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Shell Accounts

Shell Accounts
A shell is a command line interface for an operating system. With most shell providers, a command line interface on one flavor of Linux or Unix is all you get. Eskimo North provides access to eight different popular Linux distributions and SunOS Unix. Eskimo North also full remote desktop capabilities using X2Go with sound, and also NX, VNC, and RPD without sound.

Account Types
We offer five different levels of shell accounts: Economy, Standard, Power, and Enterprise. Background tasks such as IRC bots, Game Servers, and the like are permitted on all account types except student. IRC servers are not permitted because of their tendency to draw denial of service attacks. Standard, Power, Enterprise, and Super-Max shells include a MySQL database allowing you to run a variety of LAMP stack based applications on your website and to use non-web based applications that require a database.

Web Hosting
Web hosting under our domain is provided with all shell accounts. You can host your own domains with virtual domains or web hosting packages.

Remote Desktop
Remote desktop capability is like having a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers plugged right into our servers. Because our servers can be accessed anywhere in the world, this allows you to have a work environment you can access from anywhere in the world without risking losing your files to a laptop, tablet, or phone thief. We offer remote desktop capabilities on all of our shell servers except for the SunOS server. We support x2go, nx, vnc, and rdp protocols. X2go is the best choice as it provides extremely efficient compression and X round trip removal as well as sound.

Applications
Applications include Office Suites such as Libre Office and Caligra (which can read and write Microsoft Office file formats), Web and Program Development tools such as Bluefish Editor as well as many other editors, compilers, interpreters, scripting languages, debuggers, profilers, and online documentation.

E-mail
Our e-mail system offers unprecedented flexibility. You can access your mail via shell mail readers including graphical mailers like Thunderbird, or via Web mail, or via pop-3 and imap mail protocols, complete with TLS encryption. Our mail system includes Bayesian filtering with Spam Assassin which can be individually configured for your needs. Procmail allows you to sort and process mail automatically. Smartlist allows you to maintain mailing lists.

Security
Access to all of our servers is available via strong encryption. The shell servers all support ssh access. All of the remote desktop protocols tunnel via ssh. We maintain all of our servers up to date keep with the latest patches. Backups are made weekly.

in reply to Drop Bear

The whole world saw and knew Israel was commiting war crimes in 2008 and 2012 when they lobbed all those white phosphorus weapons at Gaza, maiming and killing innocent kids (they hit pediatric hospitals) and nobody did a god damn thing.

It's like Israel has somehow been granted a "get out of jail free card" by the entire fucking world or something.

Not a single Israeli politician or military officer has ever been held accountable or brought to justice for any of their continuous war crimes in the past 75 years.

NONE.

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Fuuuck's sake. That man is intent on tarnishing what's left of his legacy. Pathetic.

"President Joe Biden issues pardon for son Hunter Biden"

abcnews.go.com/US/president-jo…

#uspol

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Don't give in to the state
Stand strong against the cult of collectivism.

Join us for our latest series, Voluncap One Shot, over at: indiegogo.com/projects/volunca…

#libertarian #taxationistheft #endthefed #voluntaryism #ancap

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This little kitten is thankful this week. I found her on my back hill near the cornfields last Sun, face down in the grass, windy and cold, not moving. Honestly thought she was dead. Daughter and I gave her some cat treats, perked up, she purred in my arms. Vet estimates 3 - 4mos old, other than malnourished and cold, good health. skidish at first, now a 24/7 snuggle cat. The small miracles make us grateful for the blessings we already have.

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friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

The Prisoner


I was a bit surprised to see The Prisoner on Amazon Prime for free. The last time I saw this I was ten years old, I'm 66 now. Didn't have a color TV back then so this is the first time I've seen it in color. And I never saw the first episode before so I never totally understood the series, now it all makes absolute sense, and so ahead of it's time.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Shell Accounts

Shell Accounts
A shell is a command line interface for an operating system. With most shell providers, a command line interface on one flavor of Linux or Unix is all you get. Eskimo North provides access to eight different popular Linux distributions and SunOS Unix. Eskimo North also full remote desktop capabilities using X2Go with sound, and also NX, VNC, and RPD without sound.

Account Types
We offer five different levels of shell accounts: Economy, Standard, Power, Enterprise, and Super-Max. Background tasks such as IRC bots, Game Servers, and the like are permitted on all account types except student. IRC servers are not permitted because of their tendency to draw denial of service attacks. Standard, Power, Enterprise, and Super-Max shells include a MySQL database allowing you to run a variety of LAMP stack based applications on your website and to use non-web based applications that require a database.

