the AKHLog V4

Since the site upgrade well over a week ago, YoYo Games has returned to it’s former slooooooow loading speed. Then overtaken it. By going slower.

Yes, I know, bad choice of words.

After 8 days of Internal Sever Errors, the YoYo Team finally decided to make a Glog post telling everyone what they’re doing to fix things around the site. As always, the Announcement was met with much criticism, and there is no surprise in that, what’s surprising is the sheer aggression shown by some of the members of YoYo below Mark Overmars’ words in the last two days ;P …

… in the YoYo Games Glog Post “Website Slowness” …

Mark Overmars wrote:

“As you have most likely experienced, the website is currently rather slow. This is probably due to some of the changes that have been made to the site. We are constantly monitoring the site and we will make further corrections/improvements to the site, hopefully also solving the slowness issue soon. Please have a little patience for the time being.”

…

jonny8679 wrote:

“I’m glad – the website keeps taking ages to load. I get the quickest speeds with Google Chrome, but Instant Play doesn’t work on it, which is depressing.”

gmgex wrote:

“i can tell yall what it is not to be rude but its because of the 10,000 or more noob games that have a lot of space needs… it gets slower each day…”

Mark Overmars wrote:

“It has nothing to do with the number of games on the site. That is why there is a database behind the site. That will make queries (normally) fast, independent of the number of games.

Some logic was added to the site, like e.g. showing the total number of plays on the home page. I assume that one of the many changes made costs a lot of time to compute. This is being investigated at the moment.“

Caniac wrote:

“Cool, I hope you fix the slowness issues soon . hows the mac port? (thats my favorite question)”

gmgex wrote:

“well can it do with your out of date sever that can be easily hacked/edited from any home based computer in the world that has INTERNET access. Apache/2.2.3 is out of date already you might want to think about updating to Apache/2.2.9 where its not so easy to hack there are many sites telling you how to hack Apache/2.2.3 and if i wanted i could shut down yoyo ( i wouldn’t because i love it) thats a flaw that could be causing problems.

Thanks,
Gmgex“

[OK, no one bring down YoYo <_< >_> I'm looking at you burnys.]

Wireless wrote:

“Forget yoyogames, it seems like it is the only thing you are thinking about, but everyone else are not. we want updates on gm8.
And about the site, you might think about change to Linux (if you already haven’t), it’s almost impossible to hack, and it is the most stable os.”

gmgex wrote:

“ok Ive also found out that Apache/2.2.3 has a major bug:

An off-by-one flaw exists in the Rewrite module, mod_rewrite. Depending on the manner in which Apache httpd was compiled, this software defect may result in a vulnerability which, in combination with certain types of Rewrite rules in the web server configuration files, could be triggered remotely. For vulnerable builds, the nature of the vulnerability can be denial of service (crashing of web server processes) or potentially allow arbitrary code execution.

basically the reason yours goes slow.

Thanks,
Gmgex”

mrsmes wrote:

“then we must, upgrade to Apache/2.2.9″

[that'll be the first change to come when mrsmes buys YoYo XD]

shirsakbc wrote:

“What is this Apache/2.2.9 ?”

gmgex wrote:

“well its the program that allows u to see the webpages inasense.”

ajk321 wrote:

“shirsakbc it is the processor of the html, php… codes. it decodes them and displays as text/images/flash/etc…

and i cant believe u guys haven’t updated, who’s the server lead??
hit urself for me
“

gmgex wrote:

“ok after clicking around i got the error again here is how i know what server you use:

Proxy Error

The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request GET /games/show/45375.

Reason: Error reading from remote server

Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch11 Server at http://www.yoyogames.com Port 80

its random error

same with your php server 5.2.0 is out of date new version is 5.2.6 i suggest you guys update your stuff.

thanks,
Gmgex”

FallenMaster wrote:

“Note: My dad would beat ya silly if he saw how you are using “Justify”-align in the blog post, 21 px between words ftl .“

in the latest HAWK’S DOCK news, most of you will be aware of the smes’ recent problems, both with uploading the dock to YoYo and the skin changing feature on the dock. Our soon-to-be billionare Computer System Developer presented his Game Maker problems to the YoYo Community in search of help, but he hasn’t had an awful lot of success, possibly due to the fact that he doesn’t seem to know the meaning of the word “but”.

