Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Pungenday, the 73rd day of Chaos 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

Mar  13  "Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894
Mar  13  National Day in Grenada
Mar  13  The Allman Brothers record their live album at the Fillmore East, 1971
Mar  13  Burgsonndeg - festival of rebirth of the sun and the approach of spring
Mar  13  Creation of the ECU (European Community Currency), 1979
Mar  14  National PI Day
Mar  14  Albert Einstein born, 1879
Mar  14  Casey Jones born, 1864
Mar  14  Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer;
named  Mars  "canals"
Mar  14  Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist
Mar  14  LISP introduced, 1960
Mar  14  Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US, 1907
Mar  14*  Parshat Ki Tisa
Mar  15  Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson, 7th President of the United States,
born  in  Waxhaw, South Carolina, 1767
Mar  15  J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia
Mar  15  Day of the 1848 revolution in Hungary
Mar  15  Buzzards return to Hinckley OH
Mar  15  France assumes protectorate over Vietnam, 1874
Mar  15  Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25, 1966
Mar  15  Ides of March. Gaius Julius Caesar assassinated by senators,
including  adoptive  son Marcus Junius Brutus Caepio, 44BC
Mar  15  Sly Stone born, 1944
Mar  16  George Clymer born, 1739
Mar  16  James Madison, 4th President of the United States, born in King George
County,  Virginia,  1751
Mar  16  MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by US infantrymen
Mar  16  Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926
Mar  16  Black Press Day; first US Black newspaper founded in 1827
Mar  16  First european demonstration in Bruxelles, 1997
Mar  17  Saint Patrick's Day
Mar  17  Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped
Mar  17  Evacuation Day in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Mar  17  St. Patrick's Day - one of the Patron Saints of Ireland
Mar  17  Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane) is born in San Francisco, 1942
Mar  17  Celebration of Trefuilnid Treochar (St.Patrick's day)
Mar  17  Debian Bug#300000 reported by Florian Zumbiehl, 2005

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