Web Hosting
Web hosting under our domain is provided with all shell accounts. You can host your own domains with virtual domains or web hosting packages.

Remote Desktop
Remote desktop capability is like having a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers plugged right into our servers. Because our servers can be accessed anywhere in the world, this allows you to have a work environment you can access from anywhere in the world without risking losing your files to a laptop, tablet, or phone thief. We offer remote desktop capabilities on all of our shell servers except for the SunOS server. We support x2go, nx, vnc, and rdp protocols. X2go is the best choice as it provides extremely efficient compression and X round trip removal as well as sound.

Applications
Applications include Office Suites such as Libre Office and Caligra (which can read and write Microsoft Office file formats), Web and Program Development tools such as Bluefish Editor as well as many other editors, compilers, interpreters, scripting languages, debuggers, profilers, and online documentation.

E-mail
Our e-mail system offers unprecedented flexibility. You can access your mail via shell mail readers including graphical mailers like Thunderbird, or via Web mail, or via pop-3 and imap mail protocols, complete with TLS encryption. Our mail system includes Bayesian filtering with Spam Assassin which can be individually configured for your needs. Procmail allows you to sort and process mail automatically. Smartlist allows you to maintain mailing lists.

Security
Access to all of our servers is available via strong encryption. The shell servers all support ssh access. All of the remote desktop protocols tunnel via ssh. We maintain all of our servers up to date keep with the latest patches. Backups are made weekly.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Federated Services

Federated Services are services which many instances form a network to provide a greater whole than the sum of their parts, each participant in the Fediverse is an “instance”. A message or other item made available on one instance is visible and available on other instances.

We make these services available to all people who do not abuse it in order to promote the values of Free Speech, and those of the United States Constitution First Amendment. A free republic is not possible without free speech and commercial mainstream media do not provide it. We also get some advertisement benefit from hosting these, it is our hope that people who see how fast and responsible our services are will decide to do hosting or use other paid services here.

There are numerous federated services available, we offer Macrobloging platform Friendica, Hubzilla; Microbloging services Mastodon, Misskey, a federated search engine, Yacy, and a federated cloud service, Nextcloud.

Macrobloging services are message systems that allow long form posts similar in format to Facebook. These allow for works of fiction, poetry, technical papers, news items, short stories, and more. These formats are most useful for discussion of social issues.

Microbloging services allow only short form posts similar in format to Twitter. While you can link to larger articles elsewhere, you have a relatively short character limit and so can not post them directly.

Censorship, is handled much different on the fediverse than on mainstream media like Twitter or Facebook. On the fediverse, each individual instance is responsible for content available on that instance, but does not censor the rest of the network. Thus if you find the rules of one instance too constraining you can move to another.

Federated search engines are analogous to federated message systems in that each instance chooses what portion of the internet it wants to crawl. When you enter a search term, the local instance queries all of the federated instances, collates and sorts the results and presents them to you. As with messages, each instance can have it’s own censorship policies but no one instance can censor the entire network.

Given the wild-west nature of the fediverse, it is probably not suitable for children under 14, and you’re guaranteed to find some material that will offend virtually everyone. With federated search engines, material that is inappropriate will usually be flagged sensitive or nsfw (not safe for work) so as long as you don’t expand material marked as such, you can avoid this soft of material. There are occasionally people who violate these rules, we do our best to remove such individuals none the less some will get through.

We offer the following federated services:

Friendica.Eskimo.Com
Friendica is a decentralized long format macrobloging message network. It is similar in format to facebook however there is no centralized censorship. Also, it is able to federate with all other federated message systems which use ActivityPub protocol and also we have extensions that allow it to speak to several other networks via other protocols.

Hubzilla.Eskimo.Com
Hubzilla is similar in message format to Friendica in that it allows long posts. However, it specializes in it’s ability to provide connectivity to multiple protocols and so we include it in our mix of federated services primarily for the better connectivity it offers. Hubzilla provides a great deal of interoperability between many networks though ActivityPub is still it’s primary protocol. Hubzilla gives you a greater degree of control over privacy than some of the other networks. You can create private channels that are served between hubzilla instances and other compatible instances.

