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

Aug	31	269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983
Aug	31	Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888
Aug	31	Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926
Aug	31	Federation of Malaya gains independence from Great Britain, 1957
Aug	31*	Bank Holiday in England and Wales
Aug	31	Independence Day (Merdeka) in Malaysia
Aug	31	Independence Day in Trinidad and Tobago
Aug	31	Pashtunistan Day in Afghanistan
Sep	01	Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess Match, 1972
Sep	01	Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself 'Emperor Norton I', 1859
Sep	01	Army Day in Chile
Sep	02	Great Britain adopts Gregorian Calendar, 1752
Sep	02	Japan signs unconditional surrender on US battleship `Missouri', 1945

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