Disable Software Notifcations

recently upgraded to Mountain Lion on my home MB Pro - like it better than Lion, mostly - except for the stupid "New Software Updates are available" popping into my screen every few minutes. There's no "Don't Ask Me Again" button, of course!
I obviously tried to disable software update in SYS PREFs, and looked in the Notifications Pref Pane, but there's nothing there about Software Updates.
Anyone know of some Terminal command to shut that little guy up until I'm ready to update when I want to?

howwow wrote:
Hi all,
I am on the opposite end, even I turn on all the Software Update settings, I am still not getting any single app update or software update notification.
Cheers
Me, either - and it's the only problem that I'm having with ML or any of my hardware. Sort of annoying - I just manually check in every other day - but it would be nice if it worked.
Clinton

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