> It's a bit sad that it has become less possible to "bootstrap"  
> yourself into microcontrollers based on your PC and parts from a junk  
> drawer, but...  With $30 "real" tools (PicKit, Butterfly, Arduino,  
> "USB Sticks" from several vendors), it's really not necessary any more.

except for some higher-end uC that have an USB bootloader (IIRC Atmel 
ARMs) But the package is not exactly newbie-frendly..

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