Errrm.. hehe

Scandals...I think we all know what that word means. Something juicy and interesting yet not one we usually want to accept in public that we know about. 

But here is another meaning. This seemed so interesting when i first came to know about it that I wanted to share with you all.

Speciated by CANcer Development AnimaL - SCANDAL

  First it came to some scientists as a theoretical possibility that transmissible cancer **1 cell might give rise to new kind of life. **2
  Recently, some biologists who use genetic analysis to know more about the world of the living say that they may have found the first candidate for such a 'scandal'!! yes

 There is this 200 or so types of certain parasites that live part of their lives in the cells of fish and the other part in some worms which seem to have exceptionally small size gene pool. To explain that scientists are testing this 'scandal' hypothesis as a possible explanation.

**1 transmissible cancer... Tasmanian Devils suffer from such a cancer. it looks like tumors on nose.

**2 This idea first came when genetic analysis of certain parasites showed that they had genes in them found in complex tissue of higher complexity/level lives. How did those genes came in them..may bethis way..

Interesting .. haan ?



Thaks for reading.

Hello, My name is Gregory and I'am from Poland. I know this forum from another site (gigarocket.net).
I like to learn new things in technology especially hosting and VPS.
Thanks for your time!

Hello Friends, I am going to share a tutorial. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to install MyBB forum on a VPS running ubuntu. Most of you know about setting up basic lamp stack. So I am not going to explain it. If anyone of you faces any problem during the lamp stack installation feel free to post a reply.

Here is a simple guide regarding the installation of the lamp stack. ( Necessary for web host ).
What is the lamp stack?

These are some packages required for web-host on a server. These are Apache, Mysql, Php, and Phpmyadmin.
These packages have different functions

Apache: It helps us to host a website on a private server.
MySql: It is a database server. It helps us to store website data.
Php: It is also an application that helps to read PHP codes for your website. Some of the web applications are in PHP that’s why it is necessary
PhpMyAdmin: It is used to manage the databases.

To Install of these necessary packages use the following commands.

Apache



MySQL Server



PHP



PhpMyAdmin




Note: During this installation MySQL and PhpMyadmin require a password. You will have to enter a password to access the database.

Alright we are done. We are ready to install MyBB forum script on our linux server.

First of all, we will have to download the MyBB latest version. So I will go to the directory where I will install MyBB. Most of the website's data are in /var/www/ . So I shall create a new directory in this directory



now create a new directory under /var/www



We have successfully created a new directory named as “ MyBB “ Now we have to download the latest available version of MyBB.



To download



When the download is done.We have to unzip the downloaded file.The file will be named as “ mybb_1821 “ (currently available version, may be different in future ).

You can unzip with the simple “ unzip “ command.



Note: You must have to install unzip the package.


When unzip is completed, We will have to edit the website configuration. We are using apahce2 webserver and it stores the configuration files in the directory “ /etc/apache2/sites-available “
We will have to create a new configuration for MyBB forum in this directory. So use the following command.



When you will edit it will be a new empty .conf file. We have to enter the configuration.



In the configuration file, we mostly change the ServerName and the DocumentRoot.The ServerName is the name of your domain and The DocumentRoot is the directory to your MyBB files. I have downloaded the MyBB in the directory “ /var/www/mybb “ so I will simply change the documentroot.When you are done hit the “ CTRL + O “ key to save the file and then “ CTRL + X “ to exit the editing mode.

Now we have to enable the newly configured site.So apache2’s command to enable a site is “ a2ensite “



Now apache will require a restart. Use



Apache configuration is done lets check the status now



You will get the following output if everything is fine



Now visit your site in a browser and complete the installation. Now we have to complete MyBB installations.We need a database to store the data. So create a new database with the help of PhpMyAdmin.

You can log in to your phpmyadmin panel at the link




Login with your details ( we entered during the installation of these packages ) and create a new database.

Now let’s complete the installation

Visit your site with your browser.

