The Daresbury Laboratory SkyCam homepage is at http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/dlskycam.html

Some Highlights of the DLSkyCam

August 2000

• Dramatic Horizon Cloud of Dawn 6:08am, 1st August 2000)
• Grim cloudscape with features 6:08pm, 1st August 2000)
• Enveloping wave of cloud 7:08pm, 1st August 2000)
• Receding wave of cloud 7:22pm, 1st August 2000)
• Twilight sky and banded cloud 7:38pm, 1st August 2000)
• Twilight sky and banded cloud 7:44pm, 1st August 2000)
• Overhang cloudscape 6:22pm, 2nd August 2000)
• Moving twilight horizon cloud 7:22pm, 2nd August 2000)
• Dramatic overhang cloud 7:38pm, 2nd August 2000)
• Dramatic cloudscape 7:44pm, 2nd August 2000)
• Flaming white volcano eruption of cloud 8:08pm, 2nd August 2000)
• Flaming white volcano eruption of cloud 8:22pm, 2nd August 2000)
• Cloudscape and overhang cloud 5:22pm, 3rd August 2000)
• Cloudscape 5:38pm, 3rd August 2000)
• Cloudscape and twilight approaching 7:08pm, 3rd August 2000)
• Dramatic cloudscape 7:22pm, 3rd August 2000)
• Dramatic flaming pink twilight cloudscape 7:38pm, 3rd August 2000)
• Bland pastel painted cloudscape 5:08pm, 5th August 2000)
• Grim Cloudscape 6:38pm, 7th August 2000)
• Blue sky and cloudscape 6:08pm, 8th August 2000)
• Blue sky, cloudscape and Cirrus horizon cloud 6:22pm, 8th August 2000)
• Twilight and pink flaming Cirrus horizon cloud 6:38pm, 8th August 2000)
• Evidence of dawn by high pink flaming cloud 6:22am, 9th August 2000)
• High dawn silver streak cloud 6:38am, 9th August 2000)
• High matted cloud 7:08am, 9th August 2000)
• High matted cloud 7:22am, 9th August 2000)
• High grim cloudscape 7:38am, 9th August 2000)
• Grim purple cloudscape with features 4:38pm, 10th August 2000)
• Grim dawn high cloud and flaming pink tips 6:22am, 11th August 2000)
• Dramatic band of storm cloud shadowing the dawn 6:38am, 11th August 2000)
• Dramatic band of storm cloud shadowing the dawn 6:44am, 11th August 2000)
• Starship Cirrus cloud and hazy blue sky 6:22pm, 11th August 2000)
• Horizon Cirrus cloud and hazy blue sky 6:38pm, 11th August 2000)
• Dawn and vapour streaks of white cloud 6:22am, 12th August 2000)
• Dark enveloping horizon cloud 7:08pm, 12th August 2000)
• Grim enveloping horizon cloud 6:22pm, 13th August 2000)
• Grim lava flows of cloud 5:44pm, 14th August 2000)
• Lava flow of cloud with a bit of blue sky 6:38pm, 14th August 2000)
• Cloudscape with horizon starship cloud 6:44pm, 14th August 2000)
• High matt of cloud 7:08pm, 14th August 2000)
• Diminishing high matt of cloud at twilight 7:22pm, 14th August 2000)
• Diminishing high matt of cloud at twilight 7:38pm, 14th August 2000)
• Diminishing high matt of cloud at twilight 7:44pm, 14th August 2000)
• Dark dawn horizon cloud with some high matted flaming pink cloud 6:08am, 15th August 2000)
• Dark dawn horizon cloud with hurricane of wispy cloud 6:22am, 15th August 2000)
• Horizon cloud of dawn 6:38am, 15th August 2000)
• Horizon cloud of dawn 6:44am, 15th August 2000)
• Volcanic erruption of cloud overwhelms the skycam 7:08am, 15th August 2000)
• Dramatic multicoloured horizon cirrus cloud 6:38pm, 15th August 2000)
• Dramatic cirrus horizon cloud and wispy ghost cloud 7:08pm, 15th August 2000)
• Dramatic cirrus horizon cloud 7:22pm, 15th August 2000)
• Dramatic flaming pink cirrus horizon cloud of twilight 7:38pm, 16th August 2000)
• Dramatic overhang cloud and flaming pink cirrus horizon cloud of twilight 7:44pm, 16th August 2000)
• Jet vapour trail evidence of dawn 6:22am, 17th August 2000)
• Dawn and horizon Cirrus cloud 6:38am, 17th August 2000)
• Dawn and horizon starship Cirrus cloud 6:44am, 17th August 2000)
• Dramatic horizon starship Cirrus cloud 6:44pm, 17th August 2000)
