Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.
Today is Boomtime, the 45th day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3191
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.
| Dec | 02 | National Holiday in United Arab Emirates |
| Dec | 03 | First neon light display, Paris, 1910 |
| Dec | 03 | First successful human heart transplant led by Dr. Barnard, 1967 |
| Dec | 03 | The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert, 1971 |
| Dec | 03 | National Holiday in Laos |
| Dec | 03 | The ECU becomes the euro (€), 1995 |
| Dec | 04 | National Sock Day |
| Dec | 04 | Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976 |
| Dec | 04 | Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783 |
| Dec | 04 | Frank Zappa dies in his Laurel Canyon home shortly before 18:00, 1993 |
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 |