timetrax still phones home
I've never been able to use this on my parent's machine (who I bought it for) - they have dialup, and this stupid thing dialing in every 10 minutes is ridiculuous -
Why does it need to phone home continuously? what gives?
This has never been right - but now that the fine folks at timetrax have abandoned their customers.....
So - I took it back home -
I recently put register.timetraxtech.com and register1.timetraxtech.com in my hosts file, loop back address of 127.0.0.1
Unfortunately, this trick doesn't work - nor does using an application based firewall to block its phoning home works - timetrax has decided that I've lost my internet connection, and a "I'm gonna shut down in 15 seconds if you don't get this fixed" message pops up continuously.
Thus, when these servers go down, there goes our software operation - unless of course, the folks formerly at timetraxtech make this right.
Then again, we've got the hardware, and the radio itself provides enough information for us to record our talk-radio shows, or whatever- Perhaps some kid in Norway will write a new application that will replace timetrax?
Face it folks, we've been had by timetrax, as well as by the evil RIAA and MPAA -
Somehow they remind me of the tax-people - they provide less and less, and want more an more.
Best Regards -
Note:
You've always been able to install it on more than one machine - but you've only been able to use the radio that it was registered with - on whichever computer you've most recently hooked the thing up to -