Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.
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.
| Feb | 20 | Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer |
| Feb | 20 | John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962 |
| Feb | 20 | Meriadoc & Pippin meet Treebeard |
| Feb | 20 | J. Geils (J. Geils Band) is born, 1946 |
| Feb | 20 | Yes sells out Madison Square Garden...without advertising, 1974 |
| Feb | 21 | Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass |
| Feb | 21 | Battle of Verdun begins, 1916 1M casualties |
| Feb | 21 | First telephone directory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1878 |
| Feb | 21 | Malcom X shot to death in Harlem, 1965 |
| Feb | 22 | National Cook a Sweet Potato Day |
| Feb | 22 | George Washington born, 1732 |
| Feb | 22 | Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun |
| Feb | 22 | Passing of King Ellesar |
| Feb | 22* | Parshat Mishpatim |
| Feb | 23 | W.E.B. DuBois born, 1868 |
| Feb | 23 | Lt. Calley confesses, implicates Cpt. Medina, 1971 |
| Feb | 23 | Republic Day in Guyana |
| Feb | 23 | George Friedrich Handel is born in Halle on the Saale, Germany, 1685 |
| Feb | 23 | Johnny Winter is born in Leland, Mississippi, 1944 |
| Feb | 24 | Winslow Homer born, 1836 |
| Feb | 24 | Steve Jobs born, 1955 |
| Feb | 24 | Impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson begin, 1868 |
| Feb | 24 | Ents destroy Isengard |
| Feb | 24 | Gregorian Calendar Day |
| Feb | 24 | SPI applies to register the term OpenSource, 1998 |
Technical notes and projects
Poor Man's Splunk Sample BASH script
| Mouse cursor disappears using Synergy | Make sure you are using X11 and not Wayland echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPEDisable Wayland in gdm by editting /etc/gdm3/custom.conf[daemon] |
| Correct Ubuntu 16.04 Intel driver lag | Create /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf and enterSection "Device" |
| 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 |