I read this great article from GNU.org, describing why schools should use free software.

Read it and enjoy!

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/schools.html 

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The largest newspaper in sweden, aftonbladet.se, got their servers totally hacked during the last weeks. The group called “Vuxna arga hackare” which in english would be “Adult angry hackers”. The reason of why Vuxna arga hackare (VAH) hacked aftonbladet is because of a couple of days earlier they hacked one of the biggest TV channels in Sweden, Tv3, and got no attention at all from media. They totally ignored the hacking and because of that, they attacked aftonbladet.

VAH hacked afonbladet and gained control of their whole mail-server and all passwords and usernames to the system, which they then released to public at the swedish forum flashback.se. Ironicly, the IT-security crews had passwords such as “anakin” and a dozen of the publishers had their firstname as password.

They did also hack this same newspaper two years ago and was called “script-kiddies” by the aftonbladet security team which then, of course, had this eaten up this time when they decided to publish the story.

What can we learn from this? Well.. It’s not possible to be totally safe on the net and even though you are dedicated to keep the security up, you are not guaranteed to complete the job.

ps. VAH got inspired of another big swedish hacking-group called AUH(Arga unga hackare), which means Angry youth hackers. I love their names!

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Hehe I found a very funny picture (or it’s actually a graph) about productivity and Stumble upon combined.. Everbody knows that Stumble Upon drag your productivity down but still.. It’s such a good and funny plugin to have!

For those who don’t know what stumble upon is, it’s a service that let you choose an area in which you will be served several of very good internet pages. The pages has been stumpled by other users which should prove the quality and you will enjoy the results.

So for the people that have not tried it yet, I suggest you do! And please stumble this as well!

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Today is a quiz starting with questions about JK Rowling’s best-selling stories about the fictional character Harry Potter. The questions will be stated at the MSN Website and a new question will appear each week until December 20th.

The movie, called “The half-blood prince” is the sixth in the JK Rowling’s world-famous series. Daniel Radcliffe will as usual play the Hogwarts school hero.

The movie itself will hit the cinemas November next year.

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Here’s the most common PPC scripts on the web:

ProSearch PPC - Product made by Nexus and is a very common PPC script. Costs $150 and has a lot of features for that price including great overview of todays earnings and bids. It also has a built-in ip2country solution which makes your ads targeted.

ES Professional PPC Search engine - Has a very smart solution that grabs the meta data from google, altavista or msn and shows the data with some additional results that costs (PPC feeds). Costs $299 but has good recommendations.

Orbitscripts SmartPPC - Maybe the most used solution and is very well used. Has all these revenue models: Cost per Impression (CPI), Cost per Click (CPC), Cost per Action (CPA), Cost per Signup (CPS), Cost per Thousand Impressions (CPM).  To target your ads and avoid frauds the use technologies like:
● Geography (ex: United States, France, Brazil)
● IP address
● User session
● User cookie
● IP Network (ex: AOL, RoadRunner)
● Web Browser (ex: Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Safari)
● Search term
● The time of the click
● The rank of the advertiser’s listing
● The bid of the advertiser’s listing
● The time of the search

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There are plenty of ways to earn some money through internet. Some people are proffesional gamers, but that’s a pretty rare. They earn their money from sponsors and by winning tournaments both online and offline.

It do exists an easier way of earning some money by simply doing the things you like. If you blog, you can earn some money on that, and if you do, you probably will increase your morale of blogging which will make your blog even more successful and more valued. There are plenty of methods for bloggers to make cash. One is to use google adsense although that requires that you have pretty much traffic to give any results.

A couple of other examples of earning some money would be text-link-ads.com. There you can, if you have wordpress, join a sweet network that automaticly makes all your blogposts available for advertising and customers can search for a specific words, lets say “monetizing your website”, and they would probably find my post there.

Another cashbringer could be a network such as reviewme.com which offers reviews for some cash. You can post a 200 words review on your blog and they will pay you about $5 for it. Pretty easy money but kind of boring.

If you are running a forum or some kind of discussion board, you probably don’t like these tips. adsense works pretty bad in general because you have such a low CTR. If I had a big forum I’d probably go for a CPM ad, which pays you by thousends of impressions, since a forum has pretty many impressions but not that many clicks.

Or you can.. Just go to any casino site and hit the jackpot.. Good luck

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Even after my post on the Internet Marketing industry, you still want to be millionaire internet marketer, be sure you do these few things right and never make the next few mistakes. Firstly, to be an internet marketer you must be able to write a good copy, if not learn copywriting today, now, right this moment. The fact is that unless you have a copy, you will not be able convince your readers that your products is far more superior compared with the rest in market.

Next design your landing page for conversion. That’s to say that the next click by your reader will probably be the buy button or add to cart button. There is really no point in having tons of traffic or email subscribers if you are not able to convert it to sales. So write a good copy, wrap it nicely in a beautiful designed landing page.

Finally, make it easy to order and pay for the purchases. Once you done all the previous steps, the last item to note is to make sure that you make it really really simple for the readers to buy your items. Make the buy/add to cart/checkout buttons visible, so that the readers can see it instantly, and proceed to checkout.

With all that said, be sure you dun make these mistakes.

