< Dear Tech Support

Last year I upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0. I soon noticed that the new program began unexpected child processing that took up a lot of space and valuable resources. In addition, Wife 1.0 installed itself into all other programs and now monitors all other system activity. Applications such as Poker Night 10.3, Football 5.0 , Hunting and Fishing 7.5 , and Racing 3.6no longer run , crashing the system whenever selected.

I can't seem to keep Wife 1.0 in the background while attempting to run my favorite applications. I'm thinking about going back to Girlfriend 7.0, but the uninstall doesn't work on Wife 1.0. Please help!

Thanks,
A Troubled User.

Dear Troubled User:

This is a very common problem that men complain about.

Many people upgrade from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0, thinking that it is just a Utilities and Entertainment program. Wife 1.0 is an OPERATING SYSTEM and is designed by its Creator to run EVERYTHING!!! It is also impossible to delete Wife 1.0 and to return to Girlfriend 7.0 . It is impossible to uninstall, or purge the program files from the system once installed.

You cannot go back to Girlfriend 7.0 because Wife 1.0 is designed to not allow this. Look in your Wife 1.0 manual under Warnings-Alimony- Child Support. I recommend that you keep Wife1.0 and work on improving the situation. I suggest installing the background application "Yes Dear" to alleviate software augmentation.

Unfortunately I can't fix that spelling mistake because I don't have the raw file for the film any more.

However, my friend <Boomie> is helping me edit the new videos so hopefully they won't have terrible spelling any more.

Some of the other ones have spelling mistakes too.

Is your daughter going to be a chess master too?

I'll also take this opportunity to thank you for all the substantial work you've done on your chess website- I did in fact investigate some of your Steinitz material in the course of researching the videos you watched.

<hangingenprise> some respect for the Lifemaster please.

He has dedicated himself to our game and not just for his own benefit- his contribution to chess history and analysis is already substantial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-TY... + many others.

I really did like your stuff!!! In fact, other than one or two small spelling errors, I spotted almost no flaws.

I am sure that it took a TREMENDOUS amount of work! Thanks!!! With all the websites that have porn, and hate stuff (and a lot of other trash), we need people like you working hard to make the Internet a great place to be.

I consider your work to be fantastic. Its a boon to the Internet chess community. (The really nice thing is that I think that even a non-chess player would like your pieces on Steinitz and view them avidly. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same about all of my web pages.)

Is it hard to learn how to do that? What programs did you use? Wanna give an old guy (52) any tips or advice? Would you mind the competition? (I can guarantee it owuld be a long time before I could do one as well as yours!)

Speaking for myself, I respect anyone at this website who actually plays chess, posts games, makes good games collections, analyzes historical games, posts valuable chess history information, and pays for premium membership.

Outside of this website I respect anyone Such as <LMAJ> who would spend so much time and energy constructing a chess website- one of the best on the internet. The Lifemaster's analyses of historical games are both fascinating and also written so "humans" can understand them.

You know, using words to help describe what's going on.

Again speaking for me- I respect most those members of the internet chess community who work hard to create interesting and instructive material for others: People like <Tryfon Gavriel, Jerry of the Chess Network, KalkiAwaits, Kevin Spragget, Dennis Monokroussos, Edward Winter, Eric Schiller, Ray Keene, Bill Wall, Sarah Beth (Batgirl), Chancho, Phony Benoni, Suenteus Po, Benzol, Annie Kappel, Sean Godley, Eyal Segal, Crawfb5, Gregory Shahade, frogbert, The Albertan, KingG, hms123, Honza Cervenka, Tamar, Keypusher, Tpstar, Karpova, Technical Draw, Achieve, Alan Benson, Dzechiel, Tim Litten, SwitchingOwlsforThugs, Sangeeta Hosea, Susan Polgar, Tim Krabbe, Jeremy Silman, Hans Ree, Karpova, Nimh, Whatthefat, Jan Van Reek, Roger Paige, Timothy Glen Forney, and <<<Lifemaster A.J. Goldsby>>>>

All of the people on that list have at least one thing in common: they have spent great time, energy, money, expertise, and love to create a myriad of FREE chess history/analysis resources on the internet. I could not even begin to make the chess history videos I made without their help. They are the primary internet source I use in my own work.

As for the Lifemaster's forum- that's his virtual house here at CG.com. He bought it and whatever he chooses to do with it is entirely *his* business.

Ok those are my opinions on the matter and I don't want to read any more criticism of the Lifemaster in my own house.

I'm already well acquainted with him and what he does, I don't need a history lesson about him.

Anything you can do to help would be appreciated. (You see like a "DO-er," most of the people on this site do little other than kibitz. Many seem to be interested in little other than hurling insults.)