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 | 21 | Christopher Robin Milne born, 1920 |
| Aug | 21 | Winnie-the-Pooh (Edward Bear) born (given to Christopher Robin |
| Milne), | 1921 | |
| Aug | 21* | Admission Day in Hawaii, 1959 (3rd Friday) |
| Aug | 21 | Joe Strummer (The Clash), born John Mellor in Ankara, Turkey, 1952 |
| Aug | 22 | CDC 6600 introduced, 1963 |
| Aug | 22 | Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets |
| Aug | 22 | Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963 |
| Aug | 22 | St. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565 |
| Aug | 22* | Parshat Shoftim |
| Aug | 23 | Gene Kelly born, 1912 |
| Aug | 23 | DEC founded, 1957 |
| Aug | 23 | Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927 |
| Aug | 23 | Liberation Days (2 days) in Romania |
| Aug | 23 | Keith Moon is born in London, England, 1946 |
| Aug | 23 | Feast of Ilmatar |
| Aug | 24 | National Waffle Day |
| Aug | 24 | "Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969 |
| Aug | 24 | -126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960 |
| Aug | 24 | British troops burn Washington, 1814 |
| Aug | 24 | National Flag Day in Liberia |
| Aug | 25 | National Kiss and Make Up Day |
| Aug | 25 | Gen. De Gaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944 |
| Aug | 25 | Constitution Day in Paraguay |
| Aug | 25 | Independence Day in Uruguay |
| Aug | 25 | Leonard Bernstein is born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1918 |
Tech
Technical notes and projects
Poor Man's Splunk Sample BASH script
| Mouse cursor disappears using Synergy | Make sure you are using X11 and not Wayland echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPEDisable Wayland in gdm by editting /etc/gdm3/custom.conf[daemon] |
| Correct Ubuntu 16.04 Intel driver lag | Create /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf and enterSection "Device" |
| 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 |