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Mac - dvd drive not visible in Finder

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In MAC, the dvd drive gets listed in finder only if a dvd is present. Else it's hidden. In some rare cases, even after you inserted a drive, the disk might not be visible in finder and since there is no eject hardware button near the DVD, there doesn't seem to be a way for removing the disk. Browsing around, found the following ways (from multiple sources) to eject the disk and re-insert it: Force restart finder. Open disk utilities (Applications/Utilities/DiskUtility) and the drive should be available there. Right click on it and select eject. Command line always rocks. Run the following in a terminal:  drutil tray eject Cross posted from:  http://techieconnect.blogspot.com/2011/11/mac-dvd-not-visible-in-finder.html

Tips to go about debugging huge products

Original post @ http://bschandramohan.blogspot.com/2008/02/tips-to-go-about-debugging-huge.html @ 2/15/2008 05:25:00 PM So it's been around 3 yrs since I worked on a maintenance product trying to understand the existing codebase, layers, architecture etc. It's always easy to start on V1 products I had worked for in MT or the "Prototype" projects in MS. And now to work on a product with millions of lines of code with as little documentation available as possible & to complete it in next 3 months, it's going to be a tough task Here are some tips to go about it - Understand the usage of the product. Typical way is to behave as a customer and use the product without caring about the testcases. Learn the technology (Guys.. can u point me to a good & quick COM tutorial :-)) If you can figure out the high level modules, try to understand the gist of the modules. If you can debug the product source code, put in breakpoints, view the stacktrace (big thanks to...