Cliffe

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.

• Genealogy / Family Tree
• The Naughty Knotty Page
• Free Laundry Symbols Chart
• The CliffeE-Store

Interesting Dates

Apr	07	National No Housework Day
Apr	07	IBM announces System/360, 1964
Apr	07	Alewives run, Cape Cod
Apr	08	Buddha born, 563 BC
Apr	08	David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician
Apr	08	Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin meet in Encounter Bay, 1802
Apr	08	Fast and Prayer Day in Liberia
Apr	08	Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias ``etch'' released, 2007
Apr	08	Treaty on the fusion between the EEC, the CECA and the Euratom, 1965
Apr	08	Meeting of the Ministers of Finances on the European Currency, 1995
Apr	08	Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) released, 2005
Apr	09	National Name Yourself Day
Apr	09	Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer
Apr	09	J. Presper Eckert born, 1919
Apr	09	ENIAC Project begun, 1943
Apr	09	Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, 1865
Apr	09	Martyrs Day in Tunisia
Apr	09*	Pesach
Apr	09	Paul Robeson born, 1898

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_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