Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Setting Orange, the 61st 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  06  National Noodle Day
Oct  06  First GPSS manual published, 1961
Oct  06  Antioch College is the first public school to admit men and women, 1853
Oct  06  Egyptian President Anwar es-Sadat is assassinated in Cairo, 1981
Oct  06  Israel is attacked by the alliance of Egypt and Syria, 1973
Oct  06  National Sports Day in Lesotho
Oct  06*  Hol hamoed Sukkot
Oct  07  Foundation of the German Democratic Republic (GDR or DDR), 1949
Oct  07  Georgia Tech. beats Cumberland Univ. 222-0, 1916
Oct  07  Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges, 1977
Oct  07  Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979
Oct  07  Police stop Wilbur Mills car, Fanne Fox jumps into water, 1974
Oct  07  National Heroes Day in Jamaica
Oct  07*  Hol hamoed Sukkot
Oct  07  First Bandstand (later, American Bandstand) broadcast, 1957
Oct  08  National Pierogi Day
Oct  08  First VisiCalc prototype, 1978
Oct  08  Great Chicago Fire, 1871
Oct  08  Battle of Agamos in Peru
Oct  08  Constitution Day in former USSR
Oct  08*  Fiji Day
Oct  08*  Hol hamoed Sukkot
Oct  08  Day of Remembrance for Erik the Red

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