• As twilight approaches; horizon starship Cirrus cloud moves on 7:08pm, 17th August 2000)
• As twilight approaches; horizon starship Cirrus cloud moves on 7:22pm, 17th August 2000)
• Flaming pink horizon starship Cirrus cloud of twilight 7:38pm, 17th August 2000)
• Flaming pink horizon starship Cirrus cloud of twilight moves on 7:44pm, 17th August 2000)
• The Darkness is here 8:08pm, 17th August 2000)
• Flaming pink streaming clouds before dawn 6:08am, 18th August 2000)
• Blue sky and clouds of dawn 6:22am, 18th August 2000)
• Grim dramatic cloudscape 1:08pm, 18th August 2000)
• Swirling high cloudscape 2:08pm, 18th August 2000)
• Swirling high cloudscape 2:22pm, 18th August 2000)
• Contrasting grim cloudscape 5:22pm, 18th August 2000)
• Contrasting grim cloudscape 6:08pm, 18th August 2000)
• Blue sky and Cirrus clouds on the far horizon 6:38pm, 18th August 2000)
• Blue sky and Cirrus clouds on the far horizon 6:44pm, 18th August 2000)
• Blue sky and receding Cirrus clouds on the far horizon 7:08pm, 18th August 2000)
• Blue sky and receding starship cirrus clouds on the far horizon 7:22pm, 18th August 2000)
• Blue sky and receding starship cirrus clouds of twilight on the far horizon 7:38pm, 18th August 2000)
• Blue sky and receding starship cirrus clouds of twilight on the far horizon 7:44pm, 18th August 2000)
• Dawn and streak of red flame cloud 6:38am, 21st August 2000)
• Marshmellow cloudscape 5:44pm, 21st August 2000)
• Moving cloudscape 6:22pm, 21st August 2000)
• Erupting cirrus cloud on the horizon 6:38pm, 21st August 2000)
• Violent erupting cirrus cloud on the horizon 6:44pm, 21st August 2000)
• Dark violent erupting cirrus cloud envelops the sky 7:08pm, 21st August 2000)
• Pastel red flaming sky scape 6:38am, 22nd August 2000)
• Ambivalent cloudscape on a blue sky 6:38pm, 22nd August 2000)
• White peaks Cirrus cloudscape on the horizon 6:44pm, 22nd August 2000)
• Twilight and the flaming tips of horizon cirrus clouds 7:08pm, 22nd August 2000)
• Heavy pillow cloud on the horizon 8:38pm, 23rd August 2000)
• Twilight approaching and heavy pillow cloud on the horizon 8:44pm, 23rd August 2000)
• Flaming red streaks imply dawn is approaching 6:22am, 24th August 2000)
• Flaming red pastel skyscape 6:38am, 24th August 2000)
• High grey purple cloudscape 6:08pm, 24th August 2000)
• High grey purple cloudscape 6:22pm, 24th August 2000)
• High grey purple cloudscape 6:38pm, 24th August 2000)
• Twilight and high grey purple cloudscape 7:08pm, 24th August 2000)
• Walking cloudscape 6:44pm, 24th August 2000)
• Dramatic high purple cloudscape 7:22pm, 24th August 2000)
• Horizon cloud obscures the dawn 6:38am, 27th August 2000)
• Flaming horizon starts to overwhelm the cloudscape 6:44am, 27th August 2000)
• Wandering cloudscape 5:44pm, 27th August 2000)
• Long necked wandering cloudscape 6:44pm, 27th August 2000)
• Dramatic overhang and horizon cloud 7:08pm, 27th August 2000)
• Dramatic overhang cloud starts to envelop the sky 7:22pm, 27th August 2000)
• Dramatic nebula cloudscape 7:08am, 28th August 2000)
• Some distant Cirrus horizon cloud 7:08pm, 28th August 2000)
• Some distant Cirrus horizon cloud 7:22pm, 28th August 2000)
• Dark horizon cloud obscures the approaching dawn 6:38am, 29th August 2000)
• Dark horizon cloud obscures the approaching dawn 6:44am, 29th August 2000)
• Dark cloud covers the sky 7:08am, 31st August 2000)
• Purple flame and dark cloud covers the sky 7:22am, 31st August 2000)
• Purple flame nebula cloud surrounded by the dark cloud 7:38am, 31st August 2000)
• Purple lightning cloud surround by the dark cloud 7:44am, 31st August 2000)
• Purple streak cloud surround by the dark cloud 8:08am, 31st August 2000)

