Cliffe

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.

• Genealogy / Family Tree
• The Naughty Knotty Page
• Free Laundry Symbols Chart
• The CliffeE-Store

Interesting Dates

Nov	14	National Pickle Day
Nov	14	Quarter Pounder price raised from $0.53 to $0.55 in violation of Nixon
price	controls	(but okayed by Price Commission after formal request
from	McDonald's),	1971
Nov	14	King Hussein's Birthday in Jordan
Nov	14*	Parshat Chayei Sara
Nov	15	National Raisin Bran Cereal Day
Nov	15	Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896
Nov	15	Dynasty Day in Belgium
Nov	15	Proclamation of the Republic in Brazil
Nov	15	Thatlouang Festival in Laos
Nov	16	Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869
Nov	16	Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 1938
Nov	16	Bilbo reaches the Lonely Mountain
Nov	16	Oklahoma Heritage Week in Oklahoma
Nov	16	Bill Ham first demonstrates his psychedelic "Light Show", 1965

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_TYPE Disable Wayland in gdm by editting /etc/gdm3/custom.conf [daemon] WaylandEnable=false
Correct Ubuntu 16.04 Intel driver lag	Create /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