programming

It's hard to make a truly objective comparison between something you have persuaded yourself is worth £643.90 (£1,212.60 for full version) and something you can get for nothing. Well GIMP will do pretty much anything you might need in terms of image manipulation but Photoshop will do a few more things. See:
Google search for comparisons

Photoshop

GIMP

We inherited an Aga when we moved into our house; it used to be coke fired but had been converted to gas. Generally speaking it's great and I enjoy cooking on it (and it heats our water for us) BUT it uses a lot of gas.

This scheme uses an arduino type microprocessor with a servo to turn the temperature control right down at night and during the day. The Aga takes about three hours to heat up or cool down but I reckon it must be saving quite a bit of gas (data to appear here when I have collected and analysed it!)

here's a video showing what it does after a bit of basic coding. The next stage will be to include audio input with fourier analysis to set the seed variable, key and beat.

see also
http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ArduinoISP
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Hacking/Programmer

1. Upload the ArduinoISP sketch (in Examples/ArduinoISP) as per usual to the Arduino board via the USB or serial.

2. Change Arduino to manual as opposed to auto-reset (I have used a seeeduino with a little switch to allow this).

3a. Log out of the IDE
3b. In (Windows) C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Arduino\preferences.txt change the line
upload.using = bootloader
to
upload.using = arduinoisp

4. Wire the proper Arduino --> stripped_down_arduino
5V --> 5V

letter to McAfee after they unilaterally renewed

Hi

I spoke to someone over the phone about your 'automatic' renewal system. I explained that I thought your practice was sailing very close to the wind, if not actually illegal. I realise that everyone (including me) has agreed to your end user license however the options for buying the software without the automatic renewal were not clear.

Here's a link to open the TowerDefense Flash application in another window.

here's an example of the kinds of things you can do with Action Script 3. I have used FlashDevelop and PaperVision3D which are both open source. (Here's another example too)

here is a listing of the php script to copy a directory structure and prefix all the tables (you need to register to see it):

I have used webERP on my own site www.eldwick.org.uk, more as an example of what can be done with online databases than for real. However I decided that I might as well put my money where my mouth is and start using it for my own accounts. Also I wanted to suggest it for routine accounts for an organisation I do some work for www.wwoof.org but both locations are on shared hosts and both have limited MySQL db allocations.

There are various problems and alternative solutions to getting a dynamic site running from CD (or hard disk) This is just one..