Raleigh, I've got a computer problem, can you help me? :-)
Girlfriend Upgrade Bugs
Last year a friend of mine upgraded GirlFriend 1.0 to Wife 1.0 and found
that it's a memory hog leaving very little system resources for other
applications. He is only now noticing that Wife 1.0 also is spawning
Child-Processes which are further consuming valuable resources. No mention
of this particular phenomena was included in the product brochure or the
documentation, though other users have informed him that this is to be
expected due to the nature of the application.
Not only that, Wife 1.0 installs itself such that it is always launched at
system initialization where it can monitor all other system activity. He's
finding that some applications such as
PokerNight 10.3, BeerBash 2.5, and PubNight 7.0 are no longer able to run
in the system at all, crashing the system when selected (even though they
always worked fine before).
At installation, Wife 1.0 provides no option as to the installation of
undesired Plug-Ins such as MotherInLaw 55.8 and BrotherInLaw Beta release.
Also, system performance seems to diminish with each passing day.
Some features he'd like to see in the upcoming wife 2.0.
- - - A "Don't remind me again" button
- - - Minimize button
- - - An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 be installed
with the option to uninstall at anytime without the loss of
cache and other system resources.
- - - An option to run the network driver in promiscuous mode
which would allow the systems hardware probe feature to be much
more useful.
I myself decided to avoid all of the headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by
sticking with Girlfriend 2.0. Even here, however, I found many problems.
Apparently you cannot install Girlfriend 2.0 on top of Girlfriend 1.0. You
must uninstall Girlfriend 1.0
first. Other users say this is a long standing bug which I should have been
aware of. Apparently the versions of Girlfriend have conflicts over shared
use of the I/O port. You think they would have fixed such a stupid bug by
now. To make matters
worse, The uninstall program for Girlfriend 1.0 doesn't work very well
leaving undesirable traces of the application in the system.
Another thing that sucks -- all versions of Girlfriend continually pop up
little annoying messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0
(Just a little fun)
David D. |
