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 the whole plaintext / [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2006’
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 was now on my [...]
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 finding the appropriate line [...]
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 a Windows / Mac mixed environment) just fine [...]
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 firms instead of a [...]
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 same characteristics [...]