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
| Jan | 23 | National Pie Day |
| Jan | 23 | Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory |
| Jan | 23 | Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899 |
| Jan | 23 | John Hancock born, 1737 |
| Jan | 23 | Joseph Hewes born, 1730 |
| Jan | 23 | Samuel Barber died, 1981 |
| Jan | 23 | Feast of St. Ildefonsus |
| Jan | 23 | US National Handwriting Day |
| Jan | 24 | John Belushi is born in Chicago, 1949 |
| Jan | 24 | DG Nova introduced, 1969 |
| Jan | 24 | Eskimo Pie patented by Christian Nelson, 1922 |
| Jan | 24 | Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill, 1848 |
| Jan | 24 | Economic Liberation Day in Togo |
| Jan | 24 | Warren Zevon is born in Chicago, 1947 |
| Jan | 25 | Robert Burns born, 1759 |
| Jan | 25 | Virginia Woolf born, 1882 |
| Jan | 25 | W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874 |
| Jan | 25 | First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958 |
| Jan | 25* | Parshat Vaera |
| Jan | 25 | Bob Dylan plays the second "Hurricane" benefit, in the Astrodome, 1978 |
| Jan | 25 | Old Disting Feast |
| Jan | 26 | EDVAC demonstrated, 1952 |
| Jan | 26 | Sydney, New South Wales settled, 1788 |
| Jan | 26 | Republic Day in India |
| Jan | 26 | Australia Day in Australia |
| Jan | 27 | National Chocolate Cake Day |
| Jan | 27 | Samuel Gompers born, 1850 |
| Jan | 27 | Grissom, White and Chaffe burned to death in Apollo 1, 1967 |
| Jan | 27 | Vietnam War cease-fire signed, 1973 |
| Jan | 27 | Bobby "Blue" Bland (Robert Calvin Bland) is born in Tennessee, 1930 |
| Jan | 27 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in Salzburg, Austria, 1756 |
| Jan | 27 | Giuseppe Verdi dies in Milan, Italy, 1901 |
| Jan | 27* | Upelly - old fire festival |
Tech
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 |