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Registered: June 2, 2007 | Posts: 8 |
| Posted: | | | | Is there a way to disable the automated check for new version at startup that got introduced in 3.1.1? Thanks for your help, Pierre |
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Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,459 |
| Posted: | | | | Not that I know of I'm afraid. | | | Last edited: by northbloke |
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Registered: March 10, 2007 | Posts: 4,282 |
| Posted: | | | | Is it causing an issue? | | | Invelos Software, Inc. Representative |
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 17,804 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Ken Cole: Quote: Is it causing an issue? Not at all! I 've tested DVD pro (latest release) on my laptop without any online connection. No problems at programme startup or elsewhere-HTH! | | | Thorsten |
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Registered: August 22, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,807 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Ken Cole: Quote: Is it causing an issue? Nope! But having the option to disable it would be fine, just in case. | | | -- Enry |
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 17,804 |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 756 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting kahless: Quote: Why? Paranoia? It's only paranoia if you truly believe that the Ba**ards are after you.... .......if you know they're after you....it's real life! | | | Chris |
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Registered: August 22, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,807 |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 2,759 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Ken Cole: Quote: Is it causing an issue? Privacy issues? |
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Registered: June 2, 2007 | Posts: 8 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Ken Cole: Quote: Is it causing an issue? I simply find this feature annoying. I've configured my firewall so that every program must ask permission to access the Internet, safe for my mail client, my browsers and my antivirus definitions module. When I launch 3.1.1, just to browse my collection, my firewall opens a popup saying that "DVD Profiler is trying to access the Internet", even though it is not required for browsing purposes and I know that there isn't a new version. When I deny access, DVD Profiler becomes unresponsive for at least 10 seconds. If I try to add a DVD to my collection during a session in which I denied Internet access, I get "Socket Error #11001 Host not found" error message: that's normal, though it is mostly hidden by the "Connecting to Invelos Software..." dialog. After clicking OK than Cancel, DVD Profiler becomes once again unresponsive for 20-30 seconds. So basically, in order to update your collection, you'd better first check whether there is a new version of DVD Profiler. That's ludicrous. I hope you'll consider implementing a disable "auto check" mechanism in the next version. In the mean time, is it safe to rollback to 3.1.0? Regards, Pierre |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 2,692 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting pican: Quote:
I simply find this feature annoying. I've configured my firewall so that every program must ask permission to access the Internet, safe for my mail client, my browsers and my antivirus definitions module.
does this mean that you don't have any rules set at all? I would suggest that you just set the rule so that it always allows connection from dvd profiler. I know you don't want to do it but I have a firewall configured that way. | | | Paul |
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Posts: 168 |
| Posted: | | | | I'd like to add that an open internet connection shouldn't really be required just to browse your local collection. There are times when our network at home does not have an active connection and the resulting lag time when opening DVDP I must admit can be a minor annoyance.
Perhaps a command line option switch to enable a session without an internet connection present could be considered with the next release? |
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Posts: 630 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting MtnMike: Quote: ... There are times when our network at home does not have an active connection... Thanks a lot, the thought of that will give me nightmares for weeks and I'll have to spend hours getting my 3G phone set up as an alternative connection if the ADSL goes down. | | | Regards Lars |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 2,692 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting lmoelleb: Quote: Quoting MtnMike:
Quote: ... There are times when our network at home does not have an active connection... Thanks a lot, the thought of that will give me nightmares for weeks and I'll have to spend hours getting my 3G phone set up as an alternative connection if the ADSL goes down. It doesn't take hours. Just connect using bluetooth and set the connection as dial up via bluetooth. Then set the phone number so it goes out over the 3G. it took me 5 mins | | | Paul |
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Posts: 630 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting pauls42: Quote:
It doesn't take hours.
Just connect using bluetooth and set the connection as dial up via bluetooth. Then set the phone number so it goes out over the 3G.
it took me 5 mins Something tells me 5 minutes only work for the very simple dial out network. I think it will take a tad longer than 5 minutes before I have the DNS servers pointing at my 3G connection to access my web server.... | | | Regards Lars |
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