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

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'

Interesting Dates

Nov	09	Carl Sagan born, 1934
Nov	09	Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern Canada, 1965
Nov	09	Giant panda discovered (?!), China, 1927
Nov	09	Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim, Jane Kelly, 1888
Nov	09	Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League, 1921
Nov	09	Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration, 1933
Nov	09	The first issue of "Rolling Stone" is published, 1967
Nov	10	Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany, 1483
Nov	10	Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75, 1982
Nov	10	41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstrations near White House, 1917
Nov	10	Cpt. Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged, 1865
Nov	10	Henry Stanley asks David Livingstone, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?", 1871
Nov	10	King's Birthday in Bhutan
Nov	10	Greg Lake is born in Bournemouth, England, 1948
Nov	11	Remembrance Day
Nov	11	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis, 1922
Nov	11	Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889
Nov	11	Angola gains independence from Portugal, 1975
Nov	11	Independence Day in Angola
Nov	11	Independence of Cartagena in Colombia
Nov	11	Remembrance Day in Canada
Nov	11	Republic Day in Maldives

Terminology Demo	Synergy on iPad
Informacast-Edit Audio	Informacast-Create Broadcast
Informacast-Bell Schedule	E17 Window Manager demo -old