Cliffe.ca

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.

Sep	24	F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896
Sep	24	Anniversary of the Third Republic in Ghana
Sep	24	Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau
Sep	24	National Day in Saudi Arabia
Sep	24	Our Lady of Mercedes in Dominican Republic
Sep	24	Republic Day in Trinidad and Tobago
Sep	24	Heritage Day in South Africa
Sep	24	Debian Bug#500000 reported by Nobuhiro Iwamatsu, 2008
Sep	25	Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on US Supreme Court, 1981
Sep	25	Army Day in Mozambique
Sep	25	Referendum Day in Rwanda
Sep	25	John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) dies of alcohol poisoning, 1980
Sep	26	Johnny Appleseed born, 1774
Sep	26	T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis, 1888
Sep	26	National Day in Maldives
Sep	26	Revolution Anniversary Day in Yemen
Sep	26*	Parshat Ha'Azinu
Sep	26	Bela Bartok dies in New York, 1945
Sep	26	George Gershwin is born in Brooklyn, NY, 1898
Sep	26	Bureflux (50th of the Season of Bureaucracy)

Tech

Technical notes and projects

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