[quote user="BlueKnot"]If the try block fails, but doesn't actually throw any kind of exception whatsoever, it goes 'BOOM'? [/quote] AFAIK, a parameterless catch block handles exceptions that are not derived from System.Exception.

[quote user="strcmp"]you have to declare the variables volatile for that to happen[/quote] How do you know they aren't declared volatile in that snippet?

WTF-y possible workaround for #3: when your code is called, move some of the 3rd party data off-chip and use that memory. Just re-load that data before returning. Depending on how much memory access your function does, it might well be faster than putting your stuff off-chip.

[quote user="Carnildo"]Last time I checked, PrtScr was still missing two features that screen capture programs usually provide: screenshots of a selected region of the screen, and screenshots saved directly to disk.[/quote] Also the option to include the mouse cursor in the screenshot. Using...

[quote user="AccessGuru"] Well, if you ever wanted to move to a database, at least orders.inc should be easy to parse and convert to SQL insert statements. The biggest problem with this is the memory usage and lack of concurrent reading/writing. I don't think it's horrible, if you think...

[quote user="morbiuswilters"] It's a site about technical blunders running very WTFy forum software. To not exploit it for amusement and profit would be wrong. [/quote] Agreed. Coincidentally, if you type a capital T in the tag field, it auto-completes TABLE_CAT . Release shift and you...

Wow- this really reminds me of the community server reply page! However, things actually improved. This page has only 147kb. And the "automatic tag completion" seems quite fast now.

[quote user="Iago"] Does all the text really have a pale outline, or is it just that your camera is "helpfully" trying to "enhance" the picture? (These haloes and suchlike are painfully common these days. Most people seem not to notice them, but once you start, you'll...

[quote] < center >< center >< center >< center >< center >< center >< center >< center > < center >< center > < p align = "left" > [/quote] ...used repeatedly throughout the page, especially later on. In the last 1/8 of the source...

"PC Chips"... anything like buffalo chips? [quote user="jspenguin"] Gimme Info Realtime information display! Simply hit the F9 key, users can find the information about CPU, Motherboard model, BIOS version, Memory type & size, Devices,....etc, and tune the system in the quickest...