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Dell Coupon Codes: Are you Cheap and Stingy?

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If you are, then Cheap&Stingy.com might just be your dream website for dell coupon codes! It has great deals for Dell notebooks, laptops, desktops, cameras and more. I was personally attracted by this deal, though I might skip the Vista OS part.
Dell Inspiron e1501 15.4 WXGA, AMD Turion X2 1.6Mhz, 1GB Ram, 80GB HD, DVD-RW, Vista Basic for only $599 *HOT! *
This is a HOT price considering the options:

Dell Small Business has the Dell Inspiron e1501 Laptop for only $599!

15.4 inch Wide Screen WXGA Display, AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-50, 1GB DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, Vista Home Basic, 80 GB Hard Drive, Double-layer DVD Burner, Dell Wireless Mini Card, 53 WHr 6 Cell Battery, and a 1 Year Warranty!

Now that would be a great laptop to tote around for all you bloggers out there, wouldn’t it? Nice big screen, Dual Core, lots of RAM, DVD burner, wireless… Now how much was that?

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Update WP 2.1.1 to 2.1.2 – code compromised!

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That’s right. All you WP 2.1.1 users who went to all the trouble to upgrade just a short time ago now need to upgrade urgently. Notification (Courtesy of John Chow) included the following warning:

Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.

Longer explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code in WordPress. The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original code. We took the website down immediately to investigate what happened.

It was determined that a cracker had gained user-level access to one of the servers that powers wordpress.org, and had used that access to modify the download file. We have locked down that server for further forensics, but at this time it appears that the 2.1.1 download was the only thing touched by the attack. They modified two files in WP to include code that would allow for remote PHP execution.

I didn’t upgrade to 2.1.1 as I’m still on the old branch of WP! I had just upgraded to the latest version of that when 2.1 was released to my surprise! I was just too lazy then. Now, I’m wondering: with 2.1.2 out already, upgrading should be soon. It’s just so much trouble upgrading, that I’ll think I’ll just upgrade the necessary files, file by file. I have so many plugins, downloads, a theme that is tweaked beyond easy redoing… I hate upgrading… Anyway, that is no excuse: I have to bite the bullet.

Copyright: does a blogger’s blog have copyright?

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After a real incident in a workplace, I was inspired to think about the issue of copyright.
I was wondering about the issue of copyright after someone in my workplace tried to claim my work as theirs. I was annoyed as anyone would be. However, it started me thinking about the issue of copyright. How is copyright claimed? How is it asserted? How is it protected? What are the limits on copyright claims?

Now I’m not a lawyer, but I do believe that copyright does affect bloggers like you and me. Once your blog becomes popular enough, scrapers may steal your content, unscrupulous bloggers may copy and paste your entries, and fakers may even in some extreme cases replicate your entire website.

If your blog is important enough to you, financially or otherwise, it might be a good idea to seek out legal counsel in your jurisdiction about how to protect your investment.

In the meantime, I’ll be creating a copyright notice for the bottom of this page. And I’ll be reading Brad Templeton’s notes on copyright, too.

I’d love to hear from anyone who has experience on this matter, just post your story on the comments or register and submit an article via email!