Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.
Today is Setting Orange, the 42nd 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.
| Apr | 24 | National Pigs in a Blanket Day |
| Apr | 24 | Victory Day in Togo |
| Apr | 24 | European Monetary System founded, 1972 |
| Apr | 24 | Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) released, 2008 |
| Apr | 25 | National Hug a Plumber Day |
| Apr | 25 | Anniversary of the Revolution in Portugal |
| Apr | 25 | Anzac Day, observed in Australia, New Zealand, Tonga and Western Samoa |
| Apr | 25 | Liberation Day in Italy |
| Apr | 25 | National Flag Day in Swaziland |
| Apr | 25* | Parshat Tazria-Metzora |
| Apr | 25 | Blues guitarist Albert King is born, 1925 |
| Apr | 25 | Ella Fitzgerald born, 1918 |
| Apr | 25 | Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) released, 2013 |
| Apr | 26 | William Shakespeare baptized in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564, |
| birthdate | unknown | |
| Apr | 26 | Confederate Memorial Day in Florida & Georgia |
| Apr | 26 | Union Day in Tanzania |
| Apr | 26 | Carol Burnett born in San Antonio, Texas, 1933 |
| Apr | 26 | Debian Social Contract v1.1 ratified, 2004 |
| Apr | 26 | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) released, 2012 |
| Apr | 26 | Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) released, 2018 |
| Apr | 27 | Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist |
| Apr | 27 | Samuel Morse born, 1791, the inventor of the single wire telegraph |
| Apr | 27 | Magellan killed in Philippines, 1521 |
| Apr | 27 | Independence Day in Togo |
| Apr | 27 | King's Birthday in the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles |
| Apr | 27* | Arbor Day in Wyoming (last Monday) |
| Apr | 27* | Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama & Mississippi (last Monday) |
| Apr | 27 | Freedom Day in South Africa |
| Apr | 28 | National Superhero Day |
| Apr | 28 | James Monroe, 5th President of the United States, born in Westmoreland |
| County, | Viriginia, | 1758 |
| Apr | 28 | Zilog Z-80 introduced, 1976 |
| Apr | 28* | Yom HaZikaron |
| Apr | 28 | Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) released, 2011 |
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 |