DeTomaso Mailing List: July 98, Message #86

Charlie wrote: <snip> Is this going to be another quiet weekend like the Vegas weekend where everyone is out having fun in their Panteras with everyone else, and that means that those of us not going are sitting here looking at an empty "incoming mail" box?

We need something to pass the time. 

>>>>>Once upon a time.......Sorry Charlie! Maybe this will make your day:

Male Friend Needs Technical Support
 
 Can you please advise me? I'm having some problems. 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 all along as my primary
application, and all the GirlFriend releases have always conflicted with it. I
hear that DrinkingBuddies won't crash if you run GirlFriend in background mode
with the sound turned off. But I'm embarrassed  to say I can't find the switch
to turn the sound off. I just run them separately, and it works okay.
GirlFriend also seems to have a problem coexisting
 with my Golf program, often trying to abort Golf with some sort of timing
incompatibility. I probably should have stayed with GirlFriend 1.0, but I
thought I might see better performance with GirlFriend 2.0. After months of
conflicts and other problems, I consulted a friend who has had experience with
GirlFriend 2.0. He said that I probably didn't have enough cache to run
GirlFriend 2.0, and that eventually it would require a Token ring to run
properly. 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 gave me a
virus.  I had to clean out my whole system and shut down for a while. 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! Then I tried to run
GirlFriend 1.0 again with GirlFriend 4.0 still installed, but GirlFriend 4.0
has a feature that I didn't know about that automatically senses the presence
of any other version of GirlFriend and communicates with it in some way, which
results in the immediate removal of both versions! The version I have right
now works pretty well, but there are still some problems. Like all versions of
GirlFriend, it is written in some obscure language that I can't understand,
much less reprogram.  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.
And I've never liked how GirlFriend is totally "object-oriented". A year ago,
a friend of mine upgraded his version of GirlFriend to GirlFriendPlus 1.0,
which is a Terminate and Stay Resident version of GirlFriend. He discovered
that GirlFriendPlus 1.0 expires within a year if you don't upgrade to Fiancee
1.0. So he did. But soon after that, he had to upgrade to Wife 1.0, which he
describes as a "huge resource hog". It has taken up all of his space, so he
can't load anything else. One of the primary reasons that he upgraded to Wife
1.0 is that it came bundled with FreeSexPlus 1.0. Well, it turns
out that the resource allocation module of Wife 1.0 sometimes prohibits access
to FreeSexPlus, particularly the new Plug-Ins he wanted to try. On top of
that, Wife 1.0 must be running on a well warmed-up system before he can do
anything. Although he did not ask for it, Wife 1.0 came with MotherInLaw 1.0
which has an automatic pop-up feature that he can't turn off. I told him to
try installing Mistress 1.0, but he said that he heard if you try to run it
without first uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney
files before doing the uninstall itself. Then Mistress 1.0 won't install
anyway due to insufficient resources. Can you help?? 
 

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