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Satdarjee's Letter
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This is is a letter from a Sardarji mother to her son at school ...and hope to enjoy the reading..!
Pyaarey Puttar,
Vahe Guru. I am writing this letter slowly because I know you can't read fast. We don't live where we did when you left
home. Your dad read in the newspaper that most accidents happen 20 miles from your home, so we moved! I won't be able to
give you the address as the last Sardar who stayed in this house took the numbers with them for their next house, so they
wouldn't have to change their address. This place is really nice. It even has a washing machine. I'm not sure it works
too well, last week I put in three shirts and pulled the chain and I HAVE NOT SEEN THEM SINCE. THE weather here isn't too
bad. It rained only twice last week. The first time it rained for three days and the second time for four days. The coat
you wanted me to send you, your aunt said it would be a little too heavy to send in the mail with all the buttons, so we
cut them off and put them in the pocket. We got another bill from the funeral home. It said that if we don't make the last
payment on GRANDMA'S FUNERAL, she will come up again. Your father has another job. He has 500 men under him. He is cutting
the grass in the cemetery. Your sister had a baby this morning, I havent found out whether it is a boy or girl, so I don't
know whether
you are an aunt or uncle! There isn't much more news at this time. nothing much has happened. love, mom
p.s: I was going to send you some money, but the envelope was already sealed.
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Software Upgrade in Real Life
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What you should know before making upgrades 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 that 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, BachelorParty®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.. A "don't remind me again" button.
b.. A minimize button.
c.. Ability to delete the "headache" file.
d.. Uninstall option that provides the ability to uninstall without
loss of system resources.
e.. An option to run the network driver to run in the shared mode to
allow the system's hardware probe feature to be much more
useful and effective.
I myself have 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 Girlfrend® 4.0 on top of Girlfriend® 3.0. You must first
uninstall Girlfriend® 3.0, or conflicts will result from the shared use of the I/O port. Other users have told me that this
is a long-standing problem that I sould have been aware of. Guess that explains what happened to versions 1 and 2. To make
matters worse, the uninstall program for Girlfreind® 3.0 doesn't work very well, leaving undesirable traces of the application
in the system. Another identified problem is that all versions of Girlfreind® have annoying little messages about 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 system 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. Don't even think about a shared
directory!
Good luck with your current software version!
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