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

Some Highlights of the DLSkyCam

February 2000

• Heavy Cloudscape with purple streaking 8:38am, 2nd February 2000)
• Cloudscape 3:44pm, 2nd February 2000)
• Dramatic Horizon Cloud stormscape with some overhang cloud 4:38pm, 2nd February 2000)
• Purple galaxy skyscape 8:44am, 3rd February 2000)
• Light skyscape with jet vapour trails 10:08am, 3rd February 2000)
• Purple cloudscape with horizon streaks and minor cloud train 1:08pm, 3rd February 2000)
• Purple cloudscape with horizon streaks and minor cloud train 1:22pm, 3rd February 2000)
• Purple cloudscape 1:38pm, 3rd February 2000)
• Purple cloudscape with cloud train 1:44pm, 3rd February 2000)
• Purple cloudscape with features 2:22pm, 3rd February 2000)
• Purple cloudscape with features 2:22pm, 3rd February 2000)
• Purple cloudscape with cloud train 2:44pm, 3rd February 2000)
• Darkened purple cloudscape 3:08pm, 3rd February 2000)
• Purple cloudscape 3:22pm, 3rd February 2000)
• Hazy sky with Megiathon class starship horizon cloud 3:38pm, 3rd February 2000)
• Hazy sky with Megiathon class starship horizon cloud 3:44pm, 3rd February 2000)
• Hazy twilight sky with Megiathon class starship horizon cloud 4:08pm, 3rd February 2000)
• Twilight sky with Megiathon class starship horizon cloud 4:22pm, 3rd February 2000)
• Hazy sky with light horizon cloud 3:22pm, 4th February 2000)
• Hazy pheonix sky with angled horizon cloud 3:44pm, 4th February 2000)
• Before dawn with some thin purple streaked high banded cloud 8:08am, 5th February 2000)
• Dawn approaching with some thin purple streaked high banded cloud 8:22am, 5th February 2000)
• Heavy purple-pink high banded cloud 9:08am, 5th February 2000)
• Heavy lava flow cloud 2:38pm, 5th February 2000)
• Darkened cloud scape with some purple streaks 3:38pm, 5th February 2000)
• Dramatic banded purple-pink cloudscape 8:38am, 6th February 2000)
• Dramatic banded purple-pink cloudscape 8:44am, 6th February 2000)
• Cloudscape 9:08am, 6th February 2000)
• Heavy Cloudscape with horizon cracks 9:22am, 6th February 2000)
• Heavy Cloudscape with big horizon cracks 12:08pm, 6th February 2000)
• Cloudscape 2:44pm, 6th February 2000)
• Heavy purple pink Cloudscape 4:08pm, 6th February 2000)
• Heavy cloudscape with pink flashes 4:22pm, 6th February 2000)
• Heavy cloudscape with pink/white flashes 4:38pm, 6th February 2000)
• Twilight blue cloudscape with purple-pink flash cloud 5:08pm, 6th February 2000)
• Heavy cloudscape 10:08am, 7th February 2000)
• Heavy storm waves of cloud 2:44pm, 7th February 2000)
• Heavy hazy cloudscape 3:08pm, 7th February 2000)
• Heavy cloudscape with flashcloud 3:22pm, 7th February 2000)
• Heavy cloudscape 3:44pm, 7th February 2000)
• Heavy dark cloudscape 4:08pm, 7th February 2000)
• Heavy darkened cloudscape 9:08am, 8th February 2000)
• Ghosty cloudscape 9:22am, 8th February 2000)
• Bluesky twilight with cloud train 4:44pm, 8th February 2000)
• Pre-dawn sun hitting high wistful clouds 8:08am, 9th February 2000)
• Cloudscape 3:08pm, 9th February 2000)
• Starship horizon cloud and jet vapour trail 4:08pm, 9th February 2000)
• Starship horizon cloud and overhang starship cloud on intercept course 4:22pm, 9th February 2000)
• Heavy purple cloud scape with features 9:38am, 10th February 2000)
• Wild Pheonix cloudscape 3:44pm, 10th February 2000)
• Pheonix cloudscape, some pillow clouds and starship horizon cloud 4:08pm, 10th February 2000)
• Pinky red horizon cloud and pinky red overhang cloud 4:38pm, 10th February 2000)
• Pillow cloud scouting in force 4:44pm, 10th February 2000)
• Morning and some shadow cloud 8:08am, 11th February 2000)
• Morning and some wistful shadow cloud 8:22am, 11th February 2000)
• Dramatic Cloudscape 4:08pm, 11th February 2000)
• Cirrus horizon cloud and overhang pillow cloud 4:22pm, 11th February 2000)
