RockDoggy’s Woodshop

Thoughts from a hobbyist woodworker

Browsing Posts published on August 14, 2008

Here’s what I hope to be doing on Sunday… That’s a picture of the beds I’ve been building for the kids. These are loft/bunk style beds, where they will fit together in an “L” shape. The high beds are lower than a typical bunk, which is why they must be in the “L” configuration. There [...]

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OK, I couldn’t let it go. Back to the laptop, I decided to click on the Wubi installer again. One feature I didn’t mention is that it’s able to resume a cancelled installation. So it picked up again at about 24%. It’s also downloading at twice the speed it was this morning. Of course, zero [...]

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Well that was unsatisfying. I tried the download on my little-used desktop after clearing 12.5 GB of space on it, and the downloads were similarly snail-ish. I killed it. I’ll dig on the Wubi site later, perhaps. But for now I quit. No Ubuntu for me today!

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This update is short, since I abandoned the installation of Wubi.  I let it run overnight last night, going to be with an estimated 28 hours remaining.  When I woke up this morning, it was estimating 25 hours, and I guarantee I slept at least 7 hours.  So I quit the install. I did check [...]

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