Cliffe.ca

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.

Oct	03	Chung Yeung Festival in Hong Kong
Oct	03	Francisco Morazan's Birthday in Honduras
Oct	03	German Reunification Day
Oct	03	National Foundation Day in South Korea
Oct	03	U.N. Day in Barbados
Oct	03	Day of German Unity in Germany
Oct	03*	Sukkot
Oct	04	National Taco Day
Oct	04	John V. Atanasoff born, 1903
Oct	04	Crimean war begins, 1853
Oct	04	First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957
Oct	04	Independence Day in Lesotho
Oct	04*	Hol hamoed Sukkot
Oct	04	Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose in Hollywood, 1970
Oct	05	National Get Funky Day
Oct	05	Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born, 1902
Oct	05	Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain, 1881
Oct	05	Steve Jobs died at the age of 56, 2011
Oct	05	Frodo crosses bridge of Mitheithel
Oct	05	Anniversary of Proclamation of the Republic in Portugal
Oct	05*	Hol hamoed Sukkot
Oct	05	Steve Miller is born in Dallas, 1943

Tech

Technical notes and projects

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