• Purple overhang cloud 3:22pm, 12th February 2000)
• Cloudscape 4:08pm, 12th February 2000)
• Murky purple cloudscape 4:44pm, 12th February 2000)
• Shadow cloud well after sunset 5:08pm, 12th February 2000)
• Wispy clouds before sunrise 7:44am, 13th February 2000)
• Skyscape 8:08am, 13th February 2000)
• Skyscape 4:08pm, 13th February 2000)
• Some Cirrus horizon cloud 4:22pm, 13th February 2000)
• Cloudless twilight 4:44pm, 13th February 2000)
• Distant cloud trains and jet vapour trail 4:44pm, 14th February 2000)
• Pre dawn and horizon shadow cloud and escort 7:44am, 15th February 2000)
• Pheonix sky and vapour trails 8:08am, 15th February 2000)
• Cloudscape 1:08pm, 15th February 2000)
• The "Devil's Nightlight" wrecks again another good morning view 7:08am, 16th February 2000)
• The "Devil's Nightlight" wrecking a good cloud view 7:22am, 16th February 2000)
• Dramatic cloudscape 8:22am, 16th February 2000)
• Purple cloudscape 9:08am, 16th February 2000)
• Winded Purple cloudscape 11:38am, 16th February 2000)
• Deep Purple cloudscape 12:38pm, 16th February 2000)
• Donut skyscape 2:38pm, 16th February 2000)
• Arch skyscape 2:44pm, 16th February 2000)
• Pictureframe Cloudscape 4:38pm, 16th February 2000)
• Specs of purple flame on heavy cloud 7:38am, 17th February 2000)
• Cirrus horizon cloud and close packed stampeding herd of pillow cloud 8:08am, 17th February 2000)
• Overhang pink/white Cirrus cloud and starship horizon cloud in background 8:22am, 17th February 2000)
• Heavy purple cloudscape 3:22pm, 17th February 2000)
• Heavy purple cloudscape 3:44pm, 17th February 2000)
• Banded cloudscape with features and purple streaks 7:44am, 18th February 2000)
• Cloudscape 8:08am, 18th February 2000)
• Cloudscape 8:08am, 18th February 2000)
• Cloudscape 4:08pm, 18th February 2000)
• Facist Nightlight wrecks red crack of dawn shot 7:08am, 19th February 2000)
• Purple overhang cloud and wide horizon crack 8:22am, 19th February 2000)
• Purple overhang cloud and wide horizon crack 4:22pm, 19th February 2000)
• Unbelievable!!! Facist Nightlight wrecks red flaming dawn shot!! Is there no end to its tyrrany 7:08am, 20th February 2000)
• Misty flaming cloudscape 7:38am, 20th February 2000)
• The Evil Eye of the Evil Nightlight Opens 5:22pm, 20th February 2000)
• Purple horizon cloud 8:08am, 21st February 2000)
• Cloud train scape 4:08pm, 21st February 2000)
• Cirrus Cloud train scape and high thin misty cloud 4:22pm, 21st February 2000)
• Cirrus Cloud train scape and spome overhand pillow cloud 4:38pm, 21st February 2000)
• High horizon cloud with phoenix cloud 4:44pm, 22nd February 2000)
• Purple cloudscape 4:08pm, 22nd February 2000)
• Purple cloudscape with purple horizon cloud 4:22pm, 23rd February 2000)
• Blue sky and purple haze 7:38am, 25th February 2000)
• Blue sky and purple haze 7:44am, 25th February 2000)
• Stampeding pillow and cirrus cloud 4:38pm, 25th February 2000)
• Herd of pursuing pillow and cirrus cloud 4:44pm, 25th February 2000)
• Banded purple cloudscape 4:08pm, 26th February 2000)
• Heavy purple cloudscape 7:44am, 27th February 2000)
• Purple Cloudscape 1:44pm, 27th February 2000)
• Dramatic horizon shadow cloud 7:38am, 28th February 2000)
• Invasion cloudships coming into land 4:38pm, 28th February 2000)
• Cirrus and pillow cloud convoy 5:08pm, 28th February 2000)
• Distance Cirrus lava flow 5:22pm, 28th February 2000)
• Misty horizon cloud and bright purple scratch clouds 7:22am, 29th February 2000)
• Purple banded clouds with white streaks 7:44am, 29th February 2000)
• Heavy purple cloudscape with lava flow 10:08am, 29th February 2000)
• Steaming horozontal Cirrus cloud scape 4:38pm, 29th February 2000)
• Purple cloudscape with bright patches 7:08pm, 29th February 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"