Cliffe

Welcome to the Cliffe.ca page.

Today is Boomtime, the 45th day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3191

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

Dec  02  National Holiday in United Arab Emirates
Dec  03  First neon light display, Paris, 1910
Dec  03  First successful human heart transplant led by Dr. Barnard, 1967
Dec  03  The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert, 1971
Dec  03  National Holiday in Laos
Dec  03  The ECU becomes the euro (€), 1995
Dec  04  National Sock Day
Dec  04  Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976
Dec  04  Washington takes leave of his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC, 1783
Dec  04  Frank Zappa dies in his Laurel Canyon home shortly before 18:00, 1993

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