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 | 30 | John Adams, 2nd President of the United States, born Quincy, |
| Massachusetts | 1735. | |
| Oct | 30 | Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast, 1938 |
| Oct | 30 | Grace Slick is born in Chicago, 1939 |
| Oct | 30 | Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) released, 2008 |
| Oct | 31 | All Hallows' Eve (Halloween) |
| Oct | 31 | National Knock-Knock Jokes Day |
| Oct | 31 | Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887 |
| Oct | 31 | Dale Evans born, 1912 |
| Oct | 31 | Luther nails 95 Theses to door of Castle Church, Wittenberg, 1517 |
| Oct | 31 | All Hallows Eve ("Halloween") |
| Oct | 31 | Nevada Day in Nevada |
| Oct | 31* | Parshat Lech-Lecha |
| Oct | 31 | Hallowmas / Allhallowmas / Allhallows |
| Nov | 01* | Daylight Saving Time ends; clocks move back (1st Sunday in November) |
| Nov | 01 | National Cook For Your Pets Day |
| Nov | 01 | All Saints' Day |
| Nov | 01 | Austria-Hungary become two separate nations, 1918 |
| Nov | 01 | Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Truman at the Blair House, 1950 |
| Nov | 01 | All Saints Day |
| Nov | 01 | Samhain; Beginning of the Celtic year and most important holiday. |
| Nov | 01 | Samhain - Celtic feast of departing Sun & new year |
| Nov | 02 | Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734 |
| Nov | 02 | Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940 |
| Nov | 02 | Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight, 1783 |
| Nov | 02 | All Souls Day |
| Nov | 02 | Memorial Day in Ecuador |
| Nov | 02 | Jimi Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland" enters US charts at #1, 1968 |
| Nov | 02 | Keith Emerson is born, 1944 |
| Nov | 03 | John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, born 1718 |
| Nov | 03 | Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837 |
| Nov | 03 | Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954 |
| Nov | 03 | Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing space dog Laika |
| Nov | 03 | Culture Day in Japan |
| Nov | 03 | Independence from Columbia in Panama |
| Nov | 03 | Independence of Cuenca in Ecuador |
| Nov | 03 | Thanksgiving Day in Liberia |
| Nov | 03 | James Taylor and Carly Simon are married in Manhattan, 1972 |
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 |