the AKHLog V4

Today, at the birth of this blog’s *fourth* Knowledge Bank, we witnessed Timmah break away from his usual tradition and post a brand new word – Atimmah.

But, looking deeper, I found the Timmah’s vocabulary stretches far further than that …

… in ultisoft’s post “Timmah3000 Knowledge Bank” …

ultisoft wrote:

“Everyone should at least know who he is now; we all have ideas.. and I’d like to share them.  I saw the Heartagram and mrsmes knowledge banks in the blog roll; this is what inspired me to make this post.”

…

“He has only used the word TIMMAH! in his posts; nothing else… (definition above)”

…

“Hometown: I’d only know if I know how to check what his IP is and where…”

…

Timmah3000 wrote:

“Tiiiimmmmmmaaaaahhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

atimmah!”

Pilot wrote:

“-_-

are you still there?”

Timmah3000 wrote:

“Atimmah”

Pilot wrote:

“-_-”

Despite the fact that he’s probably behind a proxy, I decided I’d check his IP to see if he’d posted as anyone else recently (in the past, a search for Timmah’s IP address just brought up Timmah’s posts) …

I thought to myself, could steware really be Timmah? Then I remembered who I thought Timmah really was.  ^__^

But just to make things certain, I did a search for steware’s comments …

This pretty much confirms my suspicion that Timmah, Tidz and thetruthoracle are all the same person: burnys.

Next up today I’m bringing you the latest on YoYo’s speed issues as a supposed fix for them was presented by the YoYo Games team yesterday afternoon.

Note that from ~9:00 AM to 10:30 AM GMT today, the 28th (the changes were made on the 27th) the site was down completely – Internal Server Errors and “Service Temporarily Unavailable” errors.

The post was met by the usual critics, Apache 2.2.9 and the GM Mac port were mentioned yet again, but at least the comments didn’t sound so murderous today. XD

… in the YoYo Games Glog Post “Site Speed Fix” …

YoYoJim wrote:

“Just a quick update to let you all know that we have added some databases indexes and a few changes to the caching which, hopefully, should mean faster page loads. Let us know how you find it in the comments below.”

gmfreaky wrote:

“It is pretty fast now, but not as fast as it was…”

Caniac wrote:

“asesome, I will have to try this out.

any progress on the mac port?
(sorry if I am being annoying)”

Wireless wrote:

“Everyone wants to be annoying, the only thing they talks about is the damn site and competitions!!!”

gmgex wrote:

“Well update your apache server and php server… and it will go even faster because the apache has a really bad bug that slows down your site, unless you guys update from version 2.2.3 to 2.2.9! OK!
thanks,
Gmgex”

Bob the BlueBerry wrote:

“Question:

(a): Why was yoyogames.com created on
18-Oct-2004

(b): What are you going to do about GM-Decompiler 2.0? Talking about Albino Pheasants in your yard isn’t helping.”

Caniac wrote:

“yes, I wish that they had stayed gamemaker.nl, but I think I will officially forgive them when the mac port comes out
“

And lastly for today, I’d like to publish here a litte project I’ve been working on over the past four days. With all the talk of Dock making going on around a week ago, it got me thinking, “Wouldn’t it be cool to make a dock entirely out of VBScript?” [VBScript is like Javascript, it's a basic programming (scripting) language used in webpages, but you can also make standalone "programs" from it ... all in NotePad.]

The quite obvious answer to this question is no it would not be cool, but I did it anyway. After spending a day killing a bug in the small amount of javascript I was forced to use [that's why I don't use Javascript] it was complete. All you need to do is run it, it installs everything it needs itself – it copies itself to the D:\, creates a shortcut to itself on your Desktop, makes the D:\AKHDock\ folder where all the dock’s files are kept, and writes the two HTML pages it needs – one for the dock itself, the other a little dialog box used to add files to the dock (might I add, that that is AWESOME ). You can add files (and folders) to the dock either by dragging them onto the program’s shortcut (they will be moved automatically when the dock starts) or using the “Add to Dock” dialog box, which presents a list of folders and files on the Desktop, lets you select however many you want (and more than one at the same time, although that wasn’t how I originally intended it to be) and add them at the touch [well, click] of a button.

The dock also has two awesome-looking digital clocks, one at the top left and one at the top right, showing both the time and date.

The original ended up pretty messy, so I spent yesterday rewriting the whole thing both to save filespace and clean up the code. Yes, believe it or not, the code below is what I call clean.

You can download it from willhostforfood.com here, [only 5KB] and the 5,139 bytes of source code are in a box below. Enjoy!

