Make Money Fast on Facebook !!!! Even if you're retarded!!!

There are an awful lot of links down the right hand side of Facebook for 'Making Money Fast!!!!', or whatever. They all seem to be pretty much the same. Google is going to pay you $$$$!!!! for posting links. Why didn't I think of that! Perhaps it's because I don't TYPE EVERYTHING IN CAPITALS AND USE LOTS OF EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't say for certain, because I'm not daft enough to sign up, but I think that you essentially get some info on how Google AdSense works and how to sign up for it. The sneaky (dishonest, in my mind) is that you have to send $1 (some small amount anyway) for this info. Of course this is just to cover shipping and handling, it's not trying to rip you off for $1 is it? That would be silly. No, they're looking to rip you off for somewhere bewteen $25 - $40 a month until you spot the transaction on your credit card. There is always somewhere on the payment page, a tiny paragraph telling you that the $1 is a promotional fee for joining their club. Thereafter you get stung for the monthly $$$ until you opt-out.

I've got a funny feeling that opting out won't be as easy as opting in! And guess what, it won't be you making the $$$$$!!!!!!! out of Google scams.

M&S Clothing for deformed childern

Looks like M&S are trying to attract a hitherto ignored market segment.

Changing ports on Oracle 10g

I'm trying to get a VM setup for HP Quality Center (QC) and I've installed Oracle 10g XE as the database. Unfortunately QC uses port 8080 and so does 10g XE. Luckily, I found this snippet on how to change the port on 10g XE using sqlplus:-

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Tue Aug 26 10:40:44 2008

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SQL> connect
Enter user-name: system
Enter password: <enter password if will not be visible>
Connected.
SQL> Exec DBMS_XDB.SETHTTPPORT(9090); [Assuming you want to have HTTP going to this port]

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL>quit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production

Lovely! Didn't have to fiddle about in the internal of QC. Always something to be avoided if at all possible!