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

Some Highlights of the DLSkyCam

March 2000

• Fascisty Nightlight outside C14 wrecks morning shadow horizon cloudscape 6:44am, 1st March 2000)
• Cloudscape 7:38am, 1st March 2000)
• Violent horizon cloudscape 7:44am, 1st March 2000)
• Cloudless twilight 5:38pm, 1st March 2000)
• Misty flaming dawn 7:08am, 4th March 2000)
• Misty flaming rainbow cloud 7:44am, 4th March 2000)
• Cirrus horizon cloud with jet vapour trail 4:44pm, 4th March 2000)
• Shadow cloud twilight 5:38pm, 4th March 2000)
• Purple cloud scape with white cloud behind 4:44pm, 5th March 2000)
• Malicious Nightlight outside C14 wrecks dim red flaming twilight cloudscape 6:08pm, 5th March 2000)
• Bland purple cloudscape 4:22pm, 6th March 2000)
• Windy high purple cloudscape 4:38pm, 6th March 2000)
• Heavy purple cloudscape 5:08pm, 7th March 2000)
• Purple cloudscape 4:08pm, 8th March 2000)
• Purple cloudscape 4:22pm, 8th March 2000)
• Dark purple cloudscape 5:22pm, 8th March 2000)
• Patchy cloudscape with hazy purple horizon 7:08am, 9th March 2000)
• Heavy purple cloudscape 7:38am, 10th March 2000)
• Heavy purple cloudscape 3:22pm, 10th March 2000)
• Banded purple cloudscape 7:44am, 11th March 2000)
• Banded purple cloudscape 8:08am, 11th March 2000)
• Twilight horizon cloud and cloud train 5:38pm, 11th March 2000)
• Heavy purple cloudscape with lighter horizon 8:38am, 12th March 2000)
• Purple cloudscape 5:08pm, 13th March 2000)
• Dark purple cloudscape with red and light purple streaks 5:44pm, 13th March 2000)
• Imposing cloud mass 5:22pm, 14th March 2000)
• Hazy purple cloudscape 5:38pm, 14th March 2000)
• Fascist Nightlight outside C14 wrecks dramatic pre-dawn shadow cloud display 6:08am, 15th March 2000)
• Pink cloudscape and purple skyscape 7:08am, 15th March 2000)
• Purple cloudscape 3:08pm, 15th March 2000)
• Purple cloudscape 4:38pm, 16th March 2000)
• Slight banded purple cloudscape 4:44pm, 16th March 2000)
• Purple cloudscape 5:22pm, 16th March 2000)
• Dark purple cloudscape with flashes 5:44pm, 16th March 2000)
• Dawn dark purple cloudscape 7:22am, 17th March 2000)
• Dark purple cloudscape 7:44am, 17th March 2000)
• Rolling purple cloudscape 3:22pm, 17th March 2000)
• Tight rolling purple cloudscape 5:08pm, 17th March 2000)
• Heavy purple cloudscape 5:22pm, 17th March 2000)
• Dark purple cloudscape with reddened crack of dawn 6:44am, 18th March 2000)
• Banded purple and white cloudscape 7:08am, 18th March 2000)
• Cloudless hazy skyscape 5:44pm, 18th March 2000)
• Grim cloudscape 5:22pm, 20th March 2000)
• Ghosty cloudscape 6:38am, 24th March 2000)
• Ghosty cloudscape 6:44am, 24th March 2000)
• Dramatic cloudscape 5:22pm, 24th March 2000)
• Dramatic cloudscape continues 5:38pm, 24th March 2000)
• Dramatic cloudscape continues 5:44pm, 24th March 2000)
• Clouds against a reddened sunset 6:18pm, 24th March 2000)
• Dim Flamecloud After Horizon sunset 6:22pm, 24th March 2000)
• Flaming Ghost Dawn 6:22am, 25th March 2000)
• Massive Overhang Cloud 2:44pm, 25th March 2000)
• Dramatic Cloud Close Up 5:44pm, 25th March 2000)
• Dramatic Cloud Close Up with Eruption of White Cloud 5:47pm, 25th March 2000)
• Dramatic Cloud Close Up with Eruption of Erupting White Cloud Still Visible 5:53pm, 25th March 2000)
• Rolling Cloudscape with minute amounts of blue sky 6:08pm, 25th March 2000)
• The red glow and shadowed clouds before dawn 6:08am, 26th March 2000)
• Medium Clouds see the red and white glow of dawn 6:22am, 26th March 2000)
• High cloud sees the white rays of dawn 6:38am, 26th March 2000)
• Cloudscape 5:22pm, 26th March 2000)
• Cloudscape 5:38pm, 26th March 2000)
• Red Crack flame-furnace of dawn shows through the clouds 7:22am, 27th March 2000)
• Wider Red crack flame-furnace of dawn 7:38am, 27th March 2000)
• Red crack flame-furnace of dawn 7:44am, 27th March 2000)
• Heavy cloudscape 11:38am, 27th March 2000)
• Heavy cloudscape 12:38pm, 27th March 2000)
• Overhang cloudscape reveals Olympian(?) cloudscape 6:08pm, 27th March 2000)
• Heavy cloudscape 6:22pm, 27th March 2000)
• Overhang cloud and calm pillow cloudscape 6:38pm, 27th March 2000)
• Evening pillow cloudscape 7:08pm, 27th March 2000)
• Wide and high wraith horizon shadow cloud obscures high matted dawn cloud 7:38am, 28th March 2000)
• Black cloud obscures thin red cracks of dawn 8:08am, 28th March 2000)
• Enveloping pillow cloudscape and diffuse jet vapour trail 5:08pm, 28th March 2000)
• receding pillow clouds and diffuse jet vapour trail 5:22pm, 28th March 2000)
• Dragonscape pillow clouds in the evening 6:08pm, 28th March 2000)
• Pillow clouds of the evening 6:44pm, 28th March 2000)
• Dramatic flamescape of dawn 7:38am, 29th March 2000)
• Almost as dramatic flamescape of dawn 7:44am, 29th March 2000)
• Blinding white sunlight off the clouds 8:38am, 29th March 2000)
• Olympian style morning cloudscape 9:38am, 29th March 2000)
• Evening cloudscape 6:22pm, 29th March 2000)
• Evening horizon cloudscape 6:44pm, 29th March 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"