OpenEuphoria

1. Relations:

• Posted by Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen <nieuwen at XS4ALL.NL> Dec 30, 1998
• 336 views
• Last edited Dec 31, 1998

As a New Year gift, here are some warning about some well-known computer
programs, enjoy:
============== (source: Kasteel Digitale Maandfolder) and I have no clue
where he stole it from... ==============


                    RE: Computer Software Warning
                    ========================

                    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
                    productbrochure 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 launched at system initialization where
                    it can monitor all other system activity. He's
                    finding that some applications such as
                    PokerNight 8.3, 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 to 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
                    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
                    beenknown 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
                    accidentally be downloaded from the UseNet.


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Happy New Year all..

Ralf N.
nieuwen at xs4all.nl
ralf_n at email.com
UIN: 9389920
http://www.xs4all.nl/~nieuwen