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.
Interesting Dates
| Apr | 17 | Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces, 1961 |
| Apr | 17 | An unexpected party |
| Apr | 17 | Burmese New Year in Burma |
| Apr | 17 | Bdale Garbee became Debian Project Leader, 2002 |
| Apr | 17 | Martin Michlmayr became Debian Project Leader, 2003 |
| Apr | 17 | Branden Robinson became Debian Project Leader, 2005 |
| Apr | 17 | Anthony Towns became Debian Project Leader, 2006 |
| Apr | 17 | Sam Hocevar became Debian Project Leader, 2007 |
| Apr | 17 | Steve McIntyre became Debian Project Leader, 2008 |
| Apr | 17 | Stefano Zacchiroli became Debian Project Leader, 2010 |
| Apr | 17 | Lucas Nussbaum became Debian Project Leader, 2013 |
| Apr | 17 | Adrian 'cmot' von Bidder passed away, 2011 |
| Apr | 17 | Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) released, 2014 |
| Apr | 17 | Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) released, 2017 |
| Apr | 18 | Einstein's Death, 1955 |
| Apr | 18 | First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934 |
| Apr | 18 | San Francisco earthquake, 1906 |
| Apr | 18 | Independence Day in Chile and Zimbabwe |
| Apr | 18* | Parshat Shmini |
| Apr | 18 | Yes breaks up after 13 years, 1981 |
| Apr | 18 | Paris' treaty instituting the CECA (an idea of R. Schuman), 1951 |
| Apr | 19 | National Garlic Day |
| Apr | 19 | Landing of the "33" in Uruguay |
| Apr | 19 | Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943 |
| Apr | 19 | Declaration of Independence in Venezuela |
| Apr | 19 | Republic Day in Sierra Leone |
| Apr | 19 | Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) released, 2007 |
| Apr | 20 | National Look Alike Day |
| Apr | 20 | Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971 |
| Apr | 20* | Patriot's Day in Maine & Massachusetts (3rd Monday) |
| Apr | 21 | Lyrid meteor shower |
| Apr | 21 | San Jacinto Day in Texas |
| Apr | 21 | Tiradentes in Brazil |
| Apr | 21* | Yom HaShoah |
| Apr | 21 | Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released, 2016 |
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_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 |