Hamachi Install Error On Ubuntu - Fixed

I recently re-installed ubuntu (linux) on a server and ran into difficulties installing hamachi.  As it turned out I tried to setup hamachi without installing the tun module first.  I then installed the tun module, but hamachi wouldn’t work.  I eventually figured out that the tuncfg had to be cleaned/make’ed again, after the tun was re-created.

This is the error I was getting:

bash: /sbin/tuncfg: No such file or directory

And this fixed it:

./hamachi-0.9.9.9-20-lnx# cd tuncfg
./hamachi-0.9.9.9-20-lnx/tuncfg# sudo make clean
rm -f tuncfg
./hamachi-0.9.9.9-20-lnx/tuncfg# sudo make
cc     tuncfg.c   -o tuncfg
./hamachi-0.9.9.9-20-lnx/tuncfg# cd ..
./hamachi-0.9.9.9-20-lnx# sudo make install

Copying hamachi into /usr/bin ..
Creating hamachi-init symlink ..
Compiling tuncfg ..
Copying tuncfg into /sbin ..

Hamachi is installed. See README for what to do next.
./hamachi-0.9.9.9-20-lnx# sudo tuncfg

In 1999, A Choice Was Made To Ease Lending Restrictions

NY Times article:
Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending : September 30, 1999

In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.

The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets — including the New York metropolitan region — will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring.

In addition, banks, thrift institutions and mortgage companies have been pressing Fannie Mae to help them make more loans to so-called subprime borrowers. These borrowers whose incomes, credit ratings and savings are not good enough to qualify for conventional loans, can only get loans from finance companies that charge much higher interest rates — anywhere from three to four percentage points higher than conventional loans.

By no means is this the sole cause of anything, but it’s an interesting data-point in looking back to how we got here.

Quick Poppy Accomplishment Update

Poppy has started really reaching for people when she wants to be held.  She also now will usually kiss whomever is holding her.  That kiss is often with an open mouth and extended tounge, but we’re not picky - it counts!

You can tell she wants to stand all the time.  She’s pulling up on stuff and getting her balance and letting go with both hands, usually to fall in a second or on a good day, two… but she keeps her balance well sitting and fairly well standing.  She’ll be walking her soon, to be sure.

Her talking is still just babbling, but it’s come a ways, as well…

A Touching Movie Clip About Selling The Right Message

Money Or Lives, What Do We Care About In This Country?

Something has come to me, in the light of the current financial crisis in this country…

Most people in this country are now aware that we are on the brink of a depression as serious as the one in the 1930s.  People are up in arms, talking to their congressional representatives and it is all over the media.  There’s action (or at least attempted and perhaps misguided action) in our government to fix some of the problems, and we are all sure the sky is falling and things need to be done.

My revalation: We saw nothing like this action and activity when it came to light how corrupt our government already was, in relation to the US invading Iraq.  How self-centered we are, that when our money is directly effected we are all ready to act on something.  Whereas, when the problems are someone else’s most of our country is content to sit back and maybe talk about the subject…

Of course some people marched on Washington and some impotently raged (I’m in the later category), but on the whole, most people didn’t notice that we ruined another country from top to bottom and have done a poor job in putting it back together… oh yeah, and we killed 87,833-95,866 iraqis and lost 4175 US troops (as of today).

There hasn’t been a flurry of activity that I know of on scale with this financial scare.

Sure, our economy is going down in flames for a few years.  We’re looking at a very hard few years, and hopefully a period of some serious and deep rooted changes in our government and country as a whole.  As I see it we are long overdue for both the hard times and the changes… 

I just find it disgusting that our motivation is so self-centered when we had ample opportunity to get disgusted at killing and loosing many lives in the name of stupidity… in the name of oil… in the name of believing that the West could “fix the world” with deadly force. 

Wall Street Bailout, Explained On Fresh Air’s Show Sept. 23, 2008

A fantastic interview on Fresh Air regarding our current state of the economy and the proposed bailout plan, where we are encouraged to not look at the details and just buy… 

The Wall Street Bailout: A Conflict Of Interest?

Henry Paulson: The Treasury secretary’s $700 billion bailout plan awaits congressional approval.Getty Images

Fresh Air from WHYY,September 23, 2008 · With financial markets in flux and a massive government rescue package in the works, financial reporter and New York Timescolumnist Gretchen Morgenson looks into what’s involved in the nearly $700 billion deal.

