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Believe it or not, we finally traced the port number and service using fport for windows to kontiki.com. They sneak their “marketing tool” in with bundled software and use your Internet connection to push out ads, files and who knows what else. Of course it’s all legal according to the license terms.

http://www.kontiki.com/client/terms.html

But just because it’s legal doesn’t mean it’s right. It pisses me off, wastes my time and can’t possibly be good business. Check out the following for more information:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,365073,00.asp

The best part was at the end. We blew the power in the place. Very suiting for our last show. The whole strip mall was blacked out and the owners asked everyone to settle up their tab and get out. 10 minutes later, the lights went out, we were done with our last show and the parking lot had no lights even to light the way for the poor power technicians who were already on the call.

Don’t know if the power outage was our fault, but I’d like to think so. Go out with a bang.

Our whiteboard was appropriately dressed:

So I found hexameter.com was still available so I spent the $7 to get it and been playing around with a really, really simple artsy type layout just to blow off some minimalism steam.

*shrug*

It’s from the xmethods website which has a list of web services, some work, others don’t.

Got rid of evolution. Love it, but it’s not GTK2 yet. The GTK2 beta is too unstable. It’s a shame because GTK2 rules.

Got some more functionality working on my side project “backUplink” which is a utility for Introversion’s hacking game “Uplink”. It backs up your character so you don’t lose your entire character. Very close to done.

Read on to see the Java source code to an Application Preferences storage class.

Here’s ConfigWorker.java. It reads and writes persistent storage which can be used to save app preferences/configurations. Like: “user’s last swear word = crapfully”. That way, the app knows what the user’s last swear word was when the app is started again (this is the persistance). :)

Package below needs to be changed if you want to use it (unless you like com.squarism …), make an empty file what is listed, run the main unit class and see how it works.

/*
 * Created on Apr 12, 2003
 *
 */
package com.squarism.backUplink;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Properties;

/**
 * @author chris
 *
 */
public class ConfigWorker {

	private File configFile;

	/**
	 * @param string
	 */
	public ConfigWorker(String string) {
		configFile = new File(string);;
	}

	/**
	 * @param string
	 * @param string2
	 */
	public void writeConfig(String string, String string2) {
		Properties props = new Properties();
		try {
			props.load(new FileInputStream(configFile));
			props.setProperty(string, string2);
			//props.list(new PrintStream(new FileOutputStream(configFile)));
			props.store(new FileOutputStream(configFile), "header");
		} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

	/**
	 * @return Properties object
	 */
	public Properties readConfig() {
		Properties props = new Properties();
		try {
			props.load(new FileInputStream(configFile));
		} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

		if (! props.isEmpty()){
			return props;
		}

		return null;
	}

	/**
	 * Dirty Unit Test
	 * @param args
	 */

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		ConfigWorker configWorker;
		configWorker = new ConfigWorker("BackUplink.properties");
		configWorker.writeConfig("fileToMonitor", "/tmp/aFileToMonitor");
	}
}

Works fairly well. Be sure to change file paths and the like. Your mileage may vary.