1. Login to your shell
2. mv blog blog_old
3. mkdir blog_new && cd blog_new && svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.7 .
4. cd ~/blog_old/
5. cp -p wp-config.php .htaccess ../blog_new && cp -rpf wp-content/* ../blognew/wp-content
6. cd ~/blog_new/ && svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.7/ .
7. mv blog_new blog
   
8. go to http://<you_url>/wp-admin/upgrade.php and perform the update process

And thats it! Put it in the hoven for 10 minutes and leave to rest! After that go enjoy your new and upgraded blog! Oh, by the way, each time a new version comes out, just go inside your blog dir and do a:

• svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.7/ .

Pretty sweet! =)

UPDATE: in fact you can forget step 2, and just move your old directory in the end, when about to go live. Perform the all the steps in the recipe, than at the end, just change blog to blog_old (or some other name you might have) and change blog_new to blog. This way you now point to you new SVN install, and you old stuff is safeguarded. Enjoy!

We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.

Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.

People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.

At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.

Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog

It’s going to be hard to tag 8 more people, since I don’t know that many bloggers online…

Here are my 8 random facts:

1. My favorite drink is Coca-Cola, which is also the name given to a person which was born at Maputo, capital of Mozambique (where I was born)
2. I used to hate cats, and now, me and my girlfriend share the house with 2
3. I absolutely love to cook anything from fresh pasta, sushi, to the more regular food… I truly believe if I wasn’t a computer geek I was studying for chef
4. I already set my feet on 12 different countries (this by the time I was 20)
5. I never sleep with my socks on, but I have to get in bed with them
6. I panic if someone squeezes my nose
7. Once I was run over by a luggage truck, on my way to surprise my mother in the airplane
8. Once I was truly disappointed to know that my dream of being an astronaut would be impossible, because I have more than the permitted height, both in NASA and in ESA… I measure 1,94 meters!

And thats it! For now I only have one blog buddy besides Rick, but I will update my list in the future.
I choose to tag Artur Martins on his blog.

I hope I get this list bigger… =)

I am a big fan of GNU Linux, and other UX alike, and I recognize in the last couple of years, Linux as come a long long way, with every modern distro being able to recognize your hardware (at least most of them); I was positively surprised to install the latest Ubuntu on my girlfriend’s laptop, and just like in my Mac, I was able to connect right away to my WIFI connection with WPA TKIP security, with no hassle.

Now, in my humble opinion, I believe the industry is following Apple and their ideas. Things just work, stuff does not get in the way. You tend to feel, that everything, from instant messaging, to emailing, media organizing or just file browsing, have more productivity. Hell, even the hardware doen not get in the way! I might be wrong, but it’s a strong feeling.
I also believe Apple should follow the Open Source movement, because they have very good ideas, very good hardware, and they would win a lot more if they just shared with the rest of the world… I truly believe this, but I also know this is daydreaming (I am singing in my head, Lupe Fiasco’s “Daydreamin‘)

Getting back to the clean up! I did my backups to a external USB drive, rebooted with the Mac OS X inside the drive, and booted using the C key.
This took me inside a install “OS”, very similar to the real thing. Here, I had access to disk utility’s, log viewer. I did the full install, without answering to 100 questions! This felt very good, once again, does not get in the way. It’s simple, easy, and you don’t have to be a astronaut to get away without problems!

When everything was installed, it took me 5 minutes to put my login info, to configure my WIFI connection, and I was up and running!
When I bought this Macbook, I messed everything around, just to get to know the operating system. With time everything felt sluggish, and not snappy anymore, so now I have the full system back, and from now on, I will keep it this way, at least I’ll try! =)

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