****** TO ALL ****** RECEIVED A VERY FUNNY EMAIL THIS MORNING
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WIFE 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 lauched 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 conficts 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 is very irritating -- all versions of Girlfriend
continually popup 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.
*** BUG WORK-AROUNDS ***************
To avoid the above bug, try installing Mistress 1.1 on a different
system and never run any file transfer applications such as Laplink
6.0. Also, beware of similar shareware applications that have been
known to carry viruses that may affect Wife 1.0.
Another solution would be to run Mistress 1.0 via a UseNet provider
under an anonymous name. Here again, beware of the viruses which can
accidently be downloaded from the UseNet. |
