Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Boomtime, the 40th day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3191

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

Nov  27  Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895
Nov  27  Friction match invented, England, 1826
Nov  27  Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in NW Massachusetts
Nov  27  Jimi Hendrix (Johnny Allen Hendrix) is born in Seattle, 1942
Nov  28  Independence Day in Albania and Mauritania
Nov  28  Independence from Spain in Panama
Nov  28  Proclamation of the Republic in Chad
Nov  28*  Parshat Vayetzei
Nov  29  John Mayall is born in Cheshire, England, 1933
Nov  29  King Tut's tomb opened, 1922
Nov  29  Day of the Republic (2 days) in Yugoslavia
Nov  29  Goodwill Day in Liberia
Nov  29  Liberation Day in Albania
Nov  29  National Day in Burma
Nov  29  Pau Casals born in Vendrell, 1876
Nov  29  George Harrison dies at 13:30 in L.A., 2001

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