About

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.

Stag and Doe Prizes

Interesting Dates

Sep  12  German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome, 1943
Sep  12  Germany annexes Sudetenland, 1938
Sep  12  Jesse Owens born, 1913
Sep  12  Amilcar Cabral's Birthday in Guinea-Bissau
Sep  12  Defender's Day in Maryland
Sep  12  Revolution Day in Ethiopia
Sep  12*  Parshat Nitzavim-Vayeilech
Sep  13  58 °C (136.4 °F) measured at el Azizia, Libya, 1922
Sep  13  British defeat the French at the Plains of Abraham, just outside the walls of Quebec City, 1759
Sep  13  Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122
Sep  13  Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943
Sep  13  Walter Reed born, 1851
Sep  13  Barry Day commemorates the death of Commodore John Barry, USA
Sep  14  Francis Scott Key writes words to "Star Spangled Banner", 1814
Sep  14  Frodo & Bilbo's birthday
Sep  14  Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778
Sep  14  Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629
Sep  14  The US Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940
Sep  14  Battle of San Jacinto in Nicaragua

Genealogy

Family Tree

Tech

Technical notes and projects

The Naughty Knotty Page

Free Laundry Symbols Chart

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

Terminology Demo
Synergy on iPad
Informacast-Edit Audio
Informacast-Create Broadcast Informacast-Bell Schedule E17 Window Manager demo -old

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