unison on win

first get gtk+ runtime libs.

then get unison.

tested on winxp32 and win7x64.

EDIT: latest redist package: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/ResultsForProduct.aspx?productID=23947d52-b2bc-4e88-8c51-e81dc2905b0d&stype=n_a2z

mp

For Win7x64: foobar2000 http://www.foobar2000.org
For Linux: mplayer, for a lack of anything better (rythmbox and the one from KDE never impressed me)
For both: vlc for video

openvpn

great doc on how to configure a bridged openvpn server on ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenVPN

pmp

Got a Cowon D2+ 16GB. It seems picky about mp3 tags and "bad" tags make it show up Unknown for everything under the Music Library even if only some of them are bad. Sometimes though, like 1 in 10 tries, it showed most of them correctly. This is a real pita and I though the thing was broken at first.

Using foobar2000 or mp3tag we can retag mp3 files correctly. Using only APEv2 seems fine.

I did not have any problem with flac files.

I should soon upload some ogg files in it and see if there's any problem.

audio ripz and burnz

For Win7x64;
Exact Audio Copy.
Configure to detect drive feature, offset.
Alt-G for freedb download.
F4 to detect pretrack gaps.
Make cue sheet with one FLAC file for entire album (action -> cue sheet... -> compressed)
Verify AccurateRip results.

Open cue sheet file with Foobar2000.
Right-click Convert... to convert to multiple ogg files. (how to normalize?)

Now we can use cue/flac to play at home or make copies and ogg to put on portable media player.

Sadly, foobar2000 doesn't seem to have a decent writer component (it lacks CD-TEXT support). To make gapless audio copies of cue/flac, use maybe burrrn.net or cdrtools. Infrarecorder gives errors about last track length (?). cdrtfe is a nice frontend and the setup file includes common decoders (but can't make Data DVDs AFAIK).

EAC does not produce a correct cue sheet file when using compressed image (says type is WAVE). Foobar2000 doesn't seem to mind but ironically, EAC's write feature can't deal with it.

msvcp win7

Apparemment que ce certain DLL est souvent répandu par l'entremise de différents logiciels, car il n'est pas installé avec des packages de runtime ou whatever. Ça pas l'air clair à savoir si les gens qui distribuent leurs programmes compilés doivent inclure ou pas cette bibliothèque.

On peut avoir besoin de différentes versions de cette dernière, mais j'ai trouvé les fichiers pour 6.0, 7.0, 7.1, 8.0 et 9.0 en faisant une recherche sur mon disque entier et sur un backup de XP.

On dirait que les programmes en ayant besoin sont capricieux et le veulent dans leur root folder. Peut-être avec regsvr32?