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

Some Highlights of the DLSkyCam

November 1999

• Heavy Cloud Scape (2:38pm, 5th October 1999)
• Blue sky and Clouds on the Horizon (3:22pm, 5th October 1999)
• Dark bands of Cloud (3:38pm, 5th October 1999)
• Dark bands of Cloud almost cover the blue sky (3:44pm, 5th October 1999)
• Blue Sky and small pillow clouds (7:44am, 6th October 1999)
• Blue Sky and more pillow clouds (8:22am, 6th October 1999)
• Some light flaming cloud (3:38am, 6th October 1999)
• Cosmic turtule disguised as large band of light flaming cloud (3:44pm, 6th October 1999)
• Cosmic turtule (disguised as large band of light flaming cloud) exits stage right (4:08am, 6th October 1999)
• Twilight, bluesky and a cloudscape (4:22am, 6th October 1999)
• Bands of cloud envelope the dawn (7:44am, 7th October 1999)
• Heavy low cloud (1:44pm, 8th October 1999)
• Early morning fog and mist scape (7:22am, 9th October 1999)
• Dawn approaches (7:38am, 9th October 1999)
• Streaks of Skyscape (8:44am, 9th October 1999)
• Pinkish cloud scape (3:22am, 9th October 1999)
• More pinkish cloud scape (3:38am, 9th October 1999)
• Who would be so insane as to hold back the night?
  • Clear Bright Blue Sky (11:38am, 10th October 1999)
  • Clear Bright Blue Sky (11:44am, 10th October 1999)
  • Some cloud starts to enter (12:08pm, 10th October 1999)
  • Medium Cloud (12:22pm, 10th October 1999)
  • More Cloud (12:38pm, 10th October 1999)
  • Cloud and some blue sky (12:44pm, 10th October 1999)
  • Heavy cloud flow in (1:08pm, 10th October 1999)
  • Heavy cloud (1:22pm, 10th October 1999)
  • Heavy cloud but blue sky visible (2:22pm, 10th October 1999)
  • Heavy cloud obscuring most of the sky (3:08pm, 10th October 1999)
  • Heavy cloud but some bits of blue (3:22pm, 10th October 1999)
  • Heavier cloud, little blue (3:22pm, 10th October 1999)
  • Heavy cloud, some high cloud and blue visible (3:22pm, 10th October 1999)
  • Dark Cloud and what blue there is smothered (4:08pm, 10th October 1999)
  • Darkness (4:22pm, 10th October 1999)
  • Darkness (4:38pm, 10th October 1999)
  • Darkness (4:44pm, 10th October 1999)
• Heavy cloud scape (12:44pm, 12th October 1999)
• Dark bands of CLoud (9:22am, 13th October 1999)
• Dark Cloudscape with features 3:08pm, 14th October 1999)
• Dark Cloudscape with features (3:38pm, 14th October 1999)
• Dark Cloud (4:22pm, 14th October 1999)
• Heavy Cloud (8:38am, 15th October 1999)
• Heavy Cloud (8:44am, 15th October 1999)
• Heavy Cloud with a further wave of heavy cloud (3:08pm, 15th October 1999)
• Heavy wave of cloud rolls over (3:22pm, 15th October 1999)
• Pinkish cloud and little bits of sky (8:08am, 16th October 1999)
• Very dark cloud and patch of pink cloud (8:22am, 16th October 1999)
• Dark cloud and pink cloud on the horizon (8:22am, 16th October 1999)
• A band of cloud and sky (9:08am, 16th October 1999)
• Very dark cloud but sun shining on the ground (12:08pm, 16th October 1999)
• Cloud and rainbow (12:38pm, 16th October 1999)
• Dark sky but bright buildings (12:44pm, 16th October 1999)
• Patchy Cirrus cloud and some bits of blue sky (2:08pm, 16th October 1999)
• Bits of pillow cloud float by (2:38pm, 16th October 1999)
• Band of cloud (2:44pm, 16th October 1999)
• Camel shaped cloud floats by (3:08pm, 16th October 1999)
• Dreamy clouds float by (3:22pm, 16th October 1999)
