[cs615asa] joke day!

lyu7 lyu7 at stevens.edu
Wed Apr 4 12:49:20 EDT 2012


It is long joke. I just picked up some paragraphs.

Husband 1.0

HUSBAND 1.0 There are a lot of pressures to upgrade from Boyfriend 6.0 
to Husband 1.0. However before doing so make sure you understand the 
implications of this change...

For one, system activity will be severely limited and you will be 
compelled to instigate rigorous daily routines in space management, 
garbage disposal and disc cleaning often with an accompanying increase 
in system administration. This program can also be a drain on many 
resources and demand constant attention. You will encounter an increased 
amount of interrupts and error messages, while the program often cancels 
processes without warning, very often crashing the system. In addition, 
Husband 1.0 often refuses to respond to your commands and frequently 
appears to be running processes which you have not authorized. If this 
happens a lot, do not respond to any interactive requests from the 
program and severely limit demand for extra bytes.

Every so often you will be promised a new release of the program, but 
unfortunately, upon loading this new release, it is generally found to 
be almost identical to the old one, with very few feature changes and 
most of the same old annoying bugs which you were undoubtedly promised 
would not be there in the new release. Put up with it or discontinue use 
entirely. Husband 1.0 is a flawed program; many of the bugs are so 
deeply encoded that, even if they can be located, they are impossible to 
eradicate and have to be tolerated.

Husband 1.0 will frequently make use of low level language and may not 
understand higher level commands so you must be prepared to use basic 
functions when required. Often a few robust algorithms in handshaking 
mode will produce a good response.

On completion of a process, Husband 1.0 will often inadvertently apply 
the sleep command, or suspend system activity with a Ctrl ZZ. There is 
nothing you can do in this case, but leave the program and try again 
later.


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