Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Boomtime, the 15th day of The Aftermath 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

Nov  02  Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734
Nov  02  Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London, 1940
Nov  02  Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight, 1783
Nov  02  All Souls Day
Nov  02  Memorial Day in Ecuador
Nov  02  Jimi Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland" enters US charts at #1, 1968
Nov  02  Keith Emerson is born, 1944
Nov  03  John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, born 1718
Nov  03  Beef rises to 3 cents a pound, IL, 1837
Nov  03  Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1954
Nov  03  Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing space dog Laika
Nov  03  Culture Day in Japan
Nov  03  Independence from Columbia in Panama
Nov  03  Independence of Cuenca in Ecuador
Nov  03  Thanksgiving Day in Liberia
Nov  03  James Taylor and Carly Simon are married in Manhattan, 1972
Nov  04  National Candy Day
Nov  04  King William III of Orange born, 1650
Nov  04  UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952
Nov  04  Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel in Teheran, 1979
Nov  04  Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary, 1956
Nov  04  Flag Day in Panama
Nov  04  Will Rogers Day, USA
Nov  04  Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy dies in Leipzig, Germany, 1847

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