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To: Bald Man from Mars who wrote (21948)	11/7/1997 5:58:00 PM
From: mark alan rosenberg	Respond to of 61433

Probably, because he's like most money managers: 1/ They seem to follow the herd of analysts. 2/ They're buying while they're bad-mouthing. 3/ They're worried about the technical charts, momentum, even at the last 20%. 4/ They do the same thing on stocks going up: can't wait to buy more, because they are playing momentum. The last 2 months. A lot of analysts for major stock brokerage companies have been making lousy recommendations- on upgrades and downgrades. Mark

To: Bald Man from Mars who wrote (21948)	11/8/1997 3:01:00 AM
From: fiberman	Respond to of 61433

Hey Baldy, the following is a true story. Read it carefully, it may apply to you in your situation: > VIP information!!!! > > DISCRETION ADVISED WHEN UPGRADING! > > Last year a friend of mine upgraded from Girlfriend 4.0 to Wife > 1.0 and found that it's a memory hog leaving few system resources > for other applications. He is also now noticing that Wife 1.0 is > also spawning Child-Processes which are further consuming > valuable resources. No mention of this particular phenomenon was > included in the product documentation, though other users have > informed me that this is to be expected due to the nature of the > application. > > Not only that, Wife 1.0 installs itself so that it is always > launched at system initialization where it can monitor all other > system activity. Some applications such as PokerNite 10.3, > Bachelor Party 2.5, and Pubnite 7.0 are no longer able to run in > the system at all, causing the system to lockup when launched > (even though these apps worked fine before). > > Wife 1.0 provides no installation options. Thus, the > installation of undesired plug-ins such as Mother-in-law 55.8 and > the Brother-in-law Beta is unavoidable. Also, system performance > seems to diminish with each passing day. > > Some features my friend would 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 to be > installed > with the option of uninstalling at any time without loss of > Cache and other system resources. > - An option to run the network driver in "promiscuous mode" > which > would allow the system's Hardware Probe feature to be much > more useful. > > > I myself wish I had decided to avoid all of the headaches > associated with Wife 1.0 by sticking with Girlfriend 3.0. Even > here, however, I had found many problems. Apparently you cannot > install girlfriend 4.0 on top of Girlfriend 3.0. You must > uninstall Girlfriend 3.0 first, otherwise the two versions of > Girlfriend will have conflicts over shared use of the I/O port. > Other users have told me that this is a long-standing problem > that I should have been aware of. > > To make matters worse, the uninstall program for Girlfriend 3.0 > doesn't work very well, leaving undesirable traces of the > application in the system. Another identified problem is that all > versions of Girlfriend continually popup annoying little messages > about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0. > > > **** BUG WARNING ********* > > All users should be aware that 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 for some reason Mistress 1.1 won't install > at all, claiming insufficient resources. To avoid the > aforementioned bug, try installing Mistress 1.1 on a different > system and never run any file transfer applications (such as > Laplink) between the two systems. > Good Luck!!! Maloxman (Formerly Fiberman)