from now on, January 18 "Thiago Macieira Appreciation Day".

No, I'm not going to even try to install that piece of crap. It's a shame that after so many years the OpenJDK is still so useless. In this state of affairs, for me Java is dead and buried. In all respects.

That's why people keeps their diamonds in safe-deposit boxes, you fool.

"A $150 Camera vs. a $5,000 Camera" http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/150-vs-5000-dollar-camera.htm

but I haven't yet finished fine tuning my new and shiny Kubuntu installation.

I'm very happy using Mikrotik (mikrotik.com) products. You can buy a ~49$ license and install their software -RouterOS, a Linux derivative- on an old PC. You can also get one of their hardware products (routerboard.com), excellent choice if you care about power consumption. I highly recommend the RB750G wich is a small SOHO router in a nice plastic case. With RouterOS you can do a whole lot of interesting things, monitoring bandwidth usage is just one of these things.

the Openwall website groans and moans imploring for a facelift. it's so poignant..

Not so anonymous, though: http://i53.tinypic.com/faa61k.png

A statically linked app written in C++, with Trolltech's Qt4.4 + SQLite3 support will do the trick. If the statically linked binary results too big, just shrink it with UPX, or install the dynamically linked dlls with the app.