Run TextEdit As Root

Posted on 2013/06/27 by Publican — Leave a comment

Need to edit a file as root, make sure TextEdit isn’t running, then open the Terminal and: sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit & open -a “TextEdit” /etc/hosts The first command (line) runs TextEdit as root; the second one tells it to open the…

Simple Edit To Enable MacBook Air Super Drive On All Computers

Posted on 2012/04/02 by Publican — Leave a comment

The file is: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist You need to add/edit two lines: the first is Kernel Flags and the second is mbasd=1. Insert “mbasd=1″ in the <string></string> value below the <key>Kernel Flags</key> (If the string is not empty to begin with (it…