Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 24th day of Chaos 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

Jan  23  National Pie Day
Jan  23  Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory
Jan  23  Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899
Jan  23  John Hancock born, 1737
Jan  23  Joseph Hewes born, 1730
Jan  23  Samuel Barber died, 1981
Jan  23  Feast of St. Ildefonsus
Jan  23  US National Handwriting Day
Jan  24  John Belushi is born in Chicago, 1949
Jan  24  DG Nova introduced, 1969
Jan  24  Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922
Jan  24  Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848
Jan  24  Economic Liberation Day in Togo
Jan  24  Warren Zevon is born in Chicago, 1947
Jan  25  Robert Burns born, 1759
Jan  25  Virginia Woolf born, 1882
Jan  25  W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874
Jan  25  First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958
Jan  25*  Parshat Vaera
Jan  25  Bob Dylan plays the second "Hurricane" benefit, in the Astrodome, 1978
Jan  25  Old Disting Feast
Jan  26  EDVAC demonstrated, 1952
Jan  26  Sydney, New South Wales settled, 1788
Jan  26  Republic Day in India
Jan  26  Australia Day in Australia
Jan  27  National Chocolate Cake Day
Jan  27  Samuel Gompers born, 1850
Jan  27  Grissom, White and Chaffe burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967
Jan  27  Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973
Jan  27  Bobby "Blue" Bland (Robert Calvin Bland) is born in Tennessee, 1930
Jan  27  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in Salzburg, Austria, 1756
Jan  27  Giuseppe Verdi dies in Milan, Italy, 1901
Jan  27*  Upelly - old fire festival

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