Mastodon.Eskimo.Com
Mastodon is first and foremost an alternative to Twitter. While Twitter has Tweets, Mastodon has Toots. The format is very similar. Mastodon toots have a limit of 500 characters. Similar to the short limit of Twitter. This is why this platform is referred to as a Microbloging format. Mastodon interacts with other ActivityPub instances however when a long form blog post from another instance arrives, you are only shown a short portion with a link to follow to see the full post on the originating site.

Misskey.Eskimo.Com
Misskey is, like Mastodon, a microbloging service. However, it’s Japanese design and gives it a much more gamey aesthetic. The software is also extremely efficient allowing for a very fast message rate. If you’ve got a fast mind and can read and comprehend fast, you will appreciate this service.

Yacy.Eskimo.Com
Yacy is a federated search engine. There are several thousand instances on the Internet. Each instances crawls whatever portion of the web the administrator requested. It is also possible for the administrator of a site with relatively few resources to request a larger site to do crawls on their behalf. Unfortunately, it does not provide a method for an end user to initiate a crawl, but if you send e-mail to support@eskimo.com and request a crawl, we will initiate a crawl on your behalf.

NextCloud.Eskimo.Com
If you are a customer of Eskimo North, your login credentials will work without a domain extension to access Nextcloud. If you are not a customer you can apply for a Nextcloud account using your choice of login and password, in this case the login should include your originating network. Some features require an Eskimo North shell account to take full advantage of.

If you enjoy these services, please consider supporting us by taking advantage of our paid services: https://www.eskimo.com

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Friendica.Eskimo.Com


We've upgraded Friendica.Eskimo.Com to Friendica 'Yellow Archangel' 2024.12-dev - 1576. I don't yet know what all changes this brought but there are new additions to the Home menu, little icons in the upper right portion of posts that shows which platform they were posted from, and overall the response seems a tad snappier.

I attempted this last night but accidentally removed some critical files resulting in several hours of outage while the files were being restored from compressed backups. Because the backed up partition was 13TB, this took awhile to uncompress.

I endeavor to make this instance as fast and pleasant to use as possible, and for this reason it is on an 18 core 36 thread I9-10980xe machine with 256GB of RAM and nvme disk for the database. Storage is on regular rotory disk. All disk partitions including root are RAID1 arrays.



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RFK Jr. vs WaPo marks first round in Trump's vow for a showdown with legacy media, censorship
Many news outlets have published Robert F. Kennedy Jr. profiles in the past 18 months, but The Washington Post’s in June was the only one to warrant a 20-page response from the Trump HHS nominee

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poor guy 🤭

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Russian New Years Song - Red Elvises


I'm native to the US, none the less I've had the opportunity to attend half a dozen Red Elvises concerts and have met Igor Yuzov, the band head and really the only permanent member of the band, the others being different in every concert I attend, and by the way he is a really nice person in person. But he is really experiencing some pain right now as he was born in Kiev and then later lived in Russia before coming to the United States, so two peoples he loves are fighting and killing each other and we, the nation he is now residing in, are contributing heavily to this massacre.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Federated Services


Federated Services are services which many instances form a network to provide a greater whole than the sum of their parts, each participant in the Fediverse is an “instance”. A message or other item made available on one instance is visible and available on other instances.

We make these services available to all people who do not abuse it in order to promote the values of Free Speech, and those of the United States Constitution First Amendment. A free republic is not possible without free speech and commercial mainstream media do not provide it. We also get some advertisement benefit from hosting these, it is our hope that people who see how fast and responsible our services are will decide to do hosting or use other paid services here.

There are numerous federated services available, we offer Macrobloging platform Friendica, Hubzilla; Microbloging services Mastodon, Misskey, a federated search engine, Yacy, and a federated cloud service, Nextcloud.

Macrobloging services are message systems that allow long form posts similar in format to Facebook. These allow for works of fiction, poetry, technical papers, news items, short stories, and more. These formats are most useful for discussion of social issues.

Microbloging services allow only short form posts similar in format to Twitter. While you can link to larger articles elsewhere, you have a relatively short character limit and so can not post them directly.

Censorship, is handled much different on the fediverse than on mainstream media like Twitter or Facebook. On the fediverse, each individual instance is responsible for content available on that instance, but does not censor the rest of the network. Thus if you find the rules of one instance too constraining you can move to another.

Federated search engines are analogous to federated message systems in that each instance chooses what portion of the internet it wants to crawl. When you enter a search term, the local instance queries all of the federated instances, collates and sorts the results and presents them to you. As with messages, each instance can have it’s own censorship policies but no one instance can censor the entire network.

