Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Boomtime, the 46th day of Confusion 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

Jul  10  John Calvin born, 1509
Jul  10  Nikola Tesla, born, 1856, supergenius, inventor AC Motor
Jul  10  134 degrees in Death Valley, 1913
Jul  10  Independence Day in Bahamas
Jul  10  Carl Orff is born in Munich, Germany, 1895
Jul  11  National Cheer Up The Lonely Day
Jul  11  John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States, born in
Braintree,  Massachusetts,  1767
Jul  11  National Holiday in the Mongolian People's Republic
Jul  11*  Parshat Pinchas
Jul  11  Joel 'Espy' Klecker died at the age of 21, 2000
Jul  12  National Pecan Pie Day
Jul  12  Henry David Thoreau born, 1817
Jul  12  Minimum wages established: 40 cents/hour, 1933
Jul  12  Battle of Boyne celebrated in Northern Ireland
Jul  12  Chicago DJ Steve Dahl holds "Disco Demolition" at Kamisky Park, 1979
Jul  13  Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908
Jul  14  National Mac and Cheese Day
Jul  14  Anniversary of the Revolution in Iraq
Jul  14  French National Festival
Jul  14  National Holiday in Monaco
Jul  14  Woodie Guthrie born, 1912

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