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Look ma, two OSes, one Desktop (and I ain’t talking Cygwin cheese either…):

Yes yes… I know you’re scared… let the VM frenzy begin!

If you have ever been chez nous, you’ve probably noticed that I’m really into video game music. In particular, the OverClocked Remix project: a gathering of musicians worldwide dedicated to making video game remixes.

OC Remix isn’t new–the community has been releasing content for years now. Did I mention all of this is free? Check out the compilations and albums they’ve got for download (I can get over 1MB/sec downstream via the torrents on their page). Most releases come as MP3s and fully lossless FLAC or WAV for ear-bursting glories.

If you’ve played Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, the soundtrack was created by OC Remix artists (I bought this game for XBox360 Live Arcade and came to the sad realisation that my aged reflexes can no longer pull of Hadoukens with the best of ‘em…).

Here are a few albums and tracks which I have particularly enjoyed in recent years:

Album	Listen!	Released
Kirby’s Adventure: Rise of the Star	Free Breezin’ – Theme of Son of Wind	2005
Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream	Full Frontal Assault (Let the Battles Begin!) Nomura Limit (Fight On!)	2007
Super Street Fighter II Turbo: Blood on the Asphalt	Mercenary Boxing (Balrog Stage)	2007
Doom II: Delta-Q-Delta	MAP08: The Duel (The Dave D. Taylor Blues)	2008

In order to install openssh server correctly for Windows 7, you will need to do the following:

1. Install Cygwin in the normal way. Make sure you’ve got openssh and cygrunsrv as selected packages to install.
2. Right-click the Cygwin shell icon, and Run as administrator.
3. Run ssh-host-config. Follow the prompts carefully: if needed, it will tell you which permissions you need to set and where. Remember to say yes to privilege separation: it will create a user for you called cyg_runsrv which all cygwin services will run under in Windows 7.
4. You should be able to start the service using cygrunsrv –-start sshd, or by starting it as a normal service under Administrative Tools > Services.
5. This does not automatically create and open firewall rules, so you will have to do this manually.