Want To Make Money But No Idea How?

megaspender

How should I go about finding the work on bingo site? Does anyone know of any legitimate freelance site (admin,data entry etc)

Browntoa

mark, that is your own shop from which you earn and is not allowed on here (hence the reason the link goes to !!!!!!!!!!! )

I've asked abuse to look at the post

American_Bob

Hello all,

I had an idea for some money which may I was wondering what you thought...

I have been installing various types of Linux on old PCs for some time now - about 5 years or so. I have also been teaching people how to transfer the "old" way they did things on Windows to how Linux does things.

For those of you who don't know about Linux, see below.*

Linux used to be - quite frankly - a huge pain to use. It was clunky, and instead of clicking here or there to do things you had to type loads and loads of things.

Now it runs quite similarly to Windows or OSX and can be installed on computers at the same time which have these systems without erasing whatever old OS you prefer. You can use Linux AND Windows/Mac systems on the same computer - or even run Windows and 2 or 3 different types of Linux on the same PC if you have the hard-drive space!

However, it does not run EXACTLY the same way. There are several differences - some are simpler and faster than the way Windows does things like installing software or keeping your software up-to-date. Somethings are more labour intensive - like getting new hardware to work which has no Linux drivers, or getting wireless internet connections working.

This is where I come in. I have installed Linux on many PCs over the years, and even taught my technophobe wife how to use Linux. She still has XP on her PC (mainly for her Role-playing game problem! Hahah), but uses Linux almost exclusively.

I want to set up a local consultation if you like in my area.
I would install whichever version of Linux you prefer - and help determine which is best for you if you had no knowledge about this whatsoever.
I would then take some time - say an additional hour (two?) to show how to be productive, keep the software up-to-date, how to run Windows software from Linux (games, etc.) if desired, how to install software etc.

This would be at a reasonable cost - throwing this into the crowd: £50 say?
£25 to chose and install Linux at about an hour to ensure the software is running, another hour to instruct and answer questions.

I would also run an email, phone and site-based consultancy if any problems, questions, or queries came up. This would be FAR cheaper as the whole point is teaching the client how to be SELF-sufficent: how to find the answers easily online or in the built-in documentation, or to simply understand the system so the problems simply didn't come up.

Say: £1 for email or phone queries, £10 for site visit (per hour or part thereof)?

What do you all think?
Too steep?
Too cheap?
No market?
I'm mad to even try this?

Let me know!

The possibility of turning all those old, dusty unused decade-old machines into actual working USABLE PCs for no extra hardware cost would also stop local landfills being stuffed full of perfectly good PCs! Just because someone needs us to keep buying more and more hardware and software to keep doing the things we were doing 5 or 10 years ago just fine on our old PCs, doesn't mean we have to oblige them! I guess I just got tired of changing operating systems every 5 years just to keep doing the same things I was doing before!

Thanks,
American Bob

* Linux is an operating system - like Windows XP, Vista, or Mac OS X. The main difference is this: everything about it is completely free of charge.

The operating system (like XP or Vista itself) costs nothing.
However: upgrades also cost nothing,
SOFTWARE costs nothing - and I mean LEGAL software is free.

This would be the equivalent of getting Microsoft Office (actually - your choice of 5 or 6 different competing office packages, and you pick which one you are most comfortable with), all the games you could ever want, video, DTP software, Video or audio recording studio software, whatever you want completely free... and legal. No shareware, no pirated programs.

There are many different varieties of Linux. This is because everything is completely customisable - with some effort.
Some are quite large with lots of bells and whistles, and some are very minimalist in nature and appearance for older computers or even phones and games consoles. Some are based on previous older versions customised to fit some strange personal whim. Some are based on "packages" or traditional programs which are installed, and some (claiming to be more efficient) actually download the actual code used to MAKE the packages and builds them from scratch every time software is installed!

Linux has no issues with security and viruses - none currently exist - and Linux is competely firewalled from the moment it is installed.

Linux also is vastly more efficient. My current home PC is a nine year-old PC which had Windows ME on it when I bought it - and which had completely failed. It has a 9 year old graphics card, and a 6 year-old sound card. It has 320 MB of memory and contains a 40 GB and a 20 GB HDD.

I use it as a studio-quality recording studio for my band. I can happily play Unreal Tournament 2004 on it.

It cost me NOTHING from Freecycle.
Not a penny - except an old monitor sitting around which I now use, which someone sold to me at a boot sale for a tenner! It worked competely flawlessly from the moment I formatted the hard drive and installed Linux and all the software was completely updated to current and bug-free in less that 10 minutes after I booted it up.

Any system which can use decade-old hardware for free, costs nothing and has no security issues EVER is alright by my book. A free PC in the broadest possible sense!

YoungBean

I have been earning money the hard way!
Working my bottom off. Well....ish!
Work Mon-Fri at a Marketing Company where my normal hours are about 8.30am to 6pm, maybes later...then 3 nights a week I clean for a nursery aswell.
Any extra money I can earn is always a bonus!!

A_little_stressed!!

I don't think most people here are looking to make 'easy' money as in something for nothing, more a way or earning that will fit in with thier life - flexible, can do with the kids, can do in the middle of the night (oh-er missus!) or can be done by someone not mobile.

Good luck every1!

Browntoa

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Brabbit

Hi all,

Currently a uni student looking for some extra fundage. I'm pretty good with the Office package i.e. Excel, powerpoint, word and have a pretty good typing speed. Anyone know of a data entry or something along those lines, I can do from home during the night. So i can study as well as get some earning. In general I'm good with IT so anything down those linse that anyone can suggest would be awesome.

Diners

Hi
Is there anyone who still does the bingo moderators jobs as that sounds like an excellent idea. If you could pm me please with more info i would be very grateful

Di

sew109

I decided that I needed to make more money about 2 years ago and joined a multi level marketing scheme selling telecoms and home fuel Ijust want to say although it was listed on the LSE Ithought it basically a SCAM and a complete waste of my time. I learnt though that its never worth tryingto join anything that requires you to sign other people up to make more income.