That and he doesn’t look to be showing anyone the code that’s actually causing him the problems. :\

… in the Forum Topic “just a basic problem, possibly a coding error, but idk & can some one help?” …

mrsmes wrote:

“so here’s the code I have

Code:

“if room==skin1 with(layer1){sprite_index=spr_layer1}if room==skin2 with(layer1){sprite_index=spr_layer2}”

and so on, that’s just a example but I have a similar problem to that, but when I run my program it won’t change the sprite upon checking within the room start event, but I mean there is no variable room_index or anything to check, or set and yes that would simplify things a lot…”

astrangegamer wrote:

“try putting it on seperate lines if it isn’t already.
If it is, I can’t help you much since I don’t know a lot of GML myself.”

Xeno Daphron wrote:

“try making sure there is a room_index variable but aside from that I can’t help because I don’t know GML”

[don't help if you can't help. GM uses the variable room, not room_index]

GZ wrote:

“Separate lines automatically infer breaks, which are necessary between lines of code. So yes, line’s would definately be recomended, but add semi-colons between the different sections of the code. Without lines, the code would be:

Code:

“if room==skin1 with(layer1){sprite_index=spr_layer1}; if room==skin2 with(layer1){sprite_index=spr_layer2};”

With lines, it would be:

Code:

“if room==skin1
    {
    with(layer1)
        {
        sprite_index=spr_layer1;
        }
    }
if room==skin2
    {
    with(layer1)
        {
        sprite_index=spr_layer2;
        }
    }”"

chesswizz1993 wrote:

“simpler

Code:

“if room==skin1 
    { 
    with(layer1) 
    sprite_index=spr_layer1; 
    } 
if room==skin2 
    { 
    with(layer1) 
    sprite_index=spr_layer2; 
    }”"

GZ wrote:

“For me, the extra brackets make thing’s easier to understand. So I included them anyways.”

mrsmes wrote:

“thanks, I never thought of it using breaks that way, if I still get errors I will give feed back…
Edit: Wow it works for real, now all I have to do, is check for when the player changes the skin number we change the room.”

…

“drat not another error:
Ran into a error when I tried to fix the room changing which doesn’t work, more info:
well, I can’t upload the game, with the game uploader, and currently I have fixed the skin problem and trashed the minimize thing even worst and now when I try to change rooms to change the skin it won’t, but even instead what does it do on bootup it just makes the buttons reverse there functionality and so they are now always transparent and only not when you hover above them which is not meant to happen and the close button doesn’t even work, as you can see I’m in a tight situation here…
Any help I could get after you taking a examination of the .gmk would be very helpful, and perhaps even fix it, and well right now it’s a rough start but maybe showing you the codes though a series of pms is a better solution, and showing the code I used and where, and what extensions I used and those 2 minor problems waiting to be fixed within the dock, are just all that need to be fixed and then I think I have fixed the rest of the dock…”

I wrote:

“We would need to see what code you’re using here in order to help you mrsmes.

Do you have an object that lets the user selects the skin, and then the room is changed according to what they picked? is the error there? or is it with working out what room you’re in?”

Next up today I’m giving you all an update on the latest happenings here at the AKHLog, with a look at the comments on my post yesterday …

… on my post “A Challenger Appears + FredFrederickson Leave the GMC” …

I wrote:

“*posted at 13:37*

Also, 3,171 words. “

Pilot wrote:

“…I insulted him on his blog, and I was Wootman. I set out to attack him, and it’s going well >:^D”

tigerdude1993 wrote:

“maybe he won’t post them on his blog because he doesn’t have them. i’ll see if he can actually give me one. i’ll email him.”

