Conference 7.286::humor

934.0. "Upgrade your favorite software!" by HLFS00::ROSIER_L () Wed Mar 26 1997 19:26

    Upgrade your favorite software:
    
    
    Last year a friend of mine upgraded Girlfriend 1.0 to Wife 1.0 and
    found out 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 allways
    launched at system initialisation 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 allways
    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 paassing
    day.
    The features he'd like to see in the upcoming Wife 2.0 include:
    - A "Don't remind me again" button
    - Minimize button
    - An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 to be installed with
      the option to uninstall at anytime without the loss of cache and
      other system resources.
    - An option to run the networkdriver 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/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 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.
    
    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 1.1 via a UseNet provider
    under an anonymous name. Here again, beware of the viruses which can
    accidentally be downloaded from the UseNet.
    
    
    
    
    

RE: .0

GEE that looks alot like 104.105

In the future try: dir/title=