On the first page you will have a welcome message by MyBB. Read the given information carefully and click “ Next “
On the second page when you click next you will be redirected to license agreement page. Read their terms and click “Next”

They will redirect you to New page. In this page, they will check your requirements. Make sure all the required packages are done. If all the packages are done Click “Next” to continue the process.

After checking the requirements they will ask about database information. 
There are several forms to be filled.

Quote:Database Engine: We have to select “ MySQL “ as we are using MySQL

Database Server Host Name: The database hostname. Leave it unchanged. It is already as localhost.

User: The mysql user. ( we created during the installation of MySQL and phpmyadmin )
Password: the password of the user. ( we created during the installation of MySQL and phpmyadmin )
Database Name: the name of the database.

The next portion will have information about the MySQL Improved Table Settings. Leave it and click next.

When you click next it will start creating tables. When done click next.
On the next page it will ask to populate the table. Simply click Next
On this page, it will ask for a theme. We can do it later simply click Next.

In this step, we have to give the forums information

The step is named as “ Board Configuration “

Quote:Forum Name:  The name you want to use for your newly created mybb forum.
Forum URL:  The url for your new mybb site.

Website Name: The name you want to use for your newly created mybb forum.
Website URL: The url for your new mybb site.

You don’t need to change anything in cookies settings.

Contact Details:  admin information ( email )

 The next one is about security leave it unchanged and click Next.

 Now in this step, we have to create the administrator account information to manage the forums.

Quote:Accounts Details

Username:  admin
Password: adminpass
Re-Type Password: adminpass
Email: [email protected] 

note: remember to change the details according to your own information.

Click Next.

The installation is completed. When you will click “ Next “ after the admin account details it will show you the successful installation page.

Everything is done. Your new MyBB website is live.

It was a quick tutorial, If you need further help feel free to reply.

Thanks

Regards

Rehan ( Post4VPS Client ).

I haven't used Virtualbox since 2012.  I remember when I last used it with a Lenovo Laptop i7 Pentium, it installed fast.  And the OSs I installed on it installed similarly fast.  It was a pleasure and great fun.

So today has me baffled.  I installed Virtualbox on my Desktop.  My Desktop is a Dell Optiplex Intel Core i7 with Windows 7 Professional.  It has 16 GB RAM.  I allocated 2 GB RAM and 8 GB disk space for CentOS 7 before I loaded CentOS 7.  Installation of Virtualbox had no problem.  I tweaked the settings a little adding more video resources, etc, according to a course I've been following.

Headache started with installation of CentOS 7.  I had to re-try about six times during setup screen freezes that I couldn't get out of.  The setup windows for Date and Time, Language, Software etc took ages to load, and with each failed attempt the screen would freeze up during a different setup Window - Window was completely unresponsive - like only way I could get out was to abort the installation, remove the CentOS and start fresh.  After at least an hour of that, the installation system after setup finally came up and showed the button for installing CentOS 7, and wow, did that take forever to install.  It took AGES for the installation to complete. How come?

Then after installation, reboot, exiting, and then getting in again, it takes a long time for Linux to load.

Now I reckon if it's as painful to install it right now, that when it gets to working with it, will I have the same issues?  Is it worth it?

Does any one know what the variety of causes could be for CentOS 7 to be so slow?

Should I try a different download, or are they basically all the same from all of the distribution centers?  I downloaded the CentOS from centos.org ISO DVD - did nothing out of the ordinary.  And took a distribution from a distribution centre close to where I live.  The CentOS version I loaded is CentOS Linux Release 7.6.1810.

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Hello P4V team,

So this post is in regards to having a new section in the forum - the 'Science' section. This is because, in our forum, I find everything related to web designing, VPS or gaming. Ours is a forum after all, which should cater to different tastes. In this context, I find the Science section useful.

It gotta be a success. As far as I could infer from my previous post about the asteroid in the General section,  there are people of diverse knowledge in the forum who like to contribute to various topics. This would be another plus point for the 'Science' section. According to me,  it will lead to greater participation ad better discussions.

