RockDoggy’s Woodshop

Thoughts from a hobbyist woodworker

Browsing Posts published in August, 2008

Ingredients: 1 pork tenderloin (I buy at Costco, they’re about 12″ long) 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil 1/2 cup soy sauce 1-2 cloves minced garlic 1/2 tsp lemon juice Directions: Preheat oven to 375 degrees while preparing marinade & meat. If you prefer, you can line your baking pan with aluminum foil for easier [...]

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Yesterday morning, I left the laptop with about 5 hours to go to complete the Wubi installation. I didn’t count on my Father-in-law coming over three hours later, using the laptop, and closing it – thus hibernating it. He had no idea (uses my wife’s login) and I was beside myself after 20+ hours invested [...]

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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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