I read an old lifehacker article on wake-on-lan the other day and decided I should try it on my home network. After using the free tool Magic Packet Sender mentioned in the article successfully, I thought how cool would it be to start my media server from my xbox. I …

rxvt is so much more better than the default cygwin terminal. You will thank me once you switch to using rxvt. To get rxvt working without starting an X Server, just create a shortcut using the following -

C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -fg green -bg black -fn "Lucida Console-14" -e …