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
| Jul | 31 | National Avocado Day |
| Jul | 31* | System Administrator Appreciation Day |
| Jul | 31 | Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport @ Idlewild Field, 1948, |
| later | JFK | |
| Jul | 31 | Revolution Day in Congo |
| Aug | 01 | Herman Melville born, 1819 |
| Aug | 01 | Lughnasa; Feast of the god Lugh, a 30 day Celtic feast centers on |
| this | day | |
| Aug | 01 | Discovery Day in Trinidad and Tobago |
| Aug | 01 | Emancipation Day in Granada |
| Aug | 01 | Founding of Asuncion in Paraguay |
| Aug | 01 | Freedom Day in Guyana |
| Aug | 01 | National Day in Switzerland |
| Aug | 01 | National Holidays (5 days) in El Salvador |
| Aug | 01 | Parent's Day in Zaire |
| Aug | 01* | Parshat Vaetchanan |
| Aug | 01 | The Concert for Bangla Desh takes place at Madison Square Garden, 1971 |
| Aug | 01 | Lugnasad / Lughnasada / Lunasa - Gaelic summer "games of Lug" (sun-god) |
| Aug | 02 | National Coloring Book Day |
| Aug | 02 | Our Lady of Los Angeles in Costa Rica |
| Aug | 02 | Lady Godiva Day |
| Aug | 03* | August Civic Holiday |
| Aug | 03 | National Grab Some Nuts Day |
| Aug | 03 | Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966 |
| Aug | 03 | Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492 |
| Aug | 03 | USS Nautilus crosses under north polar ice cap, 1958 |
| Aug | 03 | Funeral of King Theoden |
| Aug | 03 | Independence Day in Jamaica and Niger |
| Aug | 03 | Massacre of the Pidjiguiti in Guinea-Bissau |
| Aug | 03 | Memorial Day of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus |
| Aug | 04 | National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day |
| Aug | 04 | Axe murder of Andrew and Abbey Borden, 1892 |
| Aug | 04 | Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964 |
| Aug | 04 | Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I, 1914 |
| Aug | 04 | Freedom Day in Guyana |
| Aug | 04 | John Lennon points out that "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus", 1966 |
| Aug | 04 | Loch mo Naire |
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 |