Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 41st day of Discord 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

Apr  23  Hank Aaron hits his first home run, 1954
Apr  23  Crowning of King Ellesar
Apr  23  St. George's Day - Patron Saint of England
Apr  23  Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) released, 2009
Apr  23  Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) released, 2015
Apr  24  National Pigs in a Blanket Day
Apr  24  Victory Day in Togo
Apr  24  European Monetary System founded, 1972
Apr  24  Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) released, 2008
Apr  25  National Hug a Plumber Day
Apr  25  Anniversary of the Revolution in Portugal
Apr  25  Anzac Day, observed in Australia, New Zealand, Tonga and Western Samoa
Apr  25  Liberation Day in Italy
Apr  25  National Flag Day in Swaziland
Apr  25*  Parshat Tazria-Metzora
Apr  25  Blues guitarist Albert King is born, 1925
Apr  25  Ella Fitzgerald born, 1918
Apr  25  Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) released, 2013

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