
Relationship software.
Wife (release 1.0)
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 initialisation where it can monitor all other
system activity. He's finding that some applications such as
PokerNight 10.3, Football 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
eta 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 * - Minimise button
- An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 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/0 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
applications 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.
There was a group of russian soldiers close to a high ravine. The
sergeant goes close to the edge, looks down, then turns around
and says:
- Soldier Ivanov!
- Sir!
- Put yourself in this position:
O
*--------------.
| | |
| | |
| | *
| |
,--------
| |
| |
|
|
- Yes sir!
*
|
|
|
O |
,-----'
| | |
| | |
*----' | |
|--|
| |
| |
| `-----
|
|
|
- Yes sir!
O
*-----------.
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | *
,-----------.
| |
| |
At that moment a jeep stops. The Captain gets up and
yells: