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IRCnet exploit?!
Date: May 14th, 2006 by SiD3WiNDR
Categories: Fun, IRC

[13|20:49:16] <@redLED> exit
[13|20:49:46] [-] [x] Netsplit *.club-internet.fr <-> *.se quits: @tmind
[13|20:51:25] <@pepijn> new hole in the ircd code ?   when typing ‘e x i t’ the net splits ?
[13|20:51:39] <@pepijn> terrible thing, let’s get offline
[13|20:53:42] [-] [x] Netsplit over, joins: @tmind
[13|23:27:19] <@SiD3WiNDR> :))
[13|23:27:26] <@SiD3WiNDR> exit !
[13|23:34:23] [-] [x] Netsplit *.pl <-> *.at quits: @tmind
[13|23:34:38] <@frankske> it worked, a tad slow
[13|23:34:55]  ! SiD3WiNDR grins
 

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Artificial Dumbness
Date: May 13th, 2006 by SiD3WiNDR
Categories: Fun, IRC

[13|14:28:26] [-] [:] terorist [michael@users.daforest.org] has joined #eggies
[13|14:29:08] < terorist> hello
[13|14:29:11] < terorist> anyone here..?
[13|14:33:05]  ! ObiWan is back
[13|14:33:07] < ObiWan> I can’t reach this itch :O
[13|14:33:45] < terorist> ObiWan can you help me with something ?
[13|14:33:49] < ObiWan> certainly
[13|14:33:51] < ObiWan> Let’s make biscuits… LET’S MAKE BISCUITS.
[13|14:34:21] < terorist> i loaded country tcl script
[13|14:34:22] < terorist> for eggdrops
[13|14:34:43] < terorist> but i don’t know how to add that .sql file to my MySQL database
[13|15:08:03] < ObiWan> fantastic
[13|15:08:54] < terorist> thanks for help
[13|15:08:54] < terorist> 🙂
[13|15:08:57] < ObiWan> 😉
[13|15:09:07] < terorist> i`ll fix it later when i`ll talk with my admin
[13|15:09:16] < terorist> i cannot make a sql database don’t have rights:)
[13|15:36:03] < ObiWan> KazOO.
[13|15:41:14]  ! terorist is away (out)
[13|15:41:17] < ObiWan> Talk to you later.
[13|16:42:03] < ObiWan> bleh.

ObiWan is my fully automatic bot, running the bMotion script plus some own coding. It’s fun when "she" gives support all on her own 🙂

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Magic moment
Date: May 3rd, 2006 by SiD3WiNDR
Categories: Fun

tom@tequila:~$ date +"%H:%M:%S %d/%m/%y"
01:02:03 04/05/06

Whee. or so. 

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So this is why we buy Dell…
Date: May 3rd, 2006 by SiD3WiNDR
Categories: Hardware, Work

A client at work needed a super powerful machine for demo purposes. Dell couldn’t really give it to us (especially since we needed in an as-small-as-possible case), so we decided to build it ourselves. This is probably one of the most powerful machines out there (without overclocking, just standard hardware):

  •  AMD Athlon FX-60 (Dual core, 64-bit, 2600MHz)
  • 2x 2x1GB (Dual Channel Set) OCZ DDR400 with golden heatspreaders
  • Geforce 7900GTX with 512MB Video RAM
  • Gigabyte something-something mainboard with nForce 430 chipset
  • 2x Western Digital Raptor X 150GB in RAID0

The system is running a 32-bit Windows however. 3DMark hovered around the 10300 points mark, HD Tach reported 120MB/sec average throughput, 6% CPU utilization for the disks and I/O bursts of up to 215MB/sec. Not bad, eh? All this will be placed in a Silverstone SG01 case, but it hasn’t arrived yet – we needed to test the hard- and software beforehand, so it’s all layed out on a table near my desk… Surely has attracted a lot of visitors, and everone passing by needed to know some more. Geeks and hardware…

But not all is that well.. The RAID controller drivers need to be on a floppy for the XP setup to recognize the controller… but

  • We didn’t have a working floppy drive. I dug up 2 old ones from the serverroom storage but neither did the job.
  • Gigabyte packed the wrong drivers on their CD for the RAID controller. So we needed to get them from the ‘net.
  • Once the "Windows kernel" part of the setup is loaded, Windows no longer sees a USB floppy drive anymore, so can’t get the drivers
  • Slipstreaming the NVidia drivers into the XP setup CD is quite difficult, in fact we wasted 7 CD’s on it and did not completely succeed.

I went home in the evening and we installed from my One And Only Working Floppy Drive+Cable Combination(tm). A few bluescreens later (Thank you, BIOS-graphics-booster overclock-thingamajig option set to Enabled) we got the thing working… finally. Caused a LOT of frustration.

We also bought an Adaptec SATA RAID controller for it, which plugged into the PCI bus. PCI bus means it’ll be capped to 133MB/sec (or thereabouts) with no way of bursting over it… Which was indeed the case. Same average throughput, but no bursting at all. Pity there wasn’t a PCI-X or PCIe x8 slot on the board (MicroATX..) or an Areca controller would really have kicked some major ass. I must note slipstreaming the Adaptec drivers into the XP cd went without ANY problem, and XP installed first time. Thumbs up Adaptec! 

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DNS.be on a roll
Date: May 1st, 2006 by SiD3WiNDR
Categories: Interweb, Networking, Stupid

It seems DNS.be has made a bit of a booboo… They have billed all agents for march (instead of april), resulting in negative credit balances (somehow march is a month with way more registrations than april) for many agents. Affected are at least Openminds , Priorweb and Stone IS – probably more. If your .be registrations don’t work today and/or tomorrow, this is why.

 Of course, today being a public holiday doesn’t help things, as there will probably be noone there to fix the mistake before tomorrow. Unfortunately, business on the internet goes on, 24/7, and people will expect domain names to be registered…

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