Get Great Free Music at 8bitcollective - 8bc.org

8bitcollective is an online chiptune media sharing site. What is is chiptune you ask? Basically, it is Nintendo or gaming console music (Wikipedia has a more in-depth explanation). It is old school greatness! Who doesn't love listening to some Super Mario Bros every once in a while? Yes. This is music for geeks.

8bit collective is a site dedicated to people who are still creating this music and sharing it with one another. The site has thousands and thousands of free songs. Most of them are not that great, but every once in a while you will come across a song that is amazing. I suggest going to the site about once a month and checking out the "most liked" music on the right side of the home page.

Check out some of my favorite songs from the site:

8 Bit Collective

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How to do HDR photography with a single image

HDR photography is done using 3 or more bracketed images. There are some instances though where taking three bracketed photos is not possible; for instance, action shots. In this tutorial I will show you what you can do if you only have one photo to work with.

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Gimp Resynthesizer Explained - Texture Transfer and Input and Output

Note:
As was mentioned in a comment on this post, Resynthesizer no longer does what this blog suggests; if you want the functions shown in this blog, please use Filters > Enhance > Heal selection Click here for the tutorial.

In a previous post I talked a bit about the Gimp plugin Resynthesizer. Someone posted a comment asking for a bit more explanation; more specifically, what the elements of the plugin mean. This actually is not easy to find out. The Resynthesizer website shows what the program can do, but does not really say how. It took me a while to figure it out, but I finally did and will be showing all of the ins and outs of the Resynthesizer plugin.

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Get-WinEvent, EventLogs, ETL, Providers on Win7

'Get-WinEvent' in Powerhsell 2 when combined with ETL on Windows 7 allows exceptional event log queries. This function allows the administrator to create an array of all Event Logs and sort by 'time created' all those records created in the last (1) day:



function global:LatestLogEntries
{
   [CmdletBinding()]
   Param(
       [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipeline=$true)]
       [int32] $param1,
       [string] $ErrorActionPreference="silentlycontinue"
            )


$LogNames=(Get-Winevent -listlog  * )
$goback = (get-date) - (new-timespan -days $param1 )
$LogNames | % {get-winevent -FilterHashTable  @{LogName=$_.LogName;StartTime=$goback}}
}

 LatestLogEntries 1 | sort -descending -property TimeCreated | ft -auto TimeCreated,LogName,ProviderName,RecordID,Message | more

There are over six hundred providers shipped with Windows 7. This function chooses all those providers nominally relevant to Network,Security, and IP and allows the administrator to sort by 'time created' the maximum amount of entries specified:

function global:NetSecIP_Entries

{

   [CmdletBinding()]

   Param(

       [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipeline=$true)]

       [int32] $param1,

       [string] $ErrorActionPreference="silentlycontinue"

            )

$Providers=Get-WinEvent -ListProviders *

$NetworkSecIP_Providers= $Providers | % {$_.Name} | findstr "Network Sec IP"

foreach ($provider_message in $NetworkSecIP_Providers) {get-winevent -max $param1 -provider $provider_message}

}

 NetSecIP_Entries 20 | sort -descending -property TimeCreated | ft -auto TimeCreated,LogName,ProviderName,RecordID,Message | more

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Tip of The Day - Subscribing to RSS Feeds

If you use the Internet for more than 1 minute a year, then chances are, you have seen an icon that says "RSS" or "Feed." These pretty icons are intended to make our lives easier. Most of us have websites or news that we like to read every day. We may go to many many different websites every day to stay updated on what is going on. Wouldn't it be easier if we could do that with a single page? There is! That is what the pretty RSS button is for. If you have never used it, you should. I will show you how.

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Tip of The Day - Removing labels or glue with WD-40

For this tip of the day I am going to talk about two of my favorite things in the universe. WD-40 and hydrogen peroxide. They both have about a million uses and they are pretty cheap. I will be showing why WD-40 is amazing for removing glue or labels.

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Wanted: Incident Handler in Michigan

Do you know how to detect and respond to intruders in a multinational organization? Do you want to join a team with that mission? Are you an experienced information security professional who is looking for a challenge? If your answer to these three questions is yes, please consider applying for the last open Incident Handler role in GE-CIRT. In this role you will mentor intermediate and junior CIRT members and work with some of the best detection and response staff in the world.

The role is located at our Advanced Manufacturing & Software Technology Center in located at Visteon Village, Van Buren Township, Michigan. By the end of the month, 19 of my team (about half of GE-CIRT) will be located there. (I have 2 new hires arriving within the next two weeks.) In addition to normal operations there, our extended team meets at the AMSTC facility regularly for training and planning sessions.

If you would like more information on the role, apply for job 1259804 and I will review your resume. Please read the qualifications carefully -- I'm looking for an experienced person for this role. Thank you.

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