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I, too, thought this was hillarious.
Peter and Dunbar
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>Subject: I Lovet This One!!!!!!
>Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 09:32:43 -0700
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>+== acb-l Message from "Darla Dahl" <[log in to unmask]> ==+
>This is the funniest computer Email I've seen in a long, long time
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>Enjoy!!!!!!!!
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>Darla
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>Thought you may enjoy this ....
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>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 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 always launched at system initialization
>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 always worked fine before). At installation, Wife 1.0
>provides no option as to the installation of undesired Plug-ins such a
>MotherInlaw 55.8 and BrotherInLaw Beta release. Also system performance
>seems to diminish with each passing day. The feature 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 network driver in promiscuous mode which would
>
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>allow the systems hardware probe feature to be much more useful
>
>I myself decided to avoide 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 first uninstall GirlFriend 1.0. 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 but by now. To make matters worse, the
>uninstall program for GirlFriend 1.0 doesn't work very well leaving
>undesireable traces of th eapplication in the system. Another problem - all
>versions of GirlFriend continually pop-up little annoying messages about the
>advantage of upgrading to Wife 1.0.
>
>UNDOCUMENTED BUG
>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 Microsoft Money 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 applicaitons such as LapLink 6.0. Also,
>beware of similar shareware that have been known to carry viruses that may
>afect 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 acidentally be downloaded from the USeNet.
>
>
>
>
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