Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Boomtime, the 73rd day of Bureaucracy 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

Oct  18  Feast Day of St. Luke
Oct  18  Boston Shoemakers form first US labor org., 1648
Oct  18  Soviets announce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959
Oct  18  Chuck Berry is born in St. Louis, Missouri, 1926
Oct  18  Great Horn Faire
Oct  18  Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) released, 2007
Oct  18  Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) released, 2012
Oct  19  Mao Tse-tung establishes the People's Republic of China, 1949
Oct  19  Napoleon's beaten army begins the long retreat from Moscow, 1812
Oct  19  Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) released, 2017
Oct  20  Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958
Oct  20  "Saturday Night Massacre", 1973
Oct  20  OPEC embargo, 1973
Oct  20  Anniversary of the 1944 Revolution in Guatemala
Oct  20  Kenyatta Day in Kenya
Oct  20  Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a plane crash, 1977
Oct  20  Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) released, 2004
Oct  20  Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) released, 2016

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