Given the wild-west nature of the fediverse, it is probably not suitable for children under 14, and you’re guaranteed to find some material that will offend virtually everyone. With federated search engines, material that is inappropriate will usually be flagged sensitive or nsfw (not safe for work) so as long as you don’t expand material marked as such, you can avoid this soft of material. There are occasionally people who violate these rules, we do our best to remove such individuals none the less some will get through.

We offer the following federated services:

Friendica.Eskimo.Com
Friendica is a decentralized long format macrobloging message network. It is similar in format to facebook however there is no centralized censorship. Also, it is able to federate with all other federated message systems which use ActivityPub protocol and also we have extensions that allow it to speak to several other networks via other protocols.

Hubzilla.Eskimo.Com
Hubzilla is similar in message format to Friendica in that it allows long posts. However, it specializes in it’s ability to provide connectivity to multiple protocols and so we include it in our mix of federated services primarily for the better connectivity it offers. Hubzilla provides a great deal of interoperability between many networks though ActivityPub is still it’s primary protocol. Hubzilla gives you a greater degree of control over privacy than some of the other networks. You can create private channels that are served between hubzilla instances and other compatible instances.

Mastodon.Eskimo.Com
Mastodon is first and foremost an alternative to Twitter. While Twitter has Tweets, Mastodon has Toots. The format is very similar. Mastodon toots have a limit of 500 characters. Similar to the short limit of Twitter. This is why this platform is referred to as a Microbloging format. Mastodon interacts with other ActivityPub instances however when a long form blog post from another instance arrives, you are only shown a short portion with a link to follow to see the full post on the originating site.

Misskey.Eskimo.Com
Misskey is, like Mastodon, a microbloging service. However, it’s Japanese design and gives it a much more gamey aesthetic. The software is also extremely efficient allowing for a very fast message rate. If you’ve got a fast mind and can read and comprehend fast, you will appreciate this service.

Yacy.Eskimo.Com
Yacy is a federated search engine. There are several thousand instances on the Internet. Each instances crawls whatever portion of the web the administrator requested. It is also possible for the administrator of a site with relatively few resources to request a larger site to do crawls on their behalf. Unfortunately, it does not provide a method for an end user to initiate a crawl, but if you send e-mail to support@eskimo.com and request a crawl, we will initiate a crawl on your behalf.

NextCloud.Eskimo.Com
If you are a customer of Eskimo North, your login credentials will work without a domain extension to access Nextcloud. If you are not a customer you can apply for a Nextcloud account using your choice of login and password, in this case the login should include your originating network. Some features require an Eskimo North shell account to take full advantage of.

If you enjoy these services, please consider supporting us by taking advantage of our paid services: eskimo.com/

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Friendica.Eskimo.Com


Friendica.Eskimo.Com was getting to be a bit slow. Did some analysis of redis and mariadb configuration and found some places to improve performance and it seemed to have a pretty significant impact upon responsiveness.

Still trying to get images to display automagically in misskey, if anyone knows the magic juju please let me know.

in reply to Nanook

We had hardware problems before and it took four motherboards to finally get one that completely worked. We had originally gone with a Thermaltake 1000 watt power supply. It became unstable so we replaced it with a Gigabyte supply. Then we had motherboard issues. We started with an Asus board, one of the four memory channels died so not all of the system memory was visible to the CPU. We replaced it with a second and it just up and died. We ordered a Gigabyte board but it would not post with this cpu, so then an Asrock, the Asrock board could not handle the power requirements of this particular CPU and melted the solder connection of the power at the CPU socket after 18 hours of operation. Then we learned that the issue with the Gigabyte board was the BIOS, so we upgraded the BIOS and then it mostly worked. Then the Gigabyte power supply got ill, so we replaced with a Seasonic 1200 watt power supply. There is still an issue with the RAPL code in the kernel and if the CPU is allowed to get hot enough to where the kernel tries to downclock to cool it, it can lock up. So at this point we have the hardware issue resolved, but there is still some stability issue in the kernel. This however will only cause a short outage for us to drive to the co-lo and boot it rather than the long and right now it tends to go several weeks between crashes. Of course we would like it not to crash at all. But I believe the hardware issues are resolved at this point. The Gigabyte board appears to be capable of providing the power this CPU requires (as much as 540 watts with all 18 cores and 36 threads fully occupied at 4.8Ghz) and the Seasonic 1200 watt power supply appears up to the task and we know there is still active development of the RAPL code in the kernel for this CPU so hopefully this will get fixed. I am also putting together another machine with similar architecture that should be capable of acting as a backup in the event of another lengthy failure. So while life offers no guarantees, I believe we have it better stabilized.
in reply to Nanook

I might add, how much and how fast I can get things done are largely a factor of funding. If you subscribe to some of our paid services such as web hosting, virtual private servers, e-mail, shell accounts, then we can do more things with the free services.

