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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.

Stag and Doe Prizes

Interesting Dates

Apr  18  Yes breaks up after 13 years, 1981
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  Paris' treaty instituting the CECA (an idea of R. Schuman), 1951
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  Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of busing, 1971

Genealogy

Family Tree

Tech

Technical notes and projects

The Naughty Knotty Page

Free Laundry Symbols Chart

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

Terminology Demo
Synergy on iPad
Informacast-Edit Audio
Informacast-Create Broadcast Informacast-Bell Schedule E17 Window Manager demo -old

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