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>Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 08:17:47 -0800 >From: "Matt Seegers" >Reply-To: cpahunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx >Organization: Seegers & Associates >X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) >To: Dad , Jack Rosenbaum , > Ken Cross , Mark Saunders >Subject: Humor > >Enjoy: > >I'm currently running the latest version of GirlFriend and I've > been having some problems lately. I've been running the same > version of DrinkingBuddies 1.0 forever as my primary application, and >all > the GirlFriend releases I've tried have always conflicted with it. I > hear that DrinkingBuddies won't crash if GirlFriend is run in > background mode and the sound is turned off. But I'm embarrassed > to say I can't find the switch to turn the sound off. I just run > them separately, and it works okay. Girlfriend also seems to have a > problem coexisting with my Golf program, often trying to abort > Golf with some sort of timing incompatibility. > > I probably should have stayed with GirlFriend 1.0, but I thought I > might see better performance from GirlFriend 2.0. After months of > conflicts and other problems, I consulted a friend who has had > experience with GirlFriend 2.0. He said I probably didn't have > enough cache to run GirlFriend 2.0, and eventually it would > require a Token Ring to run properly. He was right - as soon as I > purged my cache, it uninstalled itself. > > Shortly after that, I installed GirlFriend 3.0 beta. All the bugs > were supposed to be gone, but the first time I used it, it gave me > a virus anyway. I had to clean out my whole system and shut down > > I very cautiously upgraded to GirlFriend 4.0. This time I used a > SCSI probe first and also installed a virus protection program. > It worked okay for a while until I discovered that GirlFriend 1.0 > was still in my system. I tried running GirlFriend 1.0 again with > GirlFriend 4.0 still installed, but GirlFriend 4.0 has a feature I > didn't know about that automatically senses the presence of any > other version of GirlFriend and communicates with it in some way, > which results in the immediate removal of both versions. > > The version I have now works pretty well, but there are still some > problems. Like all versions of GirlFriend, it is written in some > obscure language I can't understand, much less reprogram. Frankly > I think there is too much attention paid to the look and feel rather > than the desired functionality. Also, to get the best connections > with your hardware, you usually have to use gold-plated contacts. > And I've never liked how GirlFriend is totally "object-oriented." > > A year ago, a friend of mine upgraded his version of GirlFriend to > GirlFriendPlus 1.0, which is a Terminate and Stay Resident version > of GirlFriend. He discovered that GirlFriendPlus 1.0 expires within > a year if you don't upgrade to Fiancee 1.0. So he did, but soon > after that, he had to upgrade to Wife 1.0, which he describes as a > huge resource hog. It has taken up all his space, so he can't load > anything else. One of the primary reasons he decided to go with > Wife 1.0 was because it came bundled with FreeSexPlus. > > Well, it turns out the resource allocation module of Wife 1.0 > sometimes prohibits access to FreeSexPlus, particularly the new > Plug-Ins he wanted to try. On top of that, Wife 1.0 must be > running on a well warmed-up system before he can do anything. > Although he did not ask for it, Wife 1.0 came with MotherInLaw which > has an > automatic pop-up feature he can't turn off. > > I told him to try installing Mistress 1.0, but he said he heard if > you try to run it without first uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 > will delete MSMoney files before doing the uninstall itself. Then > Mistress 1.0 won't install anyway because of insufficient > resources. > >Matt > Ken Cross "The Best Yet To Come"
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