Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Boomtime, the 3rd day of Bureaucracy 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

Aug  09  Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969
Aug  09  Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC
Aug  09  US/Canada border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842
Aug  09  Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945
Aug  09  Singapore secedes from Malaysia, 1965
Aug  09  National Day in Singapore
Aug  09  National Women's Day in South Africa
Aug  10  National S’mores Day
Aug  10  Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833
Aug  10  US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977
Aug  10  Independence Day in Ecuador
Aug  10  Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1947
Aug  10  Puck Faire
Aug  11  Dog days end
Aug  11  France Ends War in Indochina, 1954
Aug  11  Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)
Aug  11  Heroes Day (2 days) in Zimbabwe
Aug  11  Independence Day in Chad
Aug  11  King Hussein's Accession to the Throne in Jordan

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