Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 70th 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

Oct  15  Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881
Oct  15  First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published, 1956
Oct  15  First draft card burned, 1965
Oct  15  Evacuation Day in Tunisia
Oct  16  Noah Webster born, 1758
Oct  16  Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin, 1854
Oct  16  Dr. Jonathan B. Postel dies at age 55, 1998
Oct  16  Boromir reaches Rivendell
Oct  16  National Boss Day, USA
Oct  16  Bob Weir (Grateful Dead) is born in San Francisco, 1947
Oct  17  Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S.
Oct  17  Council of Elrond
Oct  17  Dessaline's Death Anniversary in Haiti
Oct  17  Heroes Day in Jamaica
Oct  17  Mother's Day in Malawi
Oct  17*  Parshat Bereshit
Oct  17  "Hair" opens at New York's Public Theater, 1967
Oct  17  Frederic Chopin dies in Paris, France, 1849
Oct  17  Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) released, 2013

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