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

Some Highlights of the DLSkyCam

January 2000

• Hazy sky with some intermittent cloud 8:44am, 1st January 2000)
• Foggy 1:38pm, 1st January 2000)
• Foggy 2:38pm, 1st January 2000)
• Striking banded cloudscape 2:44pm, 2nd January 2000)
• Horizon cloud 3:22pm, 2nd January 2000)
• Haze and horizon cloud 3:38pm, 2nd January 2000)
• Horizon cloud and white haze 4:08pm, 2nd January 2000)
• Horizon and patchy cloud 11:44am, 3rd January 2000)
• Pink Cirrus like cloud blocks out the sky 2:44pm, 4th January 2000)
• Cirrus horizon cloud and hazy sky 3:08pm, 4th January 2000)
• Some Cirrus cloud on hazy horizon 3:22pm, 4th January 2000)
• Patchy pinkish pillow clouds 3:38pm, 4th January 2000)
• Horizon cloud and purple sky 9:38am, 5th January 2000)
• Starship horizon cloud and purple sky 11:38am, 5th January 2000)
• Horizon cloud and purple sky 11:44am, 5th January 2000)
• Cirrus horizon cloud and overhead vulture cloud 3:08pm, 5th January 2000)
• Horizon cloud and overhead cloud 3:22pm, 5th January 2000)
• Dramatic cloud scape 3:38pm, 5th January 2000)
• Dramatic cloud scape 11:22am, 6th January 2000)
• Trough like cloud scape 2:22pm, 6th January 2000)
• Waves of on-coming cloud and overhang cloud 2:38pm, 6th January 2000)
• Waves of on-coming cloud 2:44pm, 6th January 2000)
• Narrow bridge of cloud 3:22pm, 6th January 2000)
• Flame purple dawn cloud scape with light getting in the way 8:08am, 7th January 2000)
• Hazy purple skyscape with horizon cloud 9:38am, 7th January 2000)
• Hazy purple skyscape with horizon cloud 10:08am, 7th January 2000)
• Heavy Cloud scape 1:44pm, 7th January 2000)
• Clearish sky dawn 8:44am, 8th January 2000)
• Clearish sky day 10:08am, 8th January 2000)
• Charging cloudscape 2:38pm, 8th January 2000)
• Starbarge cloudscape 2:44pm, 8th January 2000)
• Landbridge cloudscape 3:08pm, 8th January 2000)
• Cirrus turtle cloudscape 3:22pm, 8th January 2000)

• 9th January 2000. Flame Storm Cloud Formations above Daresbury
  • Flaming Storm Cloud over Daresbury (8:38am, 9th January 2000)
  • Pillars on pink Cirrus cloud on the horizon (9:08am, 9th January 2000)
  • Pink smokey horizon (9:38am, 9th January 2000)
  • Banded pink smoke cloud (10:08am, 9th January 2000)
  • Pinky black smoke cloud covers the sky (10:22am, 9th January 2000)
  • Waves of smokey cloud (10:38am, 9th January 2000)
  • Layers of smokey cloud (11:22am, 9th January 2000)
  • Cloudscape (12:22pm, 9th January 2000)
  • Forboding Cloudscape (1:08pm, 9th January 2000)
  • Cloudscape (1:22pm, 9th January 2000)
  • Sky covering Cirrus cloudscape (2:38pm, 9th January 2000)
  • Sooty pink cloudscape (2:44pm, 9th January 2000)
  • Flaming pink overhang cloud (3:08pm, 9th January 2000)
  • Stampeding Flaming pink overhang cloud (3:22pm, 9th January 2000)
  • Sooty purple overhang cloud (3:38pm, 9th January 2000)
  • Intermittent road-trains of Cirrus cloud (3:44pm, 9th January 2000)
  • Twilight and dark overhang cloud (4:08pm, 9th January 2000)

• Hazy cloud scape (10:38am, 11th January 2000)
• Purple cloudscape with features (12:22pm, 11th January 2000)
• Purple cloudscape with features (12:38pm, 11th January 2000)
• Purple cloudscape with features (1:38pm, 11th January 2000)
• Evidence of heavy rainfall (5:22pm, 12th January 2000)
• Baggy Cloudscape (2:22pm, 13th January 2000)
• Horizon cloud with wrath cloud (2:44pm, 13th January 2000)
• Dramatic cloudscape (3:44pm, 13th January 2000)
• Pre dawn horizon cloud (8:38am, 14th January 2000)
• Sand banks of horizon cloud (9:08am, 14th January 2000)
• Oncoming wave of cloud and horizon cloud (9:44am, 14th January 2000)
• Sky covering cloud (12:08pm, 14th January 2000)
• Sky covering cloud with lights (4:22pm, 14th January 2000)
• Pre dawn sand banks of horizon cloud (8:38am, 15th January 2000)
• Cloudscape (9:44am, 15th January 2000)
• Sky covering cloud with crack of light on the horizon (12:08pm, 16th January 2000)
• Dark sky covering cloud (9:22am, 17th January 2000)
• Oncoming waves of sky covering cloud (10:38am, 17th January 2000)
• Dramatic approach of thick cloud (2:22pm, 21st January 2000)
• Sky covering cloud. Purple streaks near the horizon (2:44pm, 21st January 2000)
• Dramatic sky covering cloud with dark overhang cloud (3:08pm, 21st January 2000)
• Dramatic sky covering cloud with dark overhang cloud (3:22pm, 21st January 2000)
• Bright sky covering cloudscape (12:22pm, 22nd January 2000)
• Sky covering cloudscape (2:08pm, 22nd January 2000)
• Thick sky covering cloudscape (2:22pm, 22nd January 2000)
• Dawn with some horizon cloud (8:38am, 23rd January 2000)
• Dawn with some horizon cloud (8:44am, 23rd January 2000)
• Cloudscape (3:08pm, 23rd January 2000)
• Dramatic cloud barges enter from stage left (3:22pm, 23rd January 2000)
• Large prototype Eurofighter (or F18?) cunningly disguised as cloud (3:38pm, 23rd January 2000)
• Bridging cloudscape (3:44pm, 23rd January 2000)
• Dramatic purple and pink cloudscape (4:08pm, 23rd January 2000)
• Cloud trains exit stage right (4:22pm, 23rd January 2000)
• Bland sky covering cloud (9:14am, 24th January 2000)
• Stormy cloud with possible twister evident? (12:38pm, 24th January 2000)
• Wraith cloud (2:08pm, 25th January 2000)
• Sky covering cloudscape (12:38pm, 28th January 2000)
• Sky covering cloudscape, with features (1:08pm, 28th January 2000)
• Sky covering cloudscape, with features (1:38pm, 28th January 2000)
• Dramatic stormy cloudscape (9:08am, 29th January 2000)
• Baggy sky covering cloudscape (1:08pm, 29th January 2000)
• Purple horizon cloud on purple sky (2:44pm, 29th January 2000)
• Purple horizon cloud on purple sky (3:08pm, 29th January 2000)
• Sky covering cloudscape (1:38pm, 30th January 2000)
• Cloud covering skyscape (2:08pm, 30th January 2000)
• Cloud covering skyscape (2:38pm, 30th January 2000)
• Thick purple sky, bright ground (3:38pm, 30th January 2000)
• Sky covering cloudscape. Thicker cloud entering stage left. (1:08pm, 31st January 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"