1. Fail to encode your affiliates urls/links. You want to appear to your readers as someone respectable and not someone with a website filled with affiliates links. So you should always encode all your affiliates links.
2. Fail to automate your delivery of purchases. Once your readers buy something from you, most will expect it to be delivered instantly, especially for e-books. So make it happen. These days, there’s plenty of software to automate the delivery of e-content. Personally, I like Ejunkie quite a lot.
3. Fail to follow-up constantly. To be a successful internet marketer, if you can’t follow-up closely on your subscribers, you are bound to fail. It is not easy to get a subscriber, so give them quality products and constantly follow-up.
4. Fail to do your homework. Unless you are just reselling other’s products, you need to do your homework first before you launched your own items. People are getting smarter everyday, reading more. So charm them with your knowledge.

If you did all the above steps, you should be off to a good start, but even with these, there’s no grantee of success at internet marketing. Like most things, you need practice, practice and more practice. (maybe sometime in the future, I will tell you more.)

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Before you jump onto the Internet Marketing arena, please read these posts - Internet Marketing in the Public Eye; Part 1 & Part 2. I believe these posts provide a honest opinon on the whole internet marketing industry.

To break it down into small pieces, this is Internet Marketing for you.

1. Everyone claims to be Guru or discover a secret ‘Get Rich’ formula. Most internet marketers claim to be Master/Guru in Affiliates Sales or Make Money from Online Ads (E.g Google Adsense, etc) Or they will be the directly opposite, E.g. common people who made millions from these programs and want to share their secrets with you. (Cmon!)
2. Congrats! You Won! Or You Get Something FREE! This is the second thing you can expect, you won something, just key in your email and you can download your free e-book now. Or you get to buy something at a discount price, for a limited time only.
3. You can certainly find Email Subscription Box (email, name). Next they will try to get you to subscribe to their free newsletter or discount with this email subscription box.
4. Sometimes you get to see a display Box, Books or CDs. Then some internet marketers will have a nicely done up display box with books and cds in their websites, etc. This way you will think that these are the actual items you are getting.
5. An Unbelievable / Unresistible Offer. Finally you will get a unresistible offer being offered to you, maybe something like for a limited time period only, you get item a, item b, item c … to z for a one time cost of only $99.
6. Expect to see ClickBank. Most internet marketers will use clickbank to promote their products or get affiliates to sell their products.

No matter where you go, if someone claims to be a internet marketer, you will definitely one or two of these items in their websites. The next question you might ask is why are these a norm?

Here’s why.

1. Internet marketers make their money from their email lists. Most internet marketers will work on their email subscribers, and to try to get them to buy from them. Most of these follow-up are taken care by email marketing software already, they just setup the email list, fill it in with the right copy. And blast!
2. You are almost certainly to get an e-book. Shipping worldwide can be costly, so e-book is the best way to deliver to everyone, anywhere and at zero cost. Plus the cost of production of an e-book is zero, and you can always reproduce it.

So when you look at it, the potential to make good $$$ from it is very good. Consider this, you have 200 email subscribers and any email blast you do, 3% convert to sales, that’s about 6 person. And if your item cost $99 each. You made $594 already for doing nothing but sending out emails! Most of the time, internet marketers will work on their email lists again and again and again.. Lol.. so everyone is a millionaire internet marketer!

But here’s something that no one will ever tell you!

More and more people no longer fall for these ‘Get Rich’ secrets ‘ideas’. People reading up more from respectable websites on how to make $$$ online. So now… the question remain is Who else wants to be an Internet Markerter?

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In early April 07, I went for my first reservist training, actually I quite enjoyed it. It is a good break from work, the only thing that bother me is the IPPT test, and that’s because it’s been quite for a while since I last exercised and I hate remedial training. (very embarrassing) This time I got Silver award for my IPPT, the truth is that I have a couple of ’secret’ training methods to keep me in shape. Secret Number One - Use the Bodyrev Perfect Pushup. If you are heavy, as in more than 65 kgs, and if you did not train your arms often, chin-ups will definitely be a problem, so to keep me in shape I do plenty of push up with this gadget.

Secret Number Two - Do plenty of heel raise and leg raise. If you dun keep a ’spare’, sit-up should not be a problem, but just in case, do leg raise after you go for your jog, it helps to burn a couple of min cm off your waist. Heel raise much like tip toe is to make sure you can pass your standing board jump. Do sets of 20 and take a 15 sec break, you should really feel a strain in your legs when doing this, in order for it to be effectively. You are working to looser the legs muscles, and before you got the test, a couple of tuck jumps will help too.

Secret Number Three - Train your mind. The 2.4 km run is one killer station, and most of the time, people failed is because they stop halfway and walk in the run. So it is important that in addition to your regular jogging, you train your mind too. That’s to say that you imagine you are running in your mind, each and every step, see how soon before you loose focus. Do it often enough you should be able to imagine yourself completing the run. Now you have a fit mind to go for the run.

If you keep to this 3 ‘not-a-secret’ secrets regularly, you should be able to pass your IPPT with a Silver at least. Well, that’s how I got mine. But honestly speaking, there’s no shortcut to a health body, you have to train regularly.

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Ever since I posted my list of forums I visit often, I have been daydreaming in these forums quite a bit, e.g. reading posts and book marketing interest materials, etc. It’s really kinda of addictive really. Before you know, the whole day had gone by and I accomplished nothing and wasted a day of my life.

And this cannot go on!

Here’s what I come up with.

1. Stick to your purpose. Usually I often visit a forum for a purpose, whether it’s to seek advice or post a reply. Stick to it closely and leave after that.
2. Limit the time spend at each forum. Set a time spend on each forum, 15 minute is a good guide to start with.
3. Get a life! This is my favorite tips, if you have enough real friends you won’t even want to spend time in forums.

So how did you prevent yourself from procrastinating?

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