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

Sep	15	Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890
Sep	15	ACM founded, 1947
Sep	15	Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US, 1959
Sep	15	The US Foreign Affairs Dept. becomes the US State Department, 1789
Sep	15	Black riders enter the Shire
Sep	15	Foundation of Panama in Panama
Sep	16	National Play-Doh Day
Sep	16	Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914
Sep	16	The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston, 1630
Sep	16	Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore unite to become Malaysia, 1963
Sep	16	Cherokee Strip Day in Oklahoma
Sep	16	Independence Days in Mexico and Papua New Guinea
Sep	16	B.B. King is born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, 1925
Sep	17	Battle of Antietam, 1862
Sep	17	National Heroes Day in Angola

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