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

Feb	13	Richard Wagner dies in Venice, Italy, 1883
Feb	14	St. Valentine's Day
Feb	14	First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978
Feb	14	Bombing of Dresden, 1945
Feb	14	Festival of Vali
Feb	14	Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias ``lenny'' released, 2009
Feb	15	National Flag of Canada Day
Feb	15	Singles Awareness Day
Feb	15	Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy, 1564
Feb	15	Susan B. Anthony born, 1820
Feb	15	ENIAC demonstrated, 1946
Feb	15	Chicago Seven convicted, 1970
Feb	15*	Parshat Yitro
Feb	16*	Family Day
Feb	16	Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry
Feb	16	Nylon patented, 1937
Feb	16	Stephen Decatur burns US frigate in Tripoli, 1804
Feb	17	National Random Acts of Kindness Day
Feb	17	Federick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone
Feb	17	Marion Anderson born, 1902
Feb	17	T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874
Feb	17*	Shrove Tuesday / Mardi Gras (day before Ash Wednesday)
Feb	17	Death of Boromir
Feb	17	Jazz great Thelonius Monk dies in Englewood, New Jersey, 1982

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