Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Sweetmorn, the 43rd day of Discord 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

Apr  25  National Hug a Plumber Day
Apr  25  Anniversary of the Revolution in Portugal
Apr  25  Anzac Day, observed in Australia, New Zealand, Tonga and Western Samoa
Apr  25  Liberation Day in Italy
Apr  25  National Flag Day in Swaziland
Apr  25*  Parshat Tazria-Metzora
Apr  25  Blues guitarist Albert King is born, 1925
Apr  25  Ella Fitzgerald born, 1918
Apr  25  Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) released, 2013
Apr  26  William Shakespeare baptized in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564,
birthdate  unknown 
Apr  26  Confederate Memorial Day in Florida & Georgia
Apr  26  Union Day in Tanzania
Apr  26  Carol Burnett born in San Antonio, Texas, 1933
Apr  26  Debian Social Contract v1.1 ratified, 2004
Apr  26  Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) released, 2012
Apr  26  Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) released, 2018
Apr  27  Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist
Apr  27  Samuel Morse born, 1791, the inventor of the single wire telegraph
Apr  27  Magellan killed in Philippines, 1521
Apr  27  Independence Day in Togo
Apr  27  King's Birthday in the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles
Apr  27*  Arbor Day in Wyoming (last Monday)
Apr  27*  Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama & Mississippi (last Monday)
Apr  27  Freedom Day in South Africa

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