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

Sep	27	National Crush a Can Day
Sep	27	Thomas Nast born, 1840
Sep	27	The first passenger was hauled in a locomotive in England, 1825
Sep	27	Feast of Finding the True Cross in Ethiopia
Sep	27*	Erev Yom Kippur
Sep	28	Michelangelo Buonarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1573
Sep	28	Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106BC
Sep	28	Seymour Cray born, 1925
Sep	28	"Pilgrim's Progress" published, 1678
Sep	28	A Greek soldier runs 26+ miles after the Persian defeat at Marathon,
490BC
Sep	28	Frodo wounded at Weathertop
Sep	28	Confucius' Day in Taiwan
Sep	28*	Yom Kippur
Sep	29	National Coffee Day
Sep	29	Gene Autry born, 1907
Sep	29	Michaelmas
Sep	29	Battle of Boqueron in Paraguay

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