Shell Accounts

Shell Accounts
A shell is a command line interface for an operating system. With most shell providers, a command line interface on one flavor of Linux or Unix is all you get. Eskimo North provides access to eight different popular Linux distributions and SunOS Unix. Eskimo North also full remote desktop capabilities using X2Go with sound, and also NX, VNC, and RPD without sound.

Account Types
We offer five different levels of shell accounts: Economy, Standard, Power, Enterprise and Super-Max. Shell types very principally in amount of disk quota provided. Background tasks such as IRC bots, Game Servers, and the like are permitted on all account types. IRC servers are not permitted because of their tendency to draw denial of service attacks. Standard, Power, Enterprise, and Super-Max shells include a MySQL database allowing you to run a variety of LAMP stack based applications on your website and to use non-web based applications that require a database.

Web Hosting
Web hosting under our domain is provided with all shell accounts. You can host your own domains with virtual domains or web hosting packages.

Remote Desktop
Remote desktop capability is like having a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers plugged right into our servers. Because our servers can be accessed anywhere in the world, this allows you to have a work environment you can access from anywhere in the world without risking losing your files to a laptop, tablet, or phone thief. We offer remote desktop capabilities on all of our shell servers except for the SunOS server. We support x2go, nx, vnc, and rdp protocols. X2go is the best choice as it provides extremely efficient compression and X round trip removal as well as sound.

Applications
Applications include Office Suites such as Libre Office and Caligra (which can read and write Microsoft Office file formats), Web and Program Development tools such as Bluefish Editor as well as many other editors, compilers, interpreters, scripting languages, debuggers, profilers, and online documentation.

E-mail
Our e-mail system offers unprecedented flexibility. You can access your mail via shell mail readers including graphical mailers like Thunderbird, or via Web mail, or via pop-3 and imap mail protocols, complete with TLS encryption. Our mail system includes Bayesian filtering with Spam Assassin which can be individually configured for your needs. Procmail allows you to sort and process mail automatically. Smartlist allows you to maintain mailing lists.
Security

Access to all of our servers is available via strong encryption. The shell servers all support ssh access. All of the remote desktop protocols tunnel via ssh. We maintain all of our servers up to date keep with the latest patches. Backups are made weekly.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

New Social Media Service


In an attempt to further the freedom of speech, I have added a new Misskey social media site to Eskimo North. It can be reached through our Web-Apps menu on the main website eskimo.com/ or directly at misskey.eskimo.com/.

It is a minimal setup at present so not super pretty but I’ll fill it out as time permits.

This joins our other social media sites, friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, mastodon.eskimo.com/, nextcloud.eskimo.com/ and our federated search engine yacy.eskimo.com/.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Misskey


I am trying to build a misskey instance using manual installation.

I am to the point of building the software. When I type:

pmpn run init, I get:

> misskey@2024.10.1 init /space/www/misskey/misskey
> pnpm migrate


> misskey@2024.10.1 migrate /space/www/misskey/misskey
> cd packages/backend && pnpm migrate


> backend@ migrate /space/www/misskey/misskey/packages/backend
> pnpm typeorm migration:run -d ormconfig.js

Error during migration run:
Error: Unable to open file: "/space/www/misskey/misskey/packages/backend/ormconfig.js". Cannot find module '/space/www/misskey/misskey/packages/backend/built/config.js' imported from /space/www/misskey/misskey/packages/backend/ormconfig.js
at CommandUtils.loadDataSource (/space/www/misskey/misskey/node_modules/.pnpm/typeorm@0.3.20_ioredis@5.4.1_pg@8.13.0/node_modules/typeorm/commands/CommandUtils.js:22:19)
at async Object.handler (/space/www/misskey/misskey/node_modules/.pnpm/typeorm@0.3.20_ioredis@5.4.1_pg@8.13.0/node_modules/typeorm/commands/MigrationRunCommand.js:40:26)
 ELIFECYCLE  Command failed with exit code 1.
 ELIFECYCLE  Command failed with exit code 1.
 ELIFECYCLE  Command failed with exit code 1.
misskey@inuvik:~/misskey$ ls -ld /space/www/misskey/misskey/packages/backend/built/config.js
ls: cannot access '/space/www/misskey/misskey/packages/backend/built/config.js': No such file or directory
misskey@inuvik:~/misskey$ ls -ld /space/www/misskey/misskey/packages/backend/ormconfig.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 misskey nogroup 424 Nov 15 00:58 /space/www/misskey/misskey/packages/backend/ormconfig.js
misskey@inuvik:~/misskey$

