Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Sweetmorn, the 67th day of Bureaucracy 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

Oct  12*  Thanksgiving
Oct  12  National Gumbo Day
Oct  12  Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie died at the age of 70, 2011
Oct  12  Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962
Oct  12  Bahama Natives discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492
Oct  12  Khrushchev pounds his desk with shoe during a speech to the UN, 1960
Oct  12  Man O'War's last race, 1920
Oct  12  Native Americans discover Columbus of Europe lost on their shores, 1492
Oct  12*  Thanksgiving Day in Canada
Oct  12  Day of the Race in Argentina
Oct  12  Discovery Day in Bahamas
Oct  12  National Day in Equatorial Guinea and Spain
Oct  12  Our Lady Aparecida Day in Brazil
Oct  12  Pan American Day in Belize
Oct  12*  Health Sports Day in Japan
Oct  12  Ray Conniff dies after falling down and hitting his head, 2002
Oct  12  The Jimi Hendrix Experience is formed in London, 1966
Oct  12  Debian Bug#600000 reported by Cyril Brulebois, 2010
Oct  13  National No Bra Day
Oct  13  Lenny Bruce is born in New York City, 1925
Oct  13  Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC
Oct  13  Italy declares war on Germany, 1943
Oct  13  US Navy born, 1775, authorized by the Second Continental Congress
Oct  13  King Bhumibol's Memorial Day in Thailand
Oct  13  St. Edward's Day - Patron saint of England
Oct  13  Paul Simon is born in Newark, New Jersey, USA , 1941
Oct  13  Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) released, 2005
Oct  13  Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) released, 2011
Oct  14  Be Bald and Be Free Day
Oct  14  Dwight David Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States, born in
Denison,  Texas,  1890
Oct  14  William Penn born in London, 1644
Oct  14  British Computer Society founded, 1957
Oct  14  Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans, 1066
Oct  14  Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier, 1947
Oct  14  National Day in Yemen Arab Republic
Oct  14  Young People's Day in Zaire
Oct  14  Leonard Bernstein dies in New York, 1990
Oct  14  Winter Nights - festival celebrating the harvest

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