Cliffe

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.

• Genealogy / Family Tree
• The Naughty Knotty Page
• Free Laundry Symbols Chart
• The CliffeE-Store

Interesting Dates

Dec	21*	Winter Solstice
Dec	21	Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804
Dec	21	Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in less than 80 days
Dec	21	Women gain the right to vote in South Australia, 1894
Dec	21	Women gain the right to hold political office in South Australia, 1894
Dec	21	Frank Zappa is born in Baltimore, 1940
Dec	21	Festival of Beiwe / Nertha / Alban Athuan
Dec	21	Yule (Norse for "wheel") - Germanic 12-day feast
Dec	22	National Date Nut Bread Day
Dec	22	Giacomo Puccini born, 1858
Dec	23	Joseph Smith born, 1805
Dec	23	Emperor's Birthday in Japan
Dec	23	Victory Day in Egypt
Dec	23	First G&S collaboration, Thespis, 1871
Dec	23	Joe Strummer (born John Mellor) dies in Broomfield, England, 2002

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_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