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Re: [SLE] Wife & Linux
- From: "Brian W. Carver" <bwcarver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 22:48:45 -0700
- Message-id: <3D0EC9BD.3030204@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I currently have a fiancee, who will soon be upgraded to Wife 1.0 *, but
I don't even attempt to evangelize her and she really needs it. She gets
Word macro virii on a regular basis and cannot afford to lose documents
she spends hours working on. She's a massive multi-tasker and her Win98
runs sooo slow as a result (she'd benefit at the very least from
multiple desktops).
BUT, I know her, and she would carry her Windows box to her grave if *I* told her she should switch. So instead, I'm just using 8.0 happily and have gone from 8 reboots a day to 4 per month or so, I'm living in Mozilla's Tabbed browsing bliss and allowing her to try to notice on her own the advantages I'm experiencing.
Here's the shocker: the killer linux app that finally got her to ask, "Hey! What's that? Where'd you get that?" ... Gnome Mines. She's a Minesweeper addict and the allure of another similar game really piqued her interest.
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*For those who long to read again that bit of humor referenced above, here it is:
Upgrading to Wife 1.0
Last year a friend of mine upgraded from Girlfriend 4.0 to Wife 1.0 and found that it's a memory hog leaving few system resources for other applications. He is also now noticing the Wife 1.0 is also spawning Child-processes which are further consuming valuable resources. No mention of this particular phenomenon was included in the product documentation, though other users have informed me that this is to be expected due to the nature of the application.
Not only that, Wife 1.0 installs itself so that it is always launched at system initialization where it can monitor all other system activity. Some applications such as PokerNite 10.3 , Bachelor Party 2.5, and Pubnite 7.0 are no longer able to run on the system at all, causing the system to lockup when launched (even though the apps worked fine before).
Wife 1.0 provides no installation options. Thus, the installation of undesired plug-ins such as Mother-in-law 55.8 and the Brother-in-law Beta is unavoidable. Also, system performance seems to diminish with each passing day.
Some features my friend would like to see in the upcoming Wife 2.0:
* A "don't remind me again" button.
* Minimize button.
* Ability to delete the "headache" file
* An install feature that provides an option to uninstall 2.0
version without loss loss of other system resources.
* An option to run the network driver in "promiscuous mode" allowing
the the system's Hardware Probe feature to be much more
useful/effective.
I myself wish I had decided to avoid all of the headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by sticking with Girlfriend 3.0 Even here, however, I have found many problems. Apparently you cannot install Girlfriend 4.0 on top of girlfriend 3.0. You must uninstall Girlfriend 3.0 first, otherwise the two versions of Girlfriend will have conflicts over shared use of the I/O port. Other users have told me that this is a long-standing problem that I should have been aware of. Guess that explains what happened to versions 1 and 2.
To make matters worse, the uninstall program for Girlfriend 3.0 doesn't work very well, leaving undesirable traces of the application in the system. Another identified problem is that all versions of Girlfriend have annoying little messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0!
VIRUS ALERT
All users should be aware that 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. Once that happens, Mistress 1.1 won't install and you will get an "insufficient resources" error message. To avoid the aforementioned bug, try installing Mistress 1.1 on a different system and " never" run any file transfer applications(such as Laplink) between the two systems.
FYI: Don't even think about a shared directory! 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.
Art Fore wrote:
--
Brian
Support EFF! http://www.eff.org/
They're defending YOUR rights online.
BUT, I know her, and she would carry her Windows box to her grave if *I* told her she should switch. So instead, I'm just using 8.0 happily and have gone from 8 reboots a day to 4 per month or so, I'm living in Mozilla's Tabbed browsing bliss and allowing her to try to notice on her own the advantages I'm experiencing.
Here's the shocker: the killer linux app that finally got her to ask, "Hey! What's that? Where'd you get that?" ... Gnome Mines. She's a Minesweeper addict and the allure of another similar game really piqued her interest.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
*For those who long to read again that bit of humor referenced above, here it is:
Upgrading to Wife 1.0
Last year a friend of mine upgraded from Girlfriend 4.0 to Wife 1.0 and found that it's a memory hog leaving few system resources for other applications. He is also now noticing the Wife 1.0 is also spawning Child-processes which are further consuming valuable resources. No mention of this particular phenomenon was included in the product documentation, though other users have informed me that this is to be expected due to the nature of the application.
Not only that, Wife 1.0 installs itself so that it is always launched at system initialization where it can monitor all other system activity. Some applications such as PokerNite 10.3 , Bachelor Party 2.5, and Pubnite 7.0 are no longer able to run on the system at all, causing the system to lockup when launched (even though the apps worked fine before).
Wife 1.0 provides no installation options. Thus, the installation of undesired plug-ins such as Mother-in-law 55.8 and the Brother-in-law Beta is unavoidable. Also, system performance seems to diminish with each passing day.
Some features my friend would like to see in the upcoming Wife 2.0:
* A "don't remind me again" button.
* Minimize button.
* Ability to delete the "headache" file
* An install feature that provides an option to uninstall 2.0
version without loss loss of other system resources.
* An option to run the network driver in "promiscuous mode" allowing
the the system's Hardware Probe feature to be much more
useful/effective.
I myself wish I had decided to avoid all of the headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by sticking with Girlfriend 3.0 Even here, however, I have found many problems. Apparently you cannot install Girlfriend 4.0 on top of girlfriend 3.0. You must uninstall Girlfriend 3.0 first, otherwise the two versions of Girlfriend will have conflicts over shared use of the I/O port. Other users have told me that this is a long-standing problem that I should have been aware of. Guess that explains what happened to versions 1 and 2.
To make matters worse, the uninstall program for Girlfriend 3.0 doesn't work very well, leaving undesirable traces of the application in the system. Another identified problem is that all versions of Girlfriend have annoying little messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0!
VIRUS ALERT
All users should be aware that 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. Once that happens, Mistress 1.1 won't install and you will get an "insufficient resources" error message. To avoid the aforementioned bug, try installing Mistress 1.1 on a different system and " never" run any file transfer applications(such as Laplink) between the two systems.
FYI: Don't even think about a shared directory! 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.
Art Fore wrote:
Hi All
I showed my wife, a computer illiterate, how to get on the internet through
our dialup connection this evening. Takes two mouse clicks. In Windows, it
takes at least three. She was quite impressed.
Art
--
Brian
Support EFF! http://www.eff.org/
They're defending YOUR rights online.
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