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Where is the Pirate Bay?

Iron Wil — Fri, 21 May 2010 13:02:33 +0000

Earlier this week the German Courts shut down a German ISP that was hosting The Pirate Bay, a famous file sharing website. May 18th, the Pirate Party of Sweden announced that they have taken over the hosting of The Pirate Bay. This is a huge political and social move by the Pirate Party of Sweden. Christian Engström, Pirate MEP, has posted several articles on his blog in relation to what is happening with both.

Are Technica has several articles on the subject with the latest one, Pirate Party hosting Pirate Bay in pro-P2P political gesture being the latest one. The copyright battle is ongoing and this is going to be a much bigger fight than the RIAA or the MPAA could have imagined. This is not a US vs. the World battle, this is a copyright and usage argument. It comes down to letting others use material for creative purposes or not. The big companies will try to prevent the usage of media and materials for creative endeavors.

File sharers will still trade things online. The difference will be whether there will be fair use for creative purposes or not. I am siding with fair use.

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Get your WordPress on @ DZineBlog

Iron Wil — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:22:40 +0000

Yugu has compiled a detailed list of tools, tips, and other links for your WordPress blog.

see it here.

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Easy Backup Plug-in

Iron Wil — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:06:06 +0000

The team at Design Praxis have released a WordPress Backup utility that you install in your plug-ins folder and it backs up everything to your server, including the DB. In reading up on this program it is still in Beta and users are reporting bugs for it.

Use at your own risk! get it here.

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WordPress Security, Beefing Up

Iron Wil — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:55:34 +0000

BlogSecurity has released an updated whitepaper for hardening or securing your WordPress install. In reading it, I am going to try some of their tips and hit their website for more information. You should too.

Want a copy of the WordPress Security Whitepaper? get yours here.

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WordPress 2.3, the upgrade

Iron Wil — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:17:33 +0000

Well, last night I put in the effort to upgrade to the New WordPress 2.3 “Dexter”. Oh yeah, from now on I will NEVER run a upgrade unless I have a whole weekend. For some reason, I was not expecting the upgrade to break things, like Ryboe Tag Cloud and my BlogRoll, what was I thinking!

So, I spent hours last night working to find replacement plug-ins and I am still tweaking them, specifically New Tag Cloud. I converted my Categories to Tags and lost all my Categories. Now, I get to “fix” them. My complaint, no disclaimer letting me know that I would lose them if they were converted.

I also learned that if you go through the entire install process and upgrade the db, you can’t go back. Aaahhh, that was a joy last night around midnight, so I reran the Automatic Update, which worked great! I then went to bed and I will be working out any ‘bugs’ that I have created with my gimped install.

But next time, I think that I will have to read all the documentation and then decide if I need to upgrade my WordPress. When I do, it will have to be over a weekend so that I have extra time to spend correcting errors.

iron wil

Upgrading WordPress, not the ordeal I thought it would be!

Iron Wil — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:55:26 +0000

I have been blogging for a several months now [about 6] and the first time I updated WordPress (WP) it was a disaster! I didn’t take the time to read up on how to do it and I made the mistake of thinking that my ISP’s One-Click could handle it. I was wrong. Luckily I had only a few article posted and I made text file copies of them. However . . ..

In the first two weeks, I saw that a new WP had been released [2.1, I believe] and [you] knowing that I am concerned with [systems] security I wanted to make sure I was up to date. I backed up my post by pasting it into a text file; then I used the One-Click install and broke everything. I spent an afternoon updating my site. Well, after getting it back online, I decided to make sure that I would not repeat that mistake. I started doing research when the next release came out.

I noticed that just a few days ago that there was another release. I started to get anxious because they were security patches. Then I came across Manual Upgrade Instructions¹ [UGGG!!!], there are a lot of steps. Then I came across WordPress Automatic Upgrade² which I really felt better about but I was ready to read the manual instructions before I made a decision. Then I made the time to read up on Automatic Upgrade, and I felt a whole lot better.

I first FTPed my site to safety and installed the Automatic Plug-in. I think it took an hour to download my original site and process the upgrade all the way through the end. The hardest part was to locate my FTP username and password, and the WordPress Automatic Upgrade² was as simple as clicking through the dialogs and then double checking to make sure that it worked. I then deleted the back up files and I haven’t looked back!

I really like this WP Widget and would encourage everybody that uses WP to get it!

iron wil

Notes:

1) WordPress Manual Upgrade Instructions.

2) WordPress Automatic Upgrade Instructions.