Use Google Search While Collecting Bing Rewards

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Icyfish

Wanna collect Bing rewards? Also wanna stick with Google Search? This extension is the right tool for you. It lets you use Google Search while collecting Bing rewards.

Basically, when you search from omnibox or from Google website, this extension will send a search request to bing in the background for you. The search results are from Google and the rewards are added to your Bing account.

The benefit is that it will not be treated as a robot or invalid search because the searching behavior is exactly the same as yours.

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RAID on the Cheap: Windows 7 Software RAID vs. inexpensive “fake RAID” at Kevin’s Blog

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Icyfish

spinning the seattleites

via RAID on the Cheap: Windows 7 Software RAID vs. inexpensive “fake RAID” at Kevin’s Blog.

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Genius-Field Database Connection Pool API 0.2(RC) Release

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Icyfish

0.2-rc (2009-10-19)
New features:
Add a new method which can load properties from a variable instead of from a file

Download dbcp-0.2-rc

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Genius-Field Database Connection Pool API 0.2(beta) Release

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Icyfish

0.2-beta (2009-10-08)
Bugfixes and minor changes:
Fix an error which may throw IllegalMonitorStateException

Download dbcp-0.2-beta

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Use Eclipse+SVN to Do Team Work

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Icyfish

Subversion is an open source version control system. It will make you safe and efficient to do collaboration work with your team members. We use eclipse plugin Subversive to integrate SVN to eclipse platform.
Here we use eclipse 3.5.1+Subversive 0.7.8. Continue reading →

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Genius-Field Database Connection Pool API 0.2(alpha) Release

Posted on September 7, 2009 by Icyfish

We are glad to inform you that our new version of Genius-Field Database Connection Pool is released. From now on, we will post the change logs here as well as the jar distribution and put other stuff on Google Code. You may visit here.

0.2-dev (2009-09-03)
New features:
Initial release
0.2-alpha (2009-09-07)
Bugfixes and minor changes:
Compatible with JDK 1.5

0.2-dev (2009-09-03)

New features:

Initial release

Download dbcp-0.2-dev

0.2-alpha (2009-09-07)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

Compatible with JDK 1.5

Download dbcp-0.2-alpha

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New Genius-Field Database Connection Pool API Coming Soon

Posted on August 1, 2009 by Icyfish

We are developing new version of Genius-Field Database Connection Pool in order to make it more stable and efficient. In the new version, the entire structure will be changed and it hopefully will be easy to use and easy to control.

We are not going to make any updates for the old API and the new version will be open-source and hosted on Google Code under GNU General Public License v3. We have already created the project home on Google Code, but nothing in it. You may visit here if you like. There is no ETA for the new version release. We will make announcement when it arrives.

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Basic Knowledge of Cygwin

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Icyfish

Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It is something like a Linux simulator, but actually it is NOT. Cygwin is not a way to run native linux apps on Windows. You have to rebuild your application from source if you want it to run on Windows. Cygwin is not a way to magically make native Windows apps aware of UNIX ® functionality, like signals, ptys, etc. Again, you need to build your apps from source if you want to take advantage of Cygwin functionality.

Because it is simple to use and you don’t need to install a real Linux on your computer, it is widely used for Windows user. The most common situation to use Cygwin is when you want to use g++ in Windows. Continue reading →

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Genius-Field Database Connection Pool API 0.1 Release

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Icyfish

New features:
Allow user to release all conns at one time
Allow user to watch some basic status of the connection pool
Allow user to manually drop a conn if it works abnormally

Bugfixes and minor changes:
Fix the number of conns may be less than the minimum requirement

Download sql-01

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Further study on duplicate elements of HashSet

Posted on April 22, 2009 by Icyfish

In mathematics, it is trivial to check duplicate elements because the properties of an element are simple. It may just contain numbers, letters, and colors and so on. However, it is complicated to check whether two elements (objects) are the “same” in computer programming.
In Java language, the Set interface is defined as “A collection that contains no duplicate elements. More formally, sets contain no pair of elements e1 and e2 such that e1.equals(e2), and at most one null element”. The HashSet class implements the Set interface. How does it check? Does it really use equals method? Let’s have a look. Continue reading →

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