Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Boomtime, the 19th 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  01  April Fool's Day
Apr  01  National Sourdough Bread Day
Apr  01  Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.)
Apr  01  People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc. born this day.
Apr  01  Youth Day in Benin
Apr  01  Sergej Rachmaninow is born in Oneg, Russia, 1873
Apr  01  Ben Collins became Debian Project Leader, 2001
Apr  02  National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day
Apr  02  Hans Christian Andersen born, 1805, fairy tale author
Apr  02  Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) died in Vatican, 2005
Apr  02*  Maundy Thursday (3 days before Easter)
Apr  02  Malvinas Day in Argentina
Apr  02  Pascua Florida Day in Florida
Apr  02  Marvin Gaye is born in Washington, D.C., 1939
Apr  03*  Good Friday (Statutory holiday)
Apr  03  National Find a Rainbow Day
Apr  03  Washington Irving born, 1783
Apr  03*  Good Friday (2 days before Easter)
Apr  03  IBM 701 introduced, 1953

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