Update: I have fixed some stuff (time format and placement of AT keyword) and have posted v0.0.2 at the link below.
Please find here a short Perl script to dump out your Microsoft Outlook appointments in Remind format.
This should be useful to those of you who, like me, are tracking [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2006’
Outlook to Remind (out2rem) Converter Script v0.0.1
Vim 7.0 Delights and Amazes with Beautified Auto-completion
Randall Lucas 2006-06-21
Vim, the text editor extraordinaire, came out with version 7.0 last month. At some point, unwittingly, I had updated my work computer — Cygwin under Windows XP — using the Cygwin setup.exe file, not expecting any major version number changes. Hence, I didn’t even realize that Vim 7 [...]
Fixing a package remove failure on Debian (or Ubuntu) when dpkg-divert barfs.
2006-06-18 Randall Lucas
If you get stuck with a half-uninstalled (technically “half-installed;” the debian dpkg system is an optimist, I guess) package that barfs on running its postrm (post-removal) script with something like:
“dpkg-divert: mismatch on divert-to …”
This can sometimes be fixed, or at least made to shut up, by [...]
FIX: Ubuntu Dapper upgrade breaks CUPS printing; reinstall fixes it.
2006-06-11 Randall Lucas
Upon upgrading my Ubuntu installation to Dapper using a simple:
sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list
to add the Dapper repositories, and then
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
I discovered that my printing no longer worked. I just previously been printing (and sharing my printer with [...]
To the sender of an unsolicited business plan email
2006-06-08 Randall Lucas Hello, I received an unsolicited business plan via email from you. This letter will try, in a constructive and humble manner, to tell you why I won’t read it, and what else you should try. Unsolicited commercial email is spam — even if it’s sent to twenty VC [...]
Unsolicited Emails and VCs
2006-06-01 Randall Lucas About a month after starting to work for Voyager Capital’s investment team, I started noticing a different kind of spam email than I had ever received in the past: business plan spam. This problem — probably fairly unique to VCs (and possibly high-profile angel investors) — exhibits many of the [...]