rooted yesterday. but not without help. main problem was that I got sidetracked by scripts made by other users. Sadly I realized way too late that those files are not supposed to be there 
Anyway: really great box. taught me new things. thats the most important thing. Thank you @Xh4H
Init foothold: read everything you an access and then google
user: look at what you can access/run and if someone left notes behind
root: look at whats going on and look for something you can wirte to