Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Boomtime, the 64th 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.

Interesting Dates

May  16  First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963
May  16  Discovery Day in Cayman Islands
May  16*  Parshat Behar-Bechukotai
May  17  24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982
May  17  Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974
May  17  Constitution Day in Nauru and Norway
May  18*  Victoria Day (Monday on or immediately before May 24)
May  18  National Bike to Work Day (Third Friday in May)
May  18  Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) born in Wadowice, Poland, 1920
May  18  Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay
May  18  Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804
May  18  Flag Day in Haiti
May  18  Prayer Day in Denmark
May  18*  Memorial Day in Michigan (3rd Monday)
May  18  Gustav Mahler dies in Vienna, Austria, 1911
May  18  Rick Wakeman is born in West London, England, 1949
May  18  Festival of the Horned God Cennunos

Tech

Technical notes and projects

Poor Man's Splunk Sample BASH script

Mouse cursor disappears using SynergyMake 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 lagCreate /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