• Clear sky but some dreamy clouds flot by the horizon (3:22pm, 16th October 1999)
• Twilight approaching (3:22pm, 16th October 1999)
• Wistful cloudscape (8:08am, 17th October 1999)
• Wistful cloudscape (8:38am, 17th October 1999)
• Wistful, ghostlike cloudscape (8:44am, 17th October 1999)
• Wistful cloudscape (9:38am, 17th October 1999)
• Whiteout skyscape (2:08pm, 17th October 1999)
• Whiteout skyscape (2:22pm, 17th October 1999)
• Blue sky and twilight approaching (3:44pm, 17th October 1999)
• Blue sky and twilight approaching (3:38pm, 18th October 1999)
• Blue sky, bands of dreamy cloud on the horizon and twilight approaching (3:38pm, 18th October 1999)
• Hazy cloud scape and blue sky (8:22am, 19th October 1999)
• High hazy skyscape (8:38am, 19th October 1999)
• Blue sky (9:08am, 19th October 1999)
• Whiteout Cirrus Clouds float by (10:22am, 19th October 1999)
• Blue sky twilight (3:44pm, 19th October 1999)
• Hazy sky (8:38am, 20th October 1999)
• Slow whale cloud on a blue sky (10:08am, 20th October 1999)
• Lazy Cirrus clouds and blue sky (10:22am, 20th October 1999)
• H-bomb cirrus cloud covers the sky (1:38pm, 20th October 1999)
• H-bomb cirrus cloud covers the sky (1:38pm, 20th October 1999)
• Empire class star ship dark cloud flying over and into the horizon (2:44pm, 20th October 1999)
• Pink rising from the ground skyscape (3:08pm, 20th October 1999)
• Dark cloud almost obscures the twilight (3:38pm, 20th October 1999)
• Hazy cloud scape (8:38am, 21st October 1999)
• Heavy Cloud Scape (9:08am, 22nd October 1999)
• Cloud Scape and some bits of blue (10:08am, 22nd October 1999)
• Dark cloud overhead and whiteout cloud at the horizon (11:22am, 22nd October 1999)
• Pillow clouds and hazy sky (2:38pm, 22nd October 1999)
• Pillow clouds and hazy sky (2:44pm, 22nd October 1999)
• Dark band of cloud starts to cover the entire sky (3:08pm, 22nd October 1999)
• Pink pillow clouds on dark sky background as sunset approaches (3:22pm, 22nd October 1999)
• Heavy sky scape (9:08, 23rd October 1999)
• Heavy sky scape (9:38am, 24th October 1999)
• Heavy sky scape with features (1:44pm, 24th October 1999)
• Before Sunrise (8:08am, 25th October 1999)
• Sunrise (8:22am, 25th October 1999)
• Sunrise (8:38am, 25th October 1999)
• Hazy morning (8:44am, 25th October 1999)
• Two vapour trails (9:22am, 25th October 1999)
• Cloud Scape (2:38pm, 25th October 1999)
• Cloud Scape (3:08pm, 25th October 1999)
• Cloud Scape (3:22pm, 25th October 1999)
• Dark Sky and Cloud (3:44pm, 25th October 1999)
• Blue sky sunrise (8:38am, 27th October 1999)
• Pink flaming skyscape (8:38am, 28th October 1999)
• Pink flaming skyscape (9:08am, 29th October 1999)
• Cloud scape (9:22am, 29th October 1999)
• Cloud scape (10:08am, 29th October 1999)
• Cloud scape (10:44am, 29th October 1999)
• Cloud scape with some blue sky (11:08am, 29th October 1999)
• Blue sky and cloud scape (11:22am, 29th October 1999)
• Blue sky and minor herd of pillow cloud (3:08pm, 29th October 1999)
• Blue sky sunset with some pink cloud on horizen (3:44pm, 29th October 1999)
• High dark cloud (9:38am, 30th October 1999)
• High band of dark cloud (9:44am, 30th October 1999)
• Cloud Scape (12:08pm, 30th October 1999)
• Medium heavy cloud (12:22pm, 30th October 1999)
• Heavy Cloud (1:44pm, 30th October 1999)

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"