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

Some Highlights of the DLSkyCam

October 2000

• Autumn glowing cloudscape 5:44pm, 1st October 2000)
• Flying nightlight - no doubt a landing airliner 6:44am, 3rd October 2000)
• Striking dawn cloudscape 7:08am, 4th October 2000)
• Twlight ghostly Autumn cloudscape 6:38pm, 4th October 2000)
• Twlight ghostly Autumn cloudscape 6:44pm, 4th October 2000)
• Wet morning 7:08am, 5th October 2000)
• Cloudscape 6:44pm, 6th October 2000)
• Raining before dawn 7:08am, 7th October 2000)
• Heavy predawn cloudscape 7:08am, 8th October 2000)
• Purple cloudscape and Autumn trees 5:22pm, 8th October 2000)
• Purple cloudscape and Autumn trees 5:44pm, 8th October 2000)
• Banded flaming pink dawn 7:38am, 9th October 2000)
• Banded flaming pink dawn 7:44am, 9th October 2000)
• Flying nightlight of twilight 6:44pm, 11th October 2000)
• Predawn horizon cloud 7:08am, 13th October 2000)
• High matted cloud 5:38pm, 13th October 2000)
• High matted cloud 5:44pm, 13th October 2000)
• Heavy Lava cloudscape 3:44pm, 16th October 2000)
• Blue sky with wispy clouds 11:38am, 17th October 2000)
• Blue sky with wispy clouds 11:44am, 17th October 2000)
• Herd of pillow cloud 1:22pm, 17th October 2000)
• Concentrated herd of pillow cloud 1:38pm, 17th October 2000)
• Pillow cloud scape 2:08pm, 17th October 2000)
• Changing cloud scape 2:38pm, 17th October 2000)
• Changing cloud scape 2:38pm, 17th October 2000)
• Laminar cloud scape 9:38am, 18th October 2000)
• Receding laminar cloud scape 9:44am, 18th October 2000)
• Horizon pillow cloud on the rampage 4:38pm, 18th October 2000)
• Scouting pillow clouds 4:44pm, 18th October 2000)
• Pillow clouds on a twilight horizon 5:22pm, 18th October 2000)
• Blue sky before dawn 8:22am, 19th October 2000)
• Pillow clouds on the move 12:38pm, 19th October 2000)
• Pillow clouds on the move 12:44pm, 19th October 2000)
• Pillow clouds on the move 1:08pm, 19th October 2000)
• Pillow clouds on the move 1:44pm, 19th October 2000)
• Lava flow of pillow cloud 2:08pm, 19th October 2000)
• Dual cloud 2:22pm, 19th October 2000)
• Herd of pillow cloud on the move 2:44pm, 19th October 2000)
• Vulture cloud 4:22pm, 19th October 2000)
• Blue sky cloudscape 4:44pm, 19th October 2000)
• Twilight horizon pillow cloud 5:08pm, 19th October 2000)
• Lava cloudscape 2:08pm, 21st October 2000)
• Heavy lava flow cloudscape 2:22pm, 21st October 2000)
• Purple grey sky and cloud lava flows in the distance 3:44pm, 21st October 2000)
• Purple grey cloudscape and some evidence of blue sky above 4:08pm, 21st October 2000)
• Dramatic overhang pillow clouds and high fishnet cloud above 4:22pm, 21st October 2000)
• Convoys of pillow clouds 4:38pm, 21st October 2000)
• Pink smouldering pillow clouds of twilight 5:08pm, 21st October 2000)
• Dark pink smouldering pillow overhang cloud of twilight 5:08pm, 21st October 2000)
• Ghostly cloudscape of dawn 8:22am, 22nd October 2000)
• Ghostly cloudscape of dawn 8:38am, 22nd October 2000)
• Ghostly cloudscape of dawn 8:44am, 22nd October 2000)
  • Overhang clouds of dawn 8:38am, 23rd October 2000)
  • High pillow clouds of dawn 8:44am, 23rd October 2000)
