Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Sweetmorn, the 28th 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

Apr  10  Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry born, 1794
Apr  10  William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army
Apr  10*  Hol hamoed Pesach
Apr  10  Paul McCartney announces that he's quitting the Beatles, 1970
Apr  11  National Heroes Day in Costa Rica
Apr  11*  Hol hamoed Pesach
Apr  12  Confederate troops fire first shots of Civil War at Ft Sumter, 1861
Apr  12  Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981
Apr  12  Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961
Apr  12*  Hol hamoed Pesach
Apr  13  National Blame Someone Else Day
Apr  13  Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States, born Shadwell
Plantation,  Albemarle  County, Virginia, 1743
Apr  13  Laotian New Year (3 days) in Laos
Apr  13  National Day in Chad
Apr  13  Songkran Day in Thailand
Apr  13*  Hol hamoed Pesach
Apr  14  Christiaan Huygens born, 1629, physicist & astronomer;
discovered  Saturn's  rings
Apr  14  US President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, 1865
Apr  14  Titanic hits iceberg and sinks, 1912
Apr  14  Day of the Americas in Honduras
Apr  14*  Hol hamoed Pesach
Apr  14  George Friedrich Handel dies in London, England, 1759
Apr  14  Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow) is born, 1945

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