Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 21st 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  03*  Good Friday (Statutory holiday)
Apr  03  National Find a Rainbow Day
Apr  03  Washington Irving born, 1783
Apr  03*  Good Friday (2 days before Easter)
Apr  03  IBM 701 introduced, 1953
Apr  04  Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores)
Apr  04  Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
Apr  04  NATO Established, 1949
Apr  04  Gandalf visits Bilbo
Apr  04  Ching Ming Festival in Hong Kong
Apr  04  Liberation Day in Hungary
Apr  04  National Day in Senegal
Apr  04*  Parshat Tzav
Apr  04  Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) is born in Rolling Fork,
Mississippi,  1915 
Apr  05  Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher
Apr  05*  Easter Sunday
Apr  05  Arbor Day in South Korea
Apr  05  Tomb Sweeping Day in Taiwan
Apr  06*  Easter Monday
Apr  06  National Teflon Day
Apr  06  Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, 1830
Apr  06  Chakri Memorial Day in Thailand
Apr  06  Victory Day in Ethiopia
Apr  07  National No Housework Day
Apr  07  IBM announces System/360, 1964
Apr  07  Alewives run, Cape Cod

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