'AKHDock Copyright © 2008 Adam Hinder
On Error Resume Next
SeT a=Createobject("wscript.Shell")
SeT b=Createobject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
c=VBcrLf
d=" "
e=d&d&d&d
f="D:\AKHDock\"
g=a.SpecialFolders("Desktop")&"\"
b.CreateFolder f
For each h in wscript.arguments
if b.FileExists(h) Then b.MoveFile h,f else b.MoveFolder h,f
Next
b.CopyFile wscript.Scriptfullname,"D:\AKHDock.vbs"
SeT i=a.CreateShortcut(g&"AKHDock.lnk")
i.TargetPath="D:\AKHDock.vbs"
i.Save
SeT j=b.CreateTextFile("D:\AKHDock.htm")
SeT k=b.CreateTextFile("D:\AKHaddfiles.htm")
j.Write "<title>AKHDock</title><style>body{overflow:auto;background:A00;color:FFF;font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;cursor:default;text-align:center}b{color:F80;text-decoration:underline}#a{position:absolute;width:18;height:1;overflow:hidden;background:AAA}#b{position:absolute;width:50;height:1;overflow:hidden;background:AAA}#c{position:absolute;width:78;height:1;overflow:hidden;border-right:AAA solid 23;border-left:AAA solid 23;background:000}#d{position:absolute;top:13;width:80;overflow:hidden;border-right:AAA solid 1;border-left:AAA solid 1;background:000;color:0E0;font-family:Lucida Console;font-size:8pt}#e{position:absolute;top:26;color:0B0;font-family:Arial;font-size:7pt;font-weight:bold}#f{background:B00}#g{font-family:Lucida Console;font-size:12pt}a{width:80;border:#000 solid 1;background:A00;color:FE0;margin-bottom:6;margin-top:6}</style><body><script type='text/javascript'>window.moveTo(screen.width/2-320,screen.height/2-240)</script>
<div id=""g"">"&d&"=]===]=]=]=]=]]="&e&e&e&d&d&"
=]=]==]=]=]=]=]==]==]]===]]=]=]
=]]]==]]==]]]=]==]=]==]=]===]]"&d&"
]===]=]=]=]=]=]==]=]==]=]===]=]
]===]=]=]=]=]=]]====]]===]]=]=]</div>
<b onclick=""window.open('file:D:/AKHaddfiles.htm','_blank','width=320,height=480,status=0,resizable=0,location=0,menubar=0,toolbar=0,directories=0')"">Add to
Dock</b>

<div id=""a"" style=""top:10;left:41""></div>
<div id=""b"" style=""top:11;left:25""></div>
<div id=""c"" style=""top:12;left:11""></div>
<div id=""d"" style=""left:10""></div>
<div id=""c"" style=""top:24;left:11""></div>
<div id=""b"" style=""top:25;left:25""></div>
<div id=""a"" style=""top:26;left:41""></div>
<div id=""e"" style=""left:10;text-align:left""></div>
<div id=""a"" style=""top:10;left:571""></div>
<div id=""b"" style=""top:11;left:555""></div>
<div id=""c"" style=""top:12;left:541""></div>
<div id=""d"" style=""left:540""></div>
<div id=""c"" style=""top:24;left:541""></div>
<div id=""b"" style=""top:25;left:555""></div>
<div id=""a"" style=""top:26;left:571""></div>
<div id=""e"" style=""right:10;text-align:right""></div>
<script type='text/vbscript'>SeT h=Createobject(""Scripting.FileSystemObject"")"&c&"For each i in h.GetFolder("""&f&""").SubFolders"&c&"document.write ""<a href='file:""&i&""' onmouseover='this.id=""""f""""' onmouseout='this.id=""""j""""'>""&i.Name&""</a>"&e&""" "&c&"Next"&c&"For each k in h.GetFolder("""&f&""").Files"&c&"document.write ""<a href='file:""&k&""' target='_blank' onmouseover='this.id=""""f""""' onmouseout='this.id=""""j""""'>""&k.Name&""</a>"&e&""" "&c&"Next"&c&"l="" """&c&"m=0"&c&"SUB n()"&c&"o=Hour(Now)"&c&"if o<10 Then p=""0"" else p="""" "&c&"q=Minute(Now)"&c&"if q<10 Then r=""0"" else r="""" "&c&"s=Second(Now)"&c&"if s<10 Then t=""0"" else t="""" "&c&"if not m=s Then if l="":"" Then l="" "" else l="":"" "&c&"m=Second(Now)"&c&"For each u in document.all(""d"")"&c&"u.innerHTML=p&o&l&r&q&l&t&s"&c&"Next"&c&"End SUB"&c&"For each v in document.all(""e"")"&c&"v.innerHTML=WeekDayName(WeekDay(Now))&"",
""&Day(Now)&"" ""&MonthName(Month(Now))&"" ""&Year(Now)"&c&"Next"&c&"setInterval ""n()"",99</script>"
k.Write "<title>Add Files to the AKHDock</title><style>body{background:EDB}div{position:absolute;top:10;left:10;width:300;height:428;overflow:auto;border:AAA solid 1px;padding:2px 3px;background:FFF;font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;cursor:default}#a{background:049;color:FFF}button{position:relative;top:413}</style><body onunload='opener.location.reload()'><script type='text/javascript'>this</script>
<div><script type='text/vbscript'>SeT b=Createobject(""Scripting.FileSystemObject"")"&c&"For each c in b.GetFolder("""&g&""").SubFolders"&c&"document.write ""<b onclick='if(this.id==""""a""""){this.id=""""d""""}else this.id=""""a""""'>""&c.Name&""</b>
"""&c&"Next"&c&"For each e in b.GetFolder("""&g&""").Files"&c&"document.write ""<b onclick='if(this.id==""""a""""){this.id=""""d""""}else this.id=""""a""""'>""&e.Name&""</b>
"""&c&"Next"&c&"SUB f()"&c&"For each g in document.all(""a"")"&c&"if not g.innerHTML="""" Then if b.FileExists("""&g&"""&g.innerHTML) Then b.MoveFile """&g&"""&g.innerHTML,"""&f&""" else b.MoveFolder """&g&"""&g.innerHTML,"""&f&""" "&c&"Next"&c&"End SUB</script><b id='a' style='display:none'></b></div>

"&e&e&e&"<button onclick='f();location.reload()'>Add Files</button>"&e&e&e&d&d&d&"<button onclick='window.close()'>Cancel</button>"
SeT l=Createobject("internetExplorer.Application")
l.visible=0
l.width=640
l.height=480
l.Resizable=0
l.statusbar=0
l.ToolBar=0
l.MenuBar=0
l.navigate "D:\AKHDock.htm"
l.visible=1