All, a little humor.
Relationship software.
Wife (release 1.0)
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 initialisation where it can monitor all other
system activity. He's finding that some applications such as
PokerNight 10.3, Football 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
- Minimise 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/0 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
applications 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.
******BUG WARNING ******
Wife 1.0 has an undocumented bug. If you try to install Mistress
1.1 before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files
before doing the uninstall itself. Then Mistress 1.1 will refuse to
install, claiming insufficient resources.
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