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Development: blogs.gnome.org: Wordpress 3.1, new IP address

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http://permalink.gmane.org – Christer Edwards upgraded blogs.gnome.org to Wordpress 3.1. He also moved it from window to a VM on combobox (209.132.180.177). Might take a while before you notice due to DNS. If you want to use blogs.gnome.org NOW, put the following in /etc/hosts: 209.132.180.177 blogs.gnome.org (Software)

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