SPAM: We need your Debit Card PIN number

This mail is being circulated today. I recieved this mail to my yahoo account.

_Dear citibank_ _Client_,

This_ leter was seent by_the CITI_bank server to
veerify your _email_ adderss_.
You mmust clpemote this pcresos by clicking on_the_link
beelow and enttering in the smmall window your Citi-Bank
_Debit card number and PIN that you use_ in the Atm_Machine.
This is done - for_your pocrettion -T- becourse some of our
memmbers no lneogr have acescs to their email adredesss
and we must verify it.

(I removed the link here for Security reasons)
To veerify _your _EMAIL_ address and access your _Citibank
account, clik on_the_link beelow.

Kh8vHt1w

Check the spelling mistakes to avoid Yahoo spam blockers. But bad for them I am not a CitiBank customer :-)

Oracle: 10G - Wait is over

Oracle made 10G downloads available for both Solaris 64 bit and HP-UX. You can find the downloads here. The Register reports Price cut is on the way.

General: Look who is making money

From Register's IT giants criticised for running third world 'sweatshops'

In Thailand, a worker making hard drives for Dell is paid the equivalent of £2.50 per day. Michael Dell, the CEO of Dell, earned £134,000 per day last year.

Michael Dell is making (more than) 50 thousand times an ordinary employee in the company. May be he deserves it for building a company which provided employment for 39,100 :-)

J2SE: J2SE 1.5 Early Access on Dec15th?

Rick Ross mentioned J2SE 1.5 Early Access may be available by Dec 15th (Atmost by 22nd) on JavaLobby news posts here.

Here is the snippet of the news post:

On a completely separate note, we have been receiving a good deal of email lately asking for details on the upcoming early access release of the preliminary J2SE 1.5 binaries. I spoke today with the product line manager at Sun directly responsible for this, and she confirmed that they are pushing as hard as they can to get the release out the door for Javalobby members. The latest word is that the target date is December 15, but that in no case will it be later than December 22 when Sun begins its holiday break. The purpose of this early access release is for Javalobby members to help provide valuable testing and uncover and remaining bugs in the J2SE 1.5 code, so please keep in mind that this is PRE-RELEASE code and that you cannot expect it to be perfect. I'm excited that Sun is making this opportunity available exclusively to Javalobby members, so I hope you'll make the most of it and help improve Java in the process.

Note to Rick: Javalobby news emails are ending up in bulk folder for Yahoo users. You might want to do something about it. I read the news 2 days late while checking out bulk folder.

Java Desktop System is here

Java Desktop System is available for purchase at SUN's site. for $50. Check out the cool Looking Glass Demo by Jonathan Schwartz.



Also SUN made Solaris x86 Free. Download it here.

Location Services Based Blog. First post with my Motorola i88s.

Current Location is:
[344-467] NOVA ALBION WAY,SAN RAFAEL,CA - 94903.

This is blog entry is powered by Autodesk Location Services.

This is my first post using Blogger API.
Currently there are several serious limitations to use the API.
1. Auto Publish not working though publish is set to true.
2. No mechanism to set title for a Post.
Later tonight plannning on writing my own version of J2ME API for Blogger.