RockDoggy’s Woodshop

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Browsing Posts published on August 14, 2008

Here’s what I hope to be doing on Sunday…

Final assembly of the lower beds

Final assembly of the lower beds

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 will only be enough room under the high bed for the occupant of the lower bed to fit their feet under it. If they tried to put their head under there, aside from some claustrophobia, they’d probably crack their head on the underside of the high bed if they moved.

So the low beds are complete except for a finish, and the high beds are nearly ready for assembly. Some sanding is still required, and I still need to build the rails and the ladders. The plan is to put the finish on everything while I’m on vacation the week of Labor Day.

Once that is all done, the final phase of the project will be to build chests of drawers to fit under the exposed end of the high beds. Who knows how long that will take. It’s been most of a year to finish four beds!

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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 times two is still zero, right? But I’m willing to let it roll again.

Out of curiosity, I did a broadband speed check (during the install) just to make sure it wasn’t my connection. While I certainly wasn’t getting my alleged 6 megabits, I was just short of 2 megabits during the install. Plenty of leftover bandwidth.

So I can only assume the problem is with Wubi’s sudden popularity, though their forums don’t reflect much of a problem. Not sure what to think of that. But I think I’ll let this go, and see where we get to in the morning. According to the installer’s most recent estimate, I have 14.5 hours to go.

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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 the Wubi forums and FAQ, hoping to find some guidance on this slowness, but other than finding one or two other souls with the same problem, I found no answers.  My guess is that something on the laptop (AVG anti-virus, or who knows what) is killing the download speed that other people report being close to 10 minutes.
I think I’ll try again on my desktop machine, and see if the results are better.  More to follow in part 3…

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