As long as you understand how to work it out its a good way to skip all the calculations.

Apart from an occasional lag its pretty decent.

It won't solve much, just wastes more money.

That is why you make sizes of various multiple sizes in pixel resolution. Depending what platform you are going for there are applications that can do this for you, however keep in mind that stretchin ...

It won't get banned as long as your offline but the moment you do go online with stealth on, you will get banned within hours/days. Its unavoidable.

A home made probe and a simple switch.

via chipset 6421a will cost around 6 and thats all unless its a liteon which requires something like a needle or a screwdriver to use as a probe. Basically this is the cheapest way.

To be honest because you are new with little or no experience I would not start with a project like this as it will require a lot of knowledge. If you do want to give it a go, pick a language I would ...

Xbox backup creator, Imgburn and any other burning/ripping applications.

I think you should teach people how lets say 0001 is 1 and why 00000001 is also 1 and how to convert numbers to binary without using a calculator.