This England

"This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
 This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
 This other Eden, demi-paradise,
 This fortress built by Nature for herself
 Against infection and the hand of war,
 This happy breed of men, this little world,
 This precious stone set in the silver sea...
 This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England."

 William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, Richard II, Act 2, Scene 1 
 (JOHN OF GAUNT (Duke of Lancaster) speaks)

For information on the kludges make this Skycam come alive?

• The Kludge that is my crontab file
• Grabbing the image (adpated from the SGI Indycam "snap" script)
• Dynamically setting the IndyCam Shutterspeed and Settings script
  (Script from Adrie Kooijman's website: http://www.io.tudelft.nl/~adrie/IndyShutter)
• Make a new Archive Directory for each new day
• Copy image files to the archive twice a day as per the crontab file
• Script for having an image delivered on demand
  (Script from Christopher Spry's website: http://sprysgi.sghms.ac.uk/~cspry/computing/Indy_admin/IndyCam.html) (from)

• The /etc/mtab setting on the local Indy
  webserver.ccp14.ac.uk:/web_disc/ccp14/web_area/web_live/people/lachlan/indycam /indydirectory/indycam nfs vers=3,rw,intr,bg,dev=c0001 0 0
• The /etc/exports setting on the webserver
  /web_disc/ccp14/web_area/web_live/people/lachlan/indycam -rw,access=indy.name
• The /usr/etc/portmapper security setting on the webserver to limit hacker portmapper/mountd/rpc probes
  (As run on initialisation in /etc/init.d/network. Do a "man portmap". This can be reconfigured and restarted without rebooting using Wietse Venema's portmapper utilties)
  

  -v
  -a 255.255.255.255,indy-ip-address

• Then using Wietse Venema's portmapper program do the following sequence of commands to be able to restart the "IRIX" portmapper without having to reboot the machine.

  ./pmap_dump > table
  killall portmap
  /usr/etc/portmap `cat /etc/config/portmap.options`
  ./pmap_set < table

• Also do a man ipfilterd

• Know Your Enemy:III, by Lance Spitzner
  • mountd exploit of a Redhat 5.1 Linux system - as noticed by the sysadmins and logged in minute detail.
  • At http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/enemy3.html
  • "The tool used was most likely ADMmountd.c," - ftp://adm.freelsd.net/pub/ADM/
  • "One of the more common rootkits is lrk4" - ftp://ftp.technotronic.com/unix/trojans/
  • "For more detailed information on rootkits, see the README that comes with lrk4. " - http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/README.txt

• "For constant inside illumination, REM out the indyshutter script and try the following for setting up the Indycam: Run capture Then in the menu system: "Options" "Video Panel" "Pro, Indycam, Signal Controls" And manually tweak the controls so the balance, lighting is happy. When you exit "capture", this setting should be retained for when your script is applied."

This page originally started life from the webpage - on the World War I patriotic poem telling how "The Surreys Played the Game"

"On through the heat of slaughter
Where gallant comrades fall
Where blood is poured like water
They drive the trickling ball
The fear of death before them
Is but an empty name
True to the land that bore them
The Surreys play the game"