Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Boomtime, the 17th 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  16  Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979
Jan  16  Prohibition begins, 1920
Jan  16  Martyrs Day in Benin
Jan  17  Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, 1706
Jan  17  Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, January 8, 1982)
Jan  17  Passing of Gandalf
Jan  17  Led Zeppelin's first album is released, 1969
Jan  18  Grey whale migration, California
Jan  18  Revolution Day in Tunisia
Jan  18*  Parshat Shemot
Jan  19  Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston, 1809
Jan  19  Robert Edward Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia, 1807
Jan  19  Confederate Heroes Day in Texas
Jan  19  Ethiopian Epiphany in Ethiopia
Jan  19  Nameday of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus
Jan  19*  Lee-Jackson Day in Virginia (3rd Monday)
Jan  19*  Robert E. Lee's Birthday in Alabama & Mississippi (3rd Monday)
Jan  19*  Martin Luther King Day in New York (3rd Monday)
Jan  19  Janis Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas, 1943
Jan  20  National Cheese Lover’s Day
Jan  20  George Burns born, 1898
Jan  20  St. Agnes Eve (Ah, bitter chill it was...)
Jan  20  Army Day in Mali
Jan  20  National Heroes Day in Guinea-Bissau
Jan  20  Midvintersblot

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