Well, another WordPress update (2.6) is upon us. I was dreading a manual upgrade again since this site uses a custom template. Looking around on the WordPress site led to an unexpected gem–a link to a “WordPress Automatic Upgrade” plugin.
The plugin automates the whole update to the most current version on wordpress.org including backing up your current site and database. It evens takes care of grabbing the newest release file for you. Very cool and everything went perfectly.
WordPress Automatic Update (Techie Buzz)
Recently I wanted to add an icon to a panel in Gnome to suspend my laptop (to RAM.) Some googling didn’t immediately find a way to do this. Gnome includes a “Shutdown” applet but it brings up the shutdown dialog which I want to skip. There were also some mentions of running pm-suspend but if you do that it will suspend without Gnome knowing about it–with the side effect of no login prompt on being awakened.
So, here is how I did it. Note that these instructions were done on Fedora 9 although it shouldn’t matter except maybe for choosing the icon.
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