
| Jan | 11 | De Hostos' Birthday in Puerto Rico |
| Jan | 11 | Milk delivered in bottles for first time, 1878 |
| Jan | 11 | Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal |
| Jan | 11 | Surgeon General condemned cigarettes, 1964 |
| Jan | 11 | The Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1963 |
| Jan | 11 | Armed Forces Day in Liberia |
| Jan | 11* | Parshat Vayechi |
| Jan | 12 | Kiss a Ginger Day |
| Jan | 12 | "Long" John Baldry is born in London, 1941 |
| Jan | 12 | Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania |
| Jan | 12* | Adults Day in Japan |
| Jan | 13 | National Rubber Ducky Day |
| Jan | 13 | Horatio Alger born, 1834 |
| Jan | 13 | Sophie Tucker born, 1884 |
| Jan | 13 | Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws |
| Jan | 13 | National Liberation Day in Togo |
| Jan | 13 | Eric Clapton plays the "Rainbow Concert" in London, 1973 |
| Jan | 13 | Midvintersblot |
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 |