Post your Best/Latest Accomplishment

[Ketaru]

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I'm on Siren. I'm sure that guy's name is just a randomly generated name.

[hexx]

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I'm on Siren. I'm sure that guy's name is just a randomly generated name.

LOL reason i was asking is cuz I know a Dawnn on my server as well (Quetz) but havent seen him around in a while, not sure if thats the same person and he jumped servers........

[Ketaru]

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No. Our Dawnn is a female and has been on our server forever.

Well...allegedly female anyway. Can never tell in Final Fantasy XI.

[hexx]

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Funny thing is, he spells it the same exact way: Dawnn with two "n"s

[Mog]

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Hmmm... a drk mainhanding a MK doesn't strike me as "Zerging."

Me neither. An apoc drk in my HNMls uses Mkris instead of apoc during zerg fights and apparently it parses much better. It's pretty crazy.

[Aksannyi]

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We had a couple Kclubs and a few Mkris but mostly Ridill for zerg.

Ridill would drop and the person who got it could sell their Mkris, basically.

[cidbahamut]

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Holy shit!
I found the people who do Garrison on my server tonight.

Completely by accident too. I flagged up looking for a party on Black Mage expecting the worst and instead I get an invite to the event I've been trying to organize people to come to for weeks.

[Losrase]

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Ding! level 70 BST. Now time to get a buffer and make an attempt at the Maat fight.

On another note...I gave in to temptation and started playing FFXI again.

[Aksannyi]

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Your avatar is fitting, then?

[Nuriko]

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Ding WAR30 on my ... well, mule isn't exactly appropriate anymore, so I'll say alt. Time to head to Aht Urghan and see what I can manage now.

[Vyuru]

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I had my first ever Dynamis the other night!

It was a low man Dynamis SandO'ria with about 10 people, and was quite fun. A friend sent me a /tell asking if I wanted to go, and asked that I go on Blu to be stunner and sleeper, plus DD. I stunned all three of some orc NM's charmga attempts (Fanatic's Dance?) and most of his other TP moves as well, leaving the group rather happy and impressed.

I did like Zaethi asking me if I had stunned those moves on purpose or not And the answer is yes and no. The first charga move I meant to stun, the second I cast because I felt it was about time for the NM to try another TP move, and he did try to use his charmga move right before the spell went off, and the third I meant to stun. However I also added don't expect me to be able to do that consistently, I'm still learning how to stun some TP moves and keep a mob largely stun locked, although it seemed like a decently long delay on that orc's moves.

And I walked out with the Mirage Bazubands, which look quite snazzy, and some coinage and misc items. I like the fingerless look of the Magus Bazubands slightly better, but I like the color scheme on the Mirage Bazubands a whole lot more.

The group I went with was great, very professional and fun to be around. Rdm and Brds actually kept me refreshed!!! People were kept cured, it was great!!

Oh yeah, and I died several times

Dynamis was a hoot, I want to do more!

[Losrase]

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I beat Maat down!...well my pet did.

Squid Sushi
Opo Opo Necklace + 4 sleep potions
3 high potion +1
2 X-potion +1
Icarus Wing
Clear B. Blood
Blink Band

I summoned Lifedrinker Lars, got to 100% tp using the sleep pots + opo opo necklace, eat the Squid Sushi, used the blink band, and 2HR. Had my pet attack Maat then I Rampaged Maat then Snarl my hate. (Maat 2HR on his pet rabbit). I attacked the pet rabbit...then rabbit was kicking my butt! I had to use 1 X potion before the rabbit died. Re-engaged Maat and before I could swing, Lifedrinker Lars made him give up.

[Lunaryn]

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Kind of a strange one here.

First, I have to admit to a major lapse of security on my part; I have an account on my server named 'dummy'. This account has existed for many years through many system rebuilds. This account is almost always locked/disabled and can only be accessed via su from root. It's been configured to ensure that it has no significant privileges normally granted to authorized system users. Once upon a time I used this for rare occasions where I needed to run a proprietary binary to deal with some kind of file, e.g. rar or sit (stuffit expander), in order to keep it reasonably isolated from the rest of the system.

Recently a user who was concerned a system of hers was infected provided files to me that I scanned for viruses. In order to avoid potentially leaking her password, I temporarily opened the dummy account with a simple password and gave it to her. She uploaded the files and I scanned them. I thought I locked the account when I was done, but it seems that this step was missed. My logs show that the password to the account was discovered three times since then by outside hosts (all of which have now been blacklisted by the firewall). At least one made a serious attempt to use this account, changing the password and downloading a number of cracking kits both to the dummy account homedir and /var/tmp.

Here's the one neat part of this, though: Some years back I replaced my server's hardware with an Athlon X2 system. Because I now had an amd64 proc, I decided to make the newer OS reinstalls use x86_64 as the architecture, using the Cross-LFS book as a base. Since Kuri runs no proprietary software or prepackaged binaries that might rely on 32-bit system libraries, I built a pure64 system. And since I knew no legitimate binary for the system would thus ever be 32-bit, I disabled support for 32-bit instructions in the kernel.

After a bit of panicked attempt to assess damage, it quickly became clear that there were no signs of damage or infiltration beyond the files created/downloaded by the dummy user. There were no running processes under the user, or any unaccounted-for processes at all. The shell history showed attempts to use various parts of several tools, but the tools themselves were useless: every single one was a 32-bit binary that could not execute on my system.

On the one hand, this was a case of my getting lucky: my attacker was not sophisticated enough to find or build 64-bit versions of the required tools. Had they been, they could have proceeded to add my server to their botnet and use it until I caught on to the fact that 'dummy' was running stuff and shouldn't be. Perhaps they might even have been able to look for a privilege escalation exploit to try to root the box. On the other hand, this is also an example of layered security and my own bizarre form of paranoia paying off. A classic security rule is that if you don't need a feature, you get rid of it. In this case, support for the very instruction set most exploits and cracking tools are written in was the unneeded feature.

[Mezlo]

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Ding 75 RDM!

[Zoltar]

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Got my Royal Redingote from ACP11 last week, got the -2 Avatar Perpetuation/Pet Attack +15/Pet Ranged Attack +15

Beats the hell outta the YYR (which I skipped over)

Trying to finish Moogle/Shantotto but it's crappy finding ppl on Bahamut who actually wanna do these fights... >.>