[referring to thetruthoracle claiming he had tigerdude's PMs]

Timmah3000 wrote:

“Timmahh!!!!!!!”

[DAMN YOU D:<]

~Cookies&Cream~ wrote:

“XD I have no idea who Alex and ZiggyX200 are, but holy crap, they are awesome =D. ZiggyX200 especially cause he told that idiot to shut up

O…..M……G……Lulzords is so passe dude. XD by like…umm I dunno, 5 years? How lame. =D Love that smiley though *saves*

>.> Oh I forgot….Taggy waggy(yes that’s you’re new nickname…I thought tigerass was a bit too harsh), you look funny. *giggle* Well not really, and it’s definately not in the bad way, but I didn’t think you looked as…ummm serious? Hehe.”

Hans Zimmer wrote:

“That thread was like watching a train wreck.

If you were watching when people were logging off and on, it was pretty obvious who the impostor was (eg. Real account logs on, posts then logs off. Impostor logs on, posts then logs off. Repeat cycle).

Pilot, do you realise that the person which you’re ‘attacking’ reads this blog too? Way to give yourself away…”

tigerdude1993 wrote:

“hahahaha, thanks firefall i gotcha.”

And lastly for today comes the news that smessy has gone into hiding again. Who from this time? Why, it’s the CIA.

Lulz.

… in the Forum Topic “Lego GTA Bumped to Late 2009″ …

mrsmes wrote:

“I’ll gladly rip copy righted material like Lego sprites and give them to you for
non commercial usage, they say if you use them for commercial usage or non
commercial usage they will come after you if it’s copy righted material yet, I
do it all the time and they never catch me, uh, uh… they never catch me, say
what was that music track from the movie “Catch Me If You Can” *Sings They’ll
never catch me(P.S. I made that rap song up by myself)*
Let’s hit it:
“1, Uh… 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, They’ll never catch me, uh… uh, they’ll never catch
me, eh… oh… what you gonna do now, I’m saying what you guys gonna do now,
uh… uh, yeah because your staring at me, like your the CIA, but they’ll never
catch me, uh… uh, they’ll never catch me, eh… oh… what you gonna do now,
I’m saying you guys gonna do now uh… uh, yeah because your staring at me, like
your the CIA, I’m on the run but they’ll never catch me, eh… I hear all those
cop cars in the distance, they say you can’t run for ever, but I know smarter,
keep on smarter, keep on smarter I’m a more intelligent, Let’s take a cop
runner, boys were on the run, downloading illegal music and pirated movies and
ripping resources and getting them off our tail because you guys can turn back
if you want now, because they’ll never catch me, uh… uh, they’ll never catch
me, eh… oh… what you gonna do now, because your staring at me like your the
CIA, but they’ll never catch me, yeah they’ll never catch me…”
One more chorus Boys:
“1, Uh… 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, They’ll never catch me, uh… uh, they’ll never catch
me, eh… oh… what you gonna do now, I’m saying what you guys gonna do now,
uh… uh, yeah because your staring at me, like your the CIA, but they’ll never
catch me, uh… uh, they’ll never catch me, eh… oh… what you gonna do now,
I’m saying you guys gonna do now uh… uh, yeah because your staring at me, like
your the CIA, I’m on the run but they’ll never catch me, eh… I hear all those
cop cars in the distance, they say you can’t run for ever, but I know smarter,
keep on smarter, keep on smarter I’m a more intelligent, Let’s take a cop
runner, boys were on the run, downloading illegal music and pirated movies and
ripping resources and getting them off our tail because you guys can turn back
if you want now, because they’ll never catch me, uh… uh, they’ll never catch
me, eh… oh… what you gonna do now, because your staring at me like your the
CIA, but they’ll never catch me, yeah they’ll never catch me…”
“They’ll never catch me, yeah…”“

[that's this week's *Best Quote of the Week*]