Avoid emacs split window at startup

If the variable inhibit-startup-screen is non-nil, Emacs does not display the startup screen.

Set the setting in your .emacs file. 

(setq inhibit-startup-screen t)

Remote restart of a windows machine

ssh <user>@<host>

# restart with a force

shutdown -r -f  0

# possibly -t 0 instead of just 0

# show all and Windows process

ps -aW 

# kill the winlogon process ???

/bin/kill -f <pid>

Installing cygwin - which packages I choose

Every time I install cygwin, I struggle to remember which packages I select.  So here is that start of a list (which will get updated over time):

• emacs
• ssh
• ssl
• xdmcp
• wget
• bash
• ncurses
• inetutils
• rsync
• curl

Cygwin - setting up sshd as service

The following article goes through the process of setting up cygwin's sshd as a service:

How To Get SSH Command-Line Access to Windows 7 Using Cygwin

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/41560/how-to-get-ssh-command-line-access-to-windows-7-using-cygwin/

The short version:

• Install cygwin - include ssh
• Run terminal (as administrator)
• run ssh-host-config and go through questions
• Start service (either reboot or "net start sshd")

To uninstall the service, use the rollowing command:

cygrunsrv -R sshd

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Some additional notes for setting up on XP:

http://mugurel.sumanariu.ro/linux/steps-to-setting-up-cygwin-and-the-sshd-service-for-windows-xp/ 

Setting up client access to use keys instead of passwords:

http://www.teachmejoomla.net/code/misc/authentication-without-password-with-ssh-and-rsync.html