Terminal Tips: Part 2

Continuing from where my last post left off, here are a few more Terminal commands. [4] defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES Deactivates Dashboard. Requires the dock to be relaunched to take effect, so remember to type killall Dock and press enter. Replace YES with NO to enable again. [5] say ______ Not very useful,…

Terminal Tips: Part 1

Terminal is a fantastic way to customize random little settings in OS X, but it’s hard for new Mac users to know what commands do what. So over the next few days I’ll be posting random Terminal commands that I’ve found useful. [1] defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES This will allow you to drag widgets…

Windows XP Won’t Recognize CD Drive

Recently someone approached me with a question about their CD drive, basically Windows XP wasn’t recognizing it, it would only show up in the device manager with the following error message… The device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device (Code 31). Uninstalling and reinstalling the drive yields…