Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Pungenday, the 35th 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  17  Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Castro forces, 1961
Apr  17  An unexpected party
Apr  17  Burmese New Year in Burma
Apr  17  Bdale Garbee became Debian Project Leader, 2002
Apr  17  Martin Michlmayr became Debian Project Leader, 2003
Apr  17  Branden Robinson became Debian Project Leader, 2005
Apr  17  Anthony Towns became Debian Project Leader, 2006
Apr  17  Sam Hocevar became Debian Project Leader, 2007
Apr  17  Steve McIntyre became Debian Project Leader, 2008
Apr  17  Stefano Zacchiroli became Debian Project Leader, 2010
Apr  17  Lucas Nussbaum became Debian Project Leader, 2013
Apr  17  Adrian 'cmot' von Bidder passed away, 2011
Apr  17  Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) released, 2014
Apr  17  Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) released, 2017
Apr  18  Einstein's Death, 1955
Apr  18  First Laundromat opens, Fort Worth Texas, 1934
Apr  18  San Francisco earthquake, 1906
Apr  18  Independence Day in Chile and Zimbabwe
Apr  18*  Parshat Shmini
Apr  18  Yes breaks up after 13 years, 1981
Apr  18  Paris' treaty instituting the CECA (an idea of R. Schuman), 1951
Apr  19  National Garlic Day
Apr  19  Landing of the "33" in Uruguay
Apr  19  Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943
Apr  19  Declaration of Independence in Venezuela
Apr  19  Republic Day in Sierra Leone
Apr  19  Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) released, 2007
Apr  20  National Look Alike Day
Apr  20  Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971
Apr  20*  Patriot's Day in Maine & Massachusetts (3rd Monday)
Apr  21  Lyrid meteor shower
Apr  21  San Jacinto Day in Texas
Apr  21  Tiradentes in Brazil
Apr  21*  Yom HaShoah
Apr  21  Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released, 2016

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