Using Ads to get free DropBox storage space.

(I did not "invent" this idea, someone told me about it. I figure you'll be interested in the experience, it was rather surprising for me.) Google makes money on ads, oodles and oodles of it. Up until today, I never "understood" the value of ads.  Today, I got a chance to use ads, here is my story: Dropbox is a storage service, if your friend signs up by clicking your referral URL, both you and your friend get 250MB of free storage up to 8GB of storage. This means if you can get 32 (8GB/250MB) friends to sign up you get lots of free storage. As you can imagine, I don't have 32 friends,...

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Using WinDBG/CDB and SOS to find a thread given a ManagedThreadId

CDB and SOS have more power than most people realize, I’ll use this post to show some some handy cdb/sos tricks while at the same answering the simple question of which thread a ManagedThreadId maps to. At the end of this post you’ll be able to: Map a ManagedThreadId to the correct thread ordinal Use CDB to convert from decimal to hex Pipe CDB commands through pipeline commands like findstr Full source for the simple app below can be found here. In the below app we want to figure which thread we’re running on so we can inspect the stack. internal class Program { ...

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