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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.

Stag and Doe Prizes

Interesting Dates

Jul  07  P.T. Barnum dies, 1891
Jul  07  First radio broadcast of "Dragnet", 1949
Jul  07  Terrorists detonate four bombs on London public transport, 2005
Jul  07  Anniversary of the P.U.N. in Equatorial Guinea
Jul  07  National Day in Malawi
Jul  07  Saba Saba Day in Tanzania
Jul  07  Gustav Mahler is born in Kalischt, Bohemia, 1860
Jul  07  Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) born in Liverpool, England, 1940
Jul  08  Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838
Jul  08  Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877
Jul  08  CDC incorporated, 1957
Jul  08  First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
Jul  08  Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835
Jul  09  10-hour working day set by law, NH, 1847
Jul  09  Independence Day in Argentina
Jul  09*  Tzom Tammuz

Genealogy

Family Tree

Tech

Technical notes and projects

The Naughty Knotty Page

Free Laundry Symbols Chart

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

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