| You
must be married; know someone who has been
married or possibly even have a married
family member ;) The following is not intended
as an endorsement of that condition. Nor
is it intended to condemn the sanctity of
marriage as a whole. Actually, there is
no such motive, just a desire to entertain
with a little humour and from what someone
had said, as ‘little’ humour
as possible.
Just sit back and
enjoy, have a few chuckles at your partner's
/ lover's / (dare I say it?) spouse's expense!
Wife Upgrade
Skip
this if you are not very familiar with computers…
errr… read it anyways…
If you're having trouble with your Girl
Friend, you're not alone. Even if you never
had problems, upgrading your Girl Friend
to Fiance or Wife will not be easy, Not
to mention the problems afterwords. Find
out what a poor guy has to say!
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 the background mode
and the sound is turned off. I just run
them seperately, and it works okay. GirlFriend
also seems to have a problem co-existing
with my Leisure 3.1 and QuietTime programs,
often trying to abort them with some sort
of unwanted high-pitched noise.
I probably should have stayed with GirlFriend
1.0. I just 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 it would require
a Token Ring to run properly. I didn't like
that idea, and wanted it removed. 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 for a while
to re-check my hardware.
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 on top, but GirlFriend 4.0
has a feature I didn't know about that automatically
detects the presence of any other versions
of GirlFriend and communicates with it in
the background 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.
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, which are very expensive. And
I've never liked GirlFriend's totally 'object-oriented'
resource requirements, and that interface
is cumbersome and even counter-intuitive.
A year ago, a friend
of mine upgraded his version of GirlFriend
to GirlFriendPlus 1.1, which is a Terminate
and Stay Resident version of GirlFriend.
To his dismay, however, he discovered that
if you don't upgrade again to Fiancee 1.0,
GirlFriendPlus 1.1 expires within a year
of the upgrade. So he did, but soon after
that, he had to upgrade yet again to Wife
1.0, which he describes as a HUGE resource
hog.
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