CheekyGeek wrote: >To echo previous comments, there are minor upgrade (point releases) >such as from 3.0 to 3.1 (etc.) and then there are major upgrades, such >as from 2.x to 3. Generally, education versions are not >major-upgradable (or if they are they are priced high enough that you >would be better off just buying a fresh education copy of the new >release. > >I also suspect that even if the serial number is in the box, the >application is made to "phone home" to make sure that the serial >number is an authorized one and not a serial crack. On Mac's the >"phone home" can be optionally prevented with a program called "Li'l >Snitch". Not sure if an equivalent program is out there for Windoze.
ZoneAlarm is the Windows equivalent. Very, very good and it's freeware. You can also block egress with a hosts file. *Nothing* on my computer is allowed to phone home unless it's absolutely necessary for the program to function *and* I give explicit permission. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
