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I have joined this Pay Per Post Forum on 28th December. This forum is call SizeofPaper, from what I have found, they offered the highest rate in the net. Below is the detail and proof of payment.

Here is the rate
Normal Members:
New Thread: 1cent plus 0.1cent per word up to 30 words
New Reply: 0.5cent plus 0.1cent per word up to 30 words
Someone replies in your thread: 0.1cents
First new post from your account every day: 1cent

Upgraded Members (recommended):
New Thread: 2cents plus 0.2cent per word up to 30 words
New Reply: 1cent plus 0.2cent per word up to 30 words
Someone replies in your thread: 0.1cent
First new post from your account every day: 1cent

You earn money by posting on these forum. Every post earns you some cents and if you start a thread and it gets some replies then you will also earn for every reply it gets. You can also earn for referrals. If you upgrade your account for $10 a month, you can earn double the amount of points for every post which meant your earnings will raise a lot faster

Just as a hint to you people who are thinking about upgrading. From the rate, it says you earn what a normal members but from what I’ve seen so far, the upgraded members do about 1/3 less posts and earn the same amount as a normal member so it’s almost triple the amount. I definitely recommend people to upgrade their account.

Sign up here, and starting earning money!

Forums are a popular way to get backlinks for a new website and introduce your site to a community related to the niche, but some promoters and SEOs get so caught up in the potential benefits that they end up annoying the forum community and creating a negative image for their brand.

The first key to successful promoting a website through forums is to review the rules and regulations of the forum, particularly as it related to links and signatures. Some forums don't even allow signature links, so don't waste your time here if your only purpose is to establish a link profile. Even if they do allow signature links, there may be limitations on what types of sites can be linked to, or there may be minimum posting requirements before such links are accepted. Paying close attention to the forum rules and following those guidelines is the essential first step.

Next, it is important to be familiar with the culture of the forum community in question. This can be achieved by spending even more time reading: not just the rules, but the actual threads where the membership interacts. Learn to spot common themes and inside jokes - and keep an eye out for the types of behavior and types of comments that create negative reactions from other posters. If certain topics (usually religion or politics) create a lot of frustration and arguments, try to avoid these topics with your own posts.

Lastly, try to keep links in the signature field provided. The only exception is when the forum thread specifically deals with a topic you've posted on. In that case, it could be acceptable to leave a link to your specific article or page that deals with the exact question raised in the forum thread. Excessively dropping unrelated links in the content of your forum post is a sure-fire way to get banned from most online communities.

Now, forum signature backlinks aren't exactly the most powerful for SEO purposes, but if you can establish yourself as a valued member of the forum community you're less likely to make enemies and more likely to build up a reputation as an expert in the niche. Be active, polite, and helpful, and you'll find that the benefits do exist.

Pamela Anderson popped out while performing her magician's assistant routine in Amsterdam yesterday.

The former Baywatch star wore a sparkling leoptard for the opening night of Dutch illusionist Hans Klok's magic show The Million Affair 2008 beurs Amsterdam.

But her barely-there outfit failed to contain her heaving bust as Pamela provided the show's on-stage eye-candy.

But Hans seemed pleased with Pam's revealing performance and showed his appreciation with a passionate snog.

The Import & Export feature in Blogger is now live and can be accessed from the Settings tab of your Blogger dashboard.

With "Export Blog," you can easily create a complete backup of your Blogger blog on to the hard drive and this may come handy in situations when you accidentally delete some old blog post or if Google blocks your blog due to policy violations - at least you’ll have a local copy of all the content that you may publish elsewhere.

Other that creating a safe backup, you may also use the export (followed by import) function to merge multiple blogs into one.

Important: The XML file created by Blogger is not compatible with external blogging platforms so if you like to move blogs from Blogger to WordPress, use the built-in import function available inside WordPress.

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While reading about Linux, randomly over the Internet cloud, I came across a news about a UK company specializing in tool and equipment hiring - Speedy Hire, which expects that switching from Linux to Windows will lead to a total savings of £1 million over five years (i.e. almost $A2.3 million). Microsoft has also published in a case study stating that Speedy Hire has junked the Linux and OpenOffice based systems running in its depots in favor of Windows and Microsoft Office. They found that personal computers were cheaper that required Windows XP Embedded OS using Citrix than the ones which required running Linux. But there still lies confusion when we talk of the hardware costs. You cannot save money by switching on Windows; unless you are running on very specialized software and hardware. It is comprehensible that standardizing on one system will bring vast cost savings.

So what can be the other possible areas where the company can make big savings? Speedy Hire expects to make it in support costs. It found the support cost of Linux to be expensive. The infrastructure manager James Fleming mentioned that they didn’t have enough good internal support resources and getting the support outsourced was expensive. In my opinion, would hiring a Red Hat Certified Engineer be costlier than hiring a Microsoft expert?

The other major question that was raised is the lack of automatic updates and security patches for the open source software. I, strongly believe in the fact that most of the major players have in-house Linux experience these days. Apart from this, it is not difficult to get consulting from major distributions like Red Hat, Ubuntu (canonical), etc. This of course is an internal matter of the management team as almost all the Linux companies offer a centralized management system. It might be that the company didn’t get a chance to gain suggestions from the key people who could have given better insights. This is not a failure of Linux, but lack of their internal management.

According to them, Microsoft solution has a competitive advantage as it costs less and is easier to maintain. The open source solution is more expensive as it requires more staff to maintain its functionality when compared to the solely Microsoft based solutions, which is integrated seamless solution from content creation to the user who’s viewing the content online.

Vis-Ã -vis, most Linux users get free support (community based), free upgrades, free bug fixes, free documentation and the top of all, free OS. They even need not pay a huge amount for enterprise Linux solutions or most of its accompanying software. The license for use is free of charge for Linux, i.e. you pay only for the installation costs and the enterprise support, while the software licensing costs of Windows was higher.

To sum up a few points, listed below are the key advantages and disadvantages of Linux over Windows:

Pros:

* Security.
* Better immunity to viruses and Spywares.
* Free upgrades.
* Open Source
* Perfect for multiple users - 100% FREE

Cons:

* Unlike Windows!
* Fairly advanced installation when it comes to servers and distro like Gentoo.
* Preferred by experienced people. Though noobs have started to use Linux vividly.

For a common man, the transformation from Linux to Windows would be a difficult decision because the knowledge workers would feel that the applications which are relied upon are so entrenched in Windows. Agreed, that Linux deployment requires utmost planning, but the usage of Windows has actually a never ending set of issues.

The cue here is to sell to those organizations which are excited about the usage of Linux in their organizations and have a lesser number of people who know how to work on Linux. There in lies a scope to develop a niche set of users and developers.

I am anxious to know how the company actually saves money and can meet the targets.