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

Some Highlights of the DLSkyCam

June 2000

• Restrained, but still dramatic cloud scape of dawn 6:22am, 2nd June 2000)
• Dark cloud 5:08pm, 2nd June 2000)
• Dark cloud and some blue sky 8:08pm, 4th June 2000)
• Grim cloudscape 4:44pm, 5th June 2000)
• Grim cloudscape 5:44pm, 5th June 2000)
• High flying red flaming cloud implies the sun is on its way 5:08am, 6th June 2000)
• High flying pink flaming cloud implies the sun is near 5:22am, 6th June 2000)
• Dawn is here 5:38am, 6th June 2000)
• Grim, grey pillow cloud covers the sky 6:08pm, 6th June 2000)
• Flaming Cirrus cloud of twilight on the horizon 8:08pm, 6th June 2000)
• Darkening blue sky twilight 8:44pm, 6th June 2000)
• The red vapour, evidence of the dawn to be 4:44am, 7th June 2000)
• Upwardly mobile splashing cloudscape 7:44pm, 8th June 2000)
• Dramatic red dark glowing cloudscape of pre dawn 5:22am, 9th June 2000)
• Dramatic cloudscape of dawn 5:38am, 9th June 2000)
• The dawn sun enters into view 5:22am, 10th June 2000)
• Matted cloudscape 6:22pm, 10th June 2000)
• Flat wavy cloudscape 6:38pm, 10th June 2000)
• Flat wavy cloudscape 6:44pm, 10th June 2000)
• Dramatic flat cloudscape with flame streaks 7:22pm, 10th June 2000)
• Dramatic flat cloudscape with blast of sky 7:38pm, 10th June 2000)
• Dramatic flat cloudscape with diminishing blast of sky 7:44pm, 10th June 2000)
• Shadow horizon cloud and haloed dawn behind 5:08am, 11th June 2000)
• Shadow cloud and twilight blue sky 8:38pm, 11th June 2000)
• Shadow cloud and twilight blue sky 8:44pm, 11th June 2000)
• Shadow cloud covers the sky and white crack of dawn 6:08am, 12th June 2000)
• Blue sky and herd of pillow clouds 6:44pm, 12th June 2000)
• Blue sky and herd of pillow clouds 7:08pm, 12th June 2000)
• Blue sky and receding herd of pillow clouds 7:22pm, 12th June 2000)
• Expressway of cloud 7:44pm, 12th June 2000)
• Darkening expressway of cloud 8:08pm, 12th June 2000)
• Darkening expressway of cloud 8:22pm, 12th June 2000)
• Darkening expressway of cloud 8:38pm, 12th June 2000)
• Darkening cloudscape with pink evening flame cloud 8:44pm, 12th June 2000)
• Wraith cloudscape 8:08am, 13th June 2000)
• Wraith cloudscape 8:22am, 13th June 2000)
• Grim cloudscape 8:38am, 13th June 2000)
• Blue sky and scattered cloud 7:08pm, 13th June 2000)
• Blue sky and light cloud 7:38pm, 13th June 2000)
• Blue sky and receding light cloud 7:44pm, 13th June 2000)
• Blue sky, light cloud and vapour trails 8:08pm, 13th June 2000)
• Twilight cloud and darkening blue sky 8:44pm, 13th June 2000)
• Grim cloudscape 5:44pm, 14th June 2000)
• Grim cloudscape 6:08pm, 14th June 2000)
• High twilight cloud with bits of blue showing through 6:44pm, 14th June 2000)
• High white cloud 6:38pm, 15th June 2000)
• High white cloud 6:44pm, 15th June 2000)
• Receding high white cloud 7:08pm, 15th June 2000)
• Ghosty sky 7:22pm, 15th June 2000)
• Ghosty twilight sky 7:38pm, 15th June 2000)
