Paint.net 3.36 is still fresh. Get it from http://www.getpaint.net/download.html.

This is the new version of this amazing piece of imaging software. It’s free and it’s good. Here are the latest changes:

Improvements

• Effect rendering should be a little faster now.

Changes

• Implemented some changes to the “Add Noise” effect that were suggested by a forum member.
• The canvas background color is now always #c0c0c0.
• The auto-updater should now correctly detect .NET 3.5 and newer, which will help to save bandwidth when Paint.NET v4.0 is released (it will require .NET 3.5).

Fixes

• Paint.NET now works on a system that has the .NET 3.5 SP1 “Client Profile” installed.
• When zoomed in and the cursor is to the top-left of the image (negative coordinates), the ruler is now highlighted in the correct area.
• The effect rendering system no longer sets the “Tag” property on the configuration dialog.
• Some incorrectly authored plugins would cause a crash when loading their support details (author, copyright, etc.).
• There was a bug in the color wheel for IndirectUI that caused it to show the wrong values at initialization.
• There was a performance problem for effects that used the IndirectUI color wheel control.
• In some rare cases, Paint.NET would crash while shutting down.
• When using the “Fixed Ratio” feature of the Rectangle Selection tool, it would crash if 0 was specified for both the width and height.

If you have the need of a piece of SQL code to generate a password you can use this one:

declare @pw varchar(8)
declare @count int
declare @characterpool varchar(50)
set @characterpool = 'abcdefghijkmnpqrstuvwxyz0123456789'
set @count = 0
set @pw = ''
while @count <= 8
begin
set @pw = @pw + SUBSTRING(@characterpool,
CAST(ABS(CHECKSUM(NEWID()))*RAND(@count) as int)%LEN(@characterpool)+1,1)
set @count = @count + 1
end

This generates an eight digit password using the characters a-z and numbers. If you want you can change the length of the password by changing the ’8′ to the desired number in the lines:

declare @pw varchar(8)
while @count <= 8

Hope you find this useful.

Thanks to GM for the code.