  • Dark overhang cloud engulfs the sky 9:08am, 23rd October 2000)
  • Cloud and sky scape 9:22am, 23rd October 2000)
  • Blowing dune like cloudscape 11:38am, 23rd October 2000)
  • Blowing dune like cloudscape 11:44am, 23rd October 2000)
  • Purple cloudscape 1:08pm, 23rd October 2000)
  • Dramatic heavy cloudscape 1:44pm, 23rd October 2000)
  • Windy cloudscape 2:08pm, 23rd October 2000)
  • Wind blown cloudscape 2:22pm, 23rd October 2000)
  • Engulfing cloudscape 2:38pm, 23rd October 2000)
  • Dramatic cloudscape 2:44pm, 23rd October 2000)
  • Dramatic volcanic cloudscape 3:08pm, 23rd October 2000)
  • Dramatic volcanic cloudscape 3:22pm, 23rd October 2000)
  • Dramatic, explosive volcanic cloudscape 3:38pm, 23rd October 2000)
  • Dramatic, explosive volcanic mushroom cloudscape 3:44pm, 23rd October 2000)
  • Receding overhang cloud and blue sky 4:22pm, 23rd October 2000)
  • Twilight and herd of sillouetted(sp?) pillow cloud 4:38pm, 23rd October 2000)
• Cloudscape 3:38pm, 25th October 2000)
• Cloudscape 3:44pm, 25th October 2000)
• Engulfing cloud enters stage right 4:38pm, 25th October 2000)
• Overhang cloud while twilight approaches 4:44pm, 25th October 2000)
• Smouldering overhang ball of flame cloud 8:44am, 26th October 2000)
• Engulfing horizon cloud 9:08am, 26th October 2000)
• Horizon Cirrus cloud 9:22am, 26th October 2000)
• Overhang clouds 9:38am, 26th October 2000)
• Mellow pillow clouds in the distance 10:22am, 26th October 2000)
• Boiling cloudscape 10:38am, 26th October 2000)
• Pillow cloud on the horizon 10:44am, 26th October 2000)
• Pillow cloud on the horizon 11:08am, 26th October 2000)
• Grim cloudscape 11:44am, 26th October 2000)
• Heavy cloudscape 12:08pm, 26th October 2000)
• Cloudscape 12:22pm, 26th October 2000)
• Horizon Cirrus cloud 12:38pm, 26th October 2000)
• Grim horizon cloudscape 1:08pm, 26th October 2000)
• Grim stormscape 2:08pm, 26th October 2000)
• Train of Cirrus pillow cloud 2:08pm, 27th October 2000)
• Twilight hazy cloudscape 4:08pm, 27th October 2000)
• Train of twilight pillow cloud 4:22pm, 27th October 2000)
• Twilight blue sky 4:44pm, 27th October 2000)
• Boiling grim cloudscape 2:44pm, 28th October 2000)
• Boiling cloudscape 3:08pm, 28th October 2000)
• Angelic cloudscape 3:22pm, 28th October 2000)
• Wall of grim cloud 4:22pm, 28th October 2000)
• Dark bands of cloud 4:38pm, 28th October 2000)
• Horsehead horizon cloud 4:44pm, 28th October 2000)
• Erupting pink flaming cloud of twilight 5:08pm, 28th October 2000)
• Dramatic cloudscape 10:38am, 29th October 2000)
• Blue sky and wispy horizon cloud 11:38am, 30th October 2000)
• Blue sky and wispy horizon cloud 11:44am, 30th October 2000)
• Blue sky and wispy horizon cloud 2:38pm, 30th October 2000)
• Fast approaching wraith cloud 2:44pm, 30th October 2000)
• Fast moving wraith cloud on the horizon 3:08pm, 30th October 2000)
• Plateau cloud on the horizon 3:38pm, 30th October 2000)
• Plateau cloud on the horizon 3:44pm, 30th October 2000)
• Flaming pink cloud of twilight 3:44pm, 30th October 2000)
• Dramatic cloudscape 3:38pm, 31st October 2000)
• Smouldering purple horizon cloudscape 3:44pm, 31st October 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"