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A couple thoughts for the second question come to mind:
it could be trying to access miserybank.com
it could be attempting to verify the password via the internet.
it could be a mode of copy protection. it should notify you but then this
could jepordize the password protection and give a point of entry to
hackers. ideally they should throw up a dialog but it's not mandatory.
it's extra programming to do that, albeit relatively easy but when you're
pressed for time the way omega has been for the last year with this product,
it gets second billing. only the most honest companies would do it.
somehow omega doesn't quite fall into that category.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy [mailto:ronin@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 8:28 PM
> To: Omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Question on TS 2000i
>
>
> I have to say that I'm quite surprised that TS 2000i SP4 actually
> works. :-)
>
> It's been on for a week, on Windows NT 4.0, in real time and has yet to
> collapse (knock on wood). :-)
>
> I do have some questions on it though:
>
> 1) in the strategy report, there's hardly any information on their
> performance parameters. For instance, the descriptions of Sharpe / Return
> Retracement / Kesner ratio just gives a generalization saying that the
> higher the bettter, without giving an idea of what is a good
> number. I know
> that a 2 is better than a 1 but is the 2 high enough? Or is it
> too low and a
> 3 is better? etc.
>
> 2) I don't know if anyone has notice this but if you run this for
> the first
> time in conjunction with Zone Alarm, ZA will notify you that both BMI and
> Omega tries to send out a message via the internet, even if you're using a
> non internet datafeed - i.e., it has no reason to access the internet at
> all. So, what is going on here? Is it trying to register this software
> package to their respective vendors? I'm not really worried about
> it, since
> I bought it directly from Omega but why is it trying to send out a message
> via the internet to their respective home sites? If it's trying
> to register
> it, shouldn't it notify me first, rather then trying
> surriptiously and then
> having a firewall telling that? Has anyone encounter this?
>
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