• Ghosty twilight sky 8:38pm, 15th June 2000)
• Ghosty twilight sky 8:44pm, 15th June 2000)
• Dramatic dawn shadow cloud 5:08am, 16th June 2000)
• Dramatic dawn shadow cloud 5:22am, 16th June 2000)
• Sun starts to overwhelm dawn shadow cloud 5:38am, 16th June 2000)
• Sun starts to overwhelm dawn shadow cloud 5:44am, 16th June 2000)
• Sun hits the horizon 5:08am, 17th June 2000)
• Hazy red sunrise 5:22am, 17th June 2000)
• Hazy red sunrise 5:38am, 17th June 2000)
• Light horizon cloud and blue sky 5:44am, 17th June 2000)
• Ghosty cloud on a hazy sky 7:44pm, 17th June 2000)
• Sun hits the red horizon 5:08am, 18th June 2000)
• Rising sun and the red horizon 5:22am, 18th June 2000)
• Ghosty pink skyscape 5:38am, 18th June 2000)
• Ghosty pink skyscape 5:44am, 18th June 2000)
• Blue sky 4:38pm, 18th June 2000)
• Blue sky and drifting cloud 6:08pm, 18th June 2000)
• Blue sky and flying pheonix cloud 8:08pm, 18th June 2000)
• Hazy sky and the cars look on 4:38pm, 19th June 2000)
• Hazy sky and the cars look on 5:08pm, 19th June 2000)
• Hazy sky and the cars look on 6:08pm, 19th June 2000)
• Twilight sky 8:22pm, 20th June 2000)
• Pillow skyscape 7:38pm, 21st June 2000)
• Blue sky and horizon cloud 8:08pm, 21st June 2000)
• Twilight sky and horizon cloud 8:22pm, 21st June 2000)
• Twilight sky and flaming pink horizon cloud 8:44pm, 21st June 2000)
• Despite the horizon cloud, sun hits the camera 5:08am, 22nd June 2000)
• Heavy horizon cloud and blinding sun 5:22am, 22nd June 2000)
• Clouds with flaming pink horizon cloud 7:22pm, 22nd June 2000)
• Heavy cloud with flaming pink horizon cloud 8:22pm, 22nd June 2000)
• Dark cloud with final embers of flaming pink cloud 8:38pm, 22nd June 2000)
• Rampaging cloudscape 8:22pm, 23rd June 2000)
• Pink flaming wave of cloud as the sun rises 5:38am, 24th June 2000)
• Pink flaming wave of cloud as the sun rises 5:44am, 24th June 2000)
• Heavy horizon cloud shields the sun 6:08am, 24th June 2000)
• Heavy horizon cloud shields the sun 6:22am, 24th June 2000)
• Heavy cloudscape 6:38am, 24th June 2000)
• Grim cloudscape 3:38pm, 24th June 2000)
• Grim cloudscape 5:08pm, 24th June 2000)
• Grim cloudscape 5:22pm, 24th June 2000)
• Interesting dark cloudscape 7:08pm, 24th June 2000)
• Cloudscape with charging cirrus cloud on the horizon 8:22pm, 24th June 2000)
• Dark high horizon cloud with some flaming pink dawn cloud above 5:22am, 25th June 2000)
• Firebreak of horizon cloud 5:38am, 25th June 2000)
• Firebreak of horizon cloud 5:44am, 25th June 2000)
• Matted cloud and hazy sky 7:44pm, 25th June 2000)
• Matted cloud and twilight sky 8:08pm, 25th June 2000)
• Matted cloud and twilight sky 8:22pm, 25th June 2000)
• Wall of flame as dawn approaches 5:08am, 26th June 2000)
• Horizon cloud obscures the dawn wall of fire 5:22am, 26th June 2000)
• The dawn explodes 5:44am, 26th June 2000)
• Ghost like flaming vista 5:08am, 28th June 2000)
• Sun and ghost like flaming vista 5:22am, 28th June 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"