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With the Y2K patch thread getting a little tense on this list, here's a
little computer humor someone sent me to go with it...
I saw this software upgrade warning & thought it might help some users
avoid big headaches in the future:
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Upgrading to Wife 1.0
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 the 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 on
the system at all, causing the system to lockup when launched
(even though the 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.
- Ability to delete the "headache" file
- An install feature that provides an option to uninstall 2.0 version
without loss of other system resources.
- An option to run the network driver in "promiscuous mode" allowing
the the system's Hardware Probe feature to be much more
useful/effective.
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
have 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. Guess that explains what happened to \
versions 1 and 2.
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 have annoying little messages about the advantages of
upgrading to Wife 1.0!
VIRUS ALERT
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. Once that happens, Mistress 1.1 won't install and you
will get an "insufficient resources" error message. 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.
FYI: Don't even think about a shared directory!!!!!!!!!
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