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

Some Highlights of the DLSkyCam

July 2000

• Grim cloud with purple streaks 6:38am, 6th July 2000)
• Grim cloud with purple ghosting 6:44am, 6th July 2000)
• Rolling cloudscape 6:38pm, 7th July 2000)
• Grim cloudscape 7:08pm, 7th July 2000)
• Grim cloudscape 7:22pm, 7th July 2000)
• Dark mountain range of cloudscape 6:22am, 8th July 2000)
• Dark mountain range of cloudscape 6:38am, 8th July 2000)
• Grim cloudscape 7:22am, 8th July 2000)
• Grim cloudscape 7:44am, 8th July 2000)
• Lava flow cloudscape 6:44pm, 9th July 2000)
• Grim dramatic cloudscape 6:44pm, 10th July 2000)
• Blue sky and matt of medium cloud 7:08pm, 10th July 2000)
• Blue sky and forming cloud 7:22pm, 10th July 2000)
• Approaching twilight cloud 7:38pm, 10th July 2000)
• Twilight cloud 7:44pm, 10th July 2000)
• Enveloping twilight cloud 8:08pm, 10th July 2000)
• Enveloping twilight cloud 8:22pm, 10th July 2000)
• Enveloping twilight cloud 8:38pm, 10th July 2000)
• Enveloping twilight cloud 8:44pm, 10th July 2000)
• Red flaming ember clouds of dawn 5:08am, 11th July 2000)
• The sun rises 5:22am, 11th July 2000)
• Mellow blue sky pillow cloudscape 6:22pm, 11th July 2000)
• Mellow blue sky pillow cloudscape 6:38pm, 11th July 2000)
• Mellow blue sky pillow cloudscape 7:08pm, 11th July 2000)
• Mellow blue sky pillow cloudscape 7:22pm, 11th July 2000)
• Mellow blue sky pillow cloudscape 7:38pm, 11th July 2000)
• Mellow blue sky pillow cloudscape 7:44pm, 11th July 2000)
• Twilight blue sky pillow cloudscape 8:08pm, 11th July 2000)
• Twilight blue sky pillow cloudscape 8:22pm, 11th July 2000)
• Twilight blue sky pillow cloudscape 8:38pm, 11th July 2000)
• Twilight blue sky pillow cloudscape 8:44pm, 11th July 2000)
• Grim cloudscape and purple streaks 7:44am, 12th July 2000)
• Grim cloudscape 5:08pm, 13th July 2000)
• Purple boiling horizon cloudscape 5:38pm, 13th July 2000)
• Dark cloudscape with bright purple streaks 6:38am, 14th July 2000)
• Convoy cloudscape 6:38pm, 14th July 2000)
• Convoys of pillow clouds 7:38pm, 14th July 2000)
• Blue sky and pillow clouds 7:44pm, 14th July 2000)
• Blue sky and pillow cloud 8:08pm, 14th July 2000)
• Blue sky and horizon pillow cloud 8:22pm, 14th July 2000)
• Twlilight sky 8:38pm, 14th July 2000)
• Twlilight sky 8:44pm, 14th July 2000)
• Black horizon cloud and flaming red streak of dawn 5:22am, 15th July 2000)
• High matted flaming pink cloud of dawn 5:38am, 15th July 2000)
• High matted flaming pink and white cloud of dawn 5:44am, 15th July 2000)
• Grim cloudscape 7:38pm, 15th July 2000)
• Grim cloudscape and patch of blue sky 7:44pm, 15th July 2000)
• Twilight sky and cloud 8:44pm, 15th July 2000)
• Blue sky and some pillow cloud 7:08pm, 16th July 2000)
• Blue sky and some pillow cloud 7:22pm, 16th July 2000)
• Blue sky and pillow cloud 7:38pm, 16th July 2000)
• Grim cloudscape with purple streak 7:08am, 17th July 2000)
• Blue sky 7:08pm, 17th July 2000)
• Flaming red horizon cloud of dawn 5:22am, 18th July 2000)
• Flaming pink and white horizon cloud of dawn 5:38am, 18th July 2000)
• Flaming red horizon vapour of dawn 5:22am, 19th July 2000)
• Vapour cloud on a blue sky 6:38pm, 19th July 2000)
• Blue Sky 7:08pm, 20th July 2000)
• Flaming red vapour of dawn 5:38am, 21st July 2000)
• Flaming red vapour of dawn 5:44am, 21st July 2000)
• Enveloping layer of dawn cloud 5:08am, 21st July 2000)
• Hazy enveloping cloud 7:08pm, 21st July 2000)
• Red flaming vapour trails of dawn 5:22am, 22nd July 2000)
• Red flaming and pink vapour trails of dawn 5:38am, 22nd July 2000)
• Red flaming and pink vapour trails of dawn 5:44am, 22nd July 2000)
• Blue sky and wispy haze 7:08pm, 22nd July 2000)
• Twilight blue sky and wispy haze 8:22pm, 22nd July 2000)
• Cloudscape 4:44pm, 23rd July 2000)
• High matted twilight cloudscape 7:08pm, 26th July 2000)
• High matted twilight cloudscape 7:22pm, 26th July 2000)
• Blue sky and pinkish twilight pillow cloud 7:08pm, 27th July 2000)
• Twilight sky and ghosty cloud 7:22pm, 27th July 2000)
• Flaming pink and red scattered cloud of dawn 5:38pm, 28th July 2000)
• Flaming pink scattered cloud of dawn 5:44pm, 28th July 2000)
• Mountainous cloudscape 7:22pm, 28th July 2000)
• Mountainous cloudscape with purple streaks 7:38pm, 28th July 2000)
• Dramatic twilight purple horizon cloudscape with streaking 7:44pm, 28th July 2000)
• Dawn horizon cloud with flaming red tips 5:44am, 29th July 2000)
• Enveloping high white cloud 6:18pm, 29th July 2000)
• Enveloping high white matted cloud 6:22pm, 29th July 2000)
• Twilight high matted cloud 7:08pm, 29th July 2000)
• Twilight high matted cloud 7:44pm, 29th July 2000)
• Dramatic grim cloudscape 7:08pm, 30th July 2000)
• Dramatic grim cloudscape, some blue sky and flaming pink tops 7:22pm, 30th July 2000)
• Dark grim cloudscape 7:38pm, 30th July 2000)
• High matted cloudscape 6:22pm, 31st July 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"