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10.4: Prevent 10.4.7 from checking for Widget updates
Authored by: 77ric on Jul 10, '06 03:42:22PM
yes Apple should have made this feature perfectly clear before people made the update to 10.4.7, and yes there should be the option to turn this feature of for the paranoid amongst us. personally i have no issue with dashboardadvisory calling home for it's intended purpose, with one exception, IMHO there is no need for it to call out every 8 hours, surely once a day is enough. having had a look at the contents of com.apple.dashboard.advisory.fetch.plist there is a section near the end that reads


<string>/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/fetchadvisory</string>
	</array>
	<key>StartInterval</key>
	<integer>28800</integer>

now my question is, does the number 28800 represent 8 hours (there is 28800 seconds in 8 hours if my maths is still good) and if so then if we changed that figure to 86400 would that mean that dashboradadvisory will only call apple every 24 hours.
<string>/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/fetchadvisory</string>
	</array>
	<key>StartInterval</key>
	<integer>86400</integer>

i'm not particulary good at OS hacking, can anyone confirm my thoughts, before i wreck my intstallation.

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10.4: Prevent 10.4.7 from checking for Widget updates
Authored by: unforeseen:X11 on Jul 24, '06 11:43:16PM

You are perfectly right. =)

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