I assure you all that you will not need to worry about content - till I'm around. I have great stuff waiting to be typed and thus starting a discussion. I'm very sure, everyone will participate in such a constructive and healthy discussion. This will even lead to attracting new guys to our forum if the forum is overall even more active, Naturally, discussion s in this section will lead to quotations from varied sources and people will come to know about us. This will eventually lead to even healthier competitions for securing a VPS, in sharp contrast to the ones we have now.

Hence, its an earnest appeal to all the administrators and founders to kindly sanction this idea of mine. We could even do something better, prior to finalizing let's have a month of the 'Science'  section and let's see how things work out. If things go the right way, it'll be a permanent one and if not, God forbid. If this idea is approved, kindly move my previous thread from the 'General' section to this new one and we will be ready to get started with.

Waiting for amazing discussions in the section!

Regards,

*This tutorial is part of a series, visit the main thread to learn more*

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Thanks to @"Hidden Refuge" suggestion, I successful set up a x2go sever to remote desktop access. I find the set up of x2go A LOT OF EASIER compared to the installation of VNC, you can find a step-by-step guide of VNC installation by @"Hidden Refuge"  here.

On this tutorial we will learn what is a remote desktop access, why we are using x2go and how set up a x2go server/client.

Let's start with some information:

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• What is remote desktop access?
  It is a feature that allow us to run and display a desktop environment session of a server (o personal computer) from a different device, often far from the server location. You will be able to remote graphically control a system using its own native UI. To develop this features a lot of protocols has been created and here a list of them (source Wikipedia):
  • Apple Remote Desktop Protocol (ARD): Proprietary protocol for Apple Remote Desktop on macOS machines.
    
  • Appliance Link Protocol (ALP): A protocol for Sun Microsystems featuring audio (play and record), remote printing, remote USB, accelerated video.
    
  • HP Remote Graphics Software (RGS): A proprietary protocol designed by Hewlett-Packard specifically for high end workstation remoting and collaboration.
    
  • Independent Computing Architecture (ICA): A proprietary protocol designed by Citrix Systems.
    
  • NX technology (NoMachine NX): A cross platform protocol featuring audio, video, remote printing, remote USB, H264-enabled.
    
  • PC-over-IP (PCoIP): A proprietary protocol used by VMware.
    
  • Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP): A Windows-specific protocol featuring audio and remote printing.
    
  • Remote Frame Buffer Protocol (RF: A framebuffer level cross-platform protocol that VNC is based on.
    
  • SPICE (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments): A remote-display system built for virtual environments by Qumranet, now Red Hat.
    
  • Splashtop: A high performance remote desktop protocol developed by Splashtop, fully optimized for hardware (H.264) including Intel / AMD chipsets, NVIDIA / ATI GPU & APU, Qualcomm Snapdragon, and NVIDIA Tegra. By optimizing for different profiles of media codecs, Splashtop can deliver high frame rates with low latency, and also low power consumption.
    
  • Xpra: A protocol originally developed for forwarding X11 application seamlessly with audio, video, remote printing, etc - extended to support Windows and macOS servers.
    
  • X Window System (X11): A cross-platform protocol mainly used for displaying local applications.
    
• Why use x2go instead of VNC?                                                                                  
  • x2go uses NX 3 protocol instead of RFB(VNC) protocol.
    
  • When connecting hosts across the network, the NX protocol works as a generic tunnel, with additional framing and flow control information, and dynamically adapts compression and bandwidth according to network speed and capacity. For compatibility, multiplexing is based on the version 3 schema. [from Wikipedia, I couldn't express so good as it).
    
  • The connection is established via SSH
    
  • Works at full with 2D graphics.
    
  • x2go uses client-rendering
    
  • x2go-server is started on demand when a connection is established
    
• These aren't all the good things of x2go but I listed the main important information.
  