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Eskimo North - Ice / Redundancy Setup


Just a heads up on how things are going with Ice and general redundancy measures. I’ve got cron jobs in place to distribute SSL certs across all of the physical machines so any one physical machine being alive will be adequate to get access to SSL certs.

I’ve got a 5th name server running as a virtual machine on my machine at home so even if the co-lo is down entirely incoming e-mail will not be lost.

I’ve got a cron job copying /home and mail spool to another machine so either machine being down, I will still have a way of making these things accessible.

I’m still working on ice. It turned out both Asus memory boards I have had dead memory channels, one because pins are missing from the CPU socket but the other is a mystery. I can not see any missing or bent pins, yet, the BIOS sees all the DIMMS even though the CPU does not so this still points to a socket problem, perhaps a bad solder connection or open trace.

So I ordered another board, but did not pay adequate attention to the description, it was a parts board so not usable. The seller agreed to take it back if I paid shipping even though he had said no returns up front. Thank God some decent people still exist.

Then I ordered another board, this one supposedly working, well it arrived and had a minor problem. Someone broke a screw off for the nvme drive in one of the mounts. I was unable to get it out of the mount so ordered a kit for $6 off of amazon that contains mounts and mounting screws and I will just replace it. A pain as I have to take the board out again as I can not get to it from the back.

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friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Remote Desktop


Shell is a command line interface to an operating system. Most shell providers offer a simple text only interface via ssh, telnet, or rlogin. With some of these providers it may be possible to execute X commands and redirect them to your display. While this allows you to use graphical commands, it is a tedious process.

While Eskimo North does provide traditional shell access, we go much further offering full remote desktop access with sound. This is like having a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers plugged right into our servers and it is available from anywhere in the world. With a reasonably decent broadband connection, full motion video and high quality audio is possible.

Four popular remote desktop protocols are supported. All of these are tunnelled through ssh to provide encryption to protect your sensitive data and to prevent snooping on your activities or intercepting your login authentication credentials.

Guacamole Web Based Access
On our website under Web Apps, Desktop or Terminal Access, or by going directly to eskimo.com/guacamole/, login with “public” for the login and password. Then choose the server and whether you want a terminal or desktop and then login with your login and password. This allows you to access a terminal session or full remote desktop session from any HTML5 compliant web browser.

X2Go
X2Go is by far the preferable protocol to use. There are two clients that work with X2Go, the X2Go client, and PyHoca, a python client. The X2Go client is easy to configure with a simple graphical configuration interface. It tunnels all data through an SSH connection by default so there is little chance of accidentally establishing an unencrypted session and exposing critical data. It is the only remote desktop that supports sound well. It does an excellent job of eliminating X round-trip delays and it also compresses data very efficiently. It is the only remote desktop protocol that is sufficiently robust and efficient to make full motion video and audio work reasonably well over a cable modem connection. X2Go is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS/X based computers. For linux computers, it is usually included with your distribution. Try yum install x2go-client or apt-get install x2go-client.

VNC
VNC is an old X-forwarding protocol. The VNC servers we have here are configured to tunnel through ssh in order to provide a secure encrypted session. Consequently, you will either need a client that provides ssh tunnelling such as Chicken VNC (not to be confused with Chicken of the VNC which does not provide this functionality) or you will need to setup an ssh tunnel manually. VNC does not do such a good job of eliminating X round-trip delays nor does it compress as effeciently as X2Go or NX. However, VNC is available for more platforms and if you have an older computer this may be the best option.

RDP
RDP or Remote Desktop Protocol is the protocol used by Windows for remote desktop access. If you have a Windows machine, you most likely already have RDP built in so it is a quick way to get a remote desktop up and running. The performance of RDP is really not adequate for full motion video and it also lacks audio and remote printing.

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