One central concern: The way troubled banks’ assets get valued when the federal government buys them. “Depending on how [the bailout program is operated, and how the assets are valued before taxpayers are forced to buy them, it could bloat our final bill for this mess while benefiting the very institutions that got us into it,” Morgenson wrote in a recent column.

Morgenson talks to Terry Gross about strategies the government might employ to value the assets taxpayers are buying from endangered institutions — and how regulators might earn back some of the trust they’ve lost in recent weeks.

Grand Central - Project Care (phone Numbers For The Homeless)

Poppy Is A Leaf Eater

Anita and many of the mom’s took their offspring to Tyler Park today.

Poppy was somewhat fussy, all day and in fact all month… she’s getting teeth and she’s frustrated that she can’t really walk on her own yet.  Life is hard.

So hard, in fact, that sometimes, if you’re a baby, you just gotta eat some leaves and puke… which she did, with abandon.  What we didn’t figure out until ~9pm tonight was that one of those leaves was stuck to the roof of her mouth for over 5 hours. 

She wasn’t eating right, and seemed a little weird… in retrospect her actions certainly indicated that there might be a leaf stuck in her mouth, but neither of us thought to check for one.

Anyhow, she’s fine and asleep and happy.  Just a funny little story.

Kentucky Homeschoolers On Parent’s Magazine

I saw the following article on a list serve I’ve been lurking on; a simple overview of personal experience with homeschooling… but it’s nice to see local examples get national coverage. Homeschool Diaries: How 3 Families Teach Kids at Home

Satirical Voting Republican

www.ImVotingRepublican.com

I’m Voting Republican is a satirical look at the likely outcome of another four years of Republican government. The not-so-subtle message behind the film is the importance of a united bloc of citizens willing to take the time and effort to vote Democrat in order to improve America’s domestic and foreign policy.

Back In Business, Now With Power

Saturday night we got back home and were amazed to see lights on.  LG&E rigged up some scary looking connections across downed lines (we will not go walking on stilts), but they got our block light up… faster than I expected.

We were without power for right at a week, and it certainly could have been much worse.  We had no damage and no monetary loss (except the food in the fridge/freezer).  Pretty much, it was like wussy-camping.  I worked at Via and charged my phone there… we walked and visited with neighbors and ate out after our food spoiled.  Kinda fun, really.

Pirate Name For “talk Like A Pirate Day”

Source: www.piratename.net

The Big Louisville Windstorm Of 2008

We’re without power, like most of Louisville.

On Sunday afternoon the wind really started picking up. We thought a storm was coming, but we had no idea about the extent. So, stupidly, we went for a walk around the neighborhood with Poppy. As we are walking, we see a small tree go down… “whoa - that’s crazy” but you know, it’s a small tree, perhaps it was just planted… then we get a little further and we hear a big ripping sound and look back and less than half a block up a huge oak tree has just been pulled up at the roots. At this point we realize our idiocy, but we can’t go back the way we came because that big tree took down some power lines. So we walk around the block and keep hitting downed trees and downed power lines. We talk to people who are re-parking their cars and are trying to find brick building to be near.

Eventually we decide that walking through the park is the safest option, since it’s in a valley and all the trees are on the edges. It was a good place to hide out and we stayed there for a while… a couple of trees went down while we were in there, but all on the edges and nothing threatening us. When we decided to head back to the house, we walked out the other side of the park, crossed the street to the business district, and then headed back up the hill to our house… half-running the whole time. Our hearts were racing and we felt stupid for venturing out… but it was also fun.

Now we are without power and probably will be one of the last streets to get power back, since it’s a fairly small street and there are big trees down at all access points to the street. I had a great day off with Poppy yesterday and am at a friend’s office today, working again.

The remnants of Hurricane Ike hit the Louisville Metro area Sunday, leaving much of the city without power and causing widespread damage. Classes at Jefferson County Public Schools and Catholic schools will be cancelled on Tuesday, September 16, along with classes at Greater Clark County, New Albany-Floyd County Consolidated, Clarksville Community and West Clark schools.

More than 200,000 LG&E customers were still without power Tuesday morning, and although all crews are currently working to restore service, officials say the outages could persist for up to two weeks.

– source: http://www.wfpl.org