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• Installing x2go-server (The commands should be runned as sudo or root):
  • Connect to your server and login as root;
    
  • Make sure that your system is up to date with the following command:
    • UBUNTU:
      
      Code:

      apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
    • CENTOS:
      
      Code:

      yum update
    (* reboot after the update process is optional *)
    
  • Now we need to add the x2go repository
    • UBUNTU: x2go is available on x2go official PPA, to add the ppa run the following command:
      
      Code:

      add-apt-repository ppa:x2go/stable
      On latest ubuntu versions, this command will automatically trigger a update but if you are on a <18.XX version you need to:
      
      Code:

      apt-get update
    • CENTOS: x2go is available on EPEL repository, so we need to add EPEL on our system:
      
      Code:

      yum install epel-release
  • Now we can install x2go using the following command:
    • UBUNTU:
      
      Code:

      apt-get install x2goserver x2goserver-xsession
    • CENTOS:
      
      Code:

      yum install x2goserver x2goserver-xsession
  • Installing a desktop environment (The commands should be runned as sudo or root):
    Now you can install whatever DE you want, but a server's resources are very valuable so I recommend to install a lightweight DE such as XFCE or LX.DE:
    • To install XFCE use the following command:
      • UBUNTU:
        
        Code:

        apt-get install xfce4
      • CENTOS: xfce is available on EPEL repository, but we have already installed it, so we need just to run this command:
        
        Code:

        yum groupinstall xfce
    • To install LX.DE use the following command:
      • UBUNTU:
        
        Code:

        apt-get install lxde
      • CENTOS: lx.de isn't available on official repository so I reccomend to don't install it.
        
    • Extra: LX.DE developers are now focused on the their newest project, LXQT, based on Qt. You can install LXQT on UBUNTU using the following command:
      
      Code:

      apt-get install lxqt
    @"Hidden Refuge" reported us that if your VPS is using OpenVZ you will get some problems:
    WARNING: If you use this guide on OpenVZ keep the following in mind! The desktop environment installs a network manager. This network manager is not capable of supporting and configuring network adapters on OpenVZ! What will happen is that it will override the network adapters with nonsense and the network will stop working after the first reboot.
    
  • 
    To fix this problem follow the instructions by @"Hidden Refuge" here 
    
    
  • Installing x2go client and creating a session:
    • Download the official x2go client for your OS from here
      
    • Install and open the program and go to Session->New session... to create a new session
      
    • A windows pop-up will show up, there are few tabs: Session, Connection, Input/Output, Media, Shared Folder. We will focus only on Session tab, the others contains setting that are easy to understand.
      
    • On "Session name" set a name that will help you to identify on which server are you going to log in
      
    • On "Host" set your VPS IP address or domain
      
    • On "Login" set a linux user name which can SSH into the server
      
    • If you changed the SSH port you need to set it on "SSH port"
      
    • If you are using SSH keys to connect to your server, select your key on "Use RDA/RSA key for connection"
      
    • Lastely, on "Session Type" select the DE that you installed on your server. The commons DEs don't require a "command".
      
    • Click OK to save your session.
      
    • Now by clicking on your session you will start the connection. If you are using SSH password, you will be asked to insert the password.
      

Last time we had a discussion - could possibly have been at FreeVPS, I managed to download a Windows 10 Enterprise Pro ISO image -
en-gb_windows_10_enterprise_2016_ltsb_x64_dvd_9060114

@"Hidden Refuge", do you know where I'd be able to get hold of the updated version?

I didn't use it at the time, but did create a Flash disk, and then saved everything for use later.

I'm now back to playing in Virtual Box and want to play with Windows 10 Enterprise Pro.  Would the above ISO image still be OK to use?

The controls are wacky and performance is a joke compared to the PC or console.

Post4VPS is pleased to announce Shadow Hosting has increased the RAM of VPS 4 to over 10 GB (10240 MB ).  This makes VPS 4 the highest spec VPS at post4vps.

Our appreciation to @Manal and Shadow Hosting for their generosity.  This is much appreciated.

Manal Wrote:Dear Deanhills & Administrators at P4V,

We're glad to announce the increase of RAM for VPS 4. It means, we'll increase the total memory limit from 8 GB to now over 10 GB ie 10240 MB. I don't have much to say about this but anyways, I hope you'd enjoy it being the largest VPS of P4V. Thanks to all members being active in this community and hence putting towards good will.