Disabling dashboardadvisoryd and configd

Hello.
I've seen different posts regarding the subject but have yet to find a solution. I don't want to get into a political debate over "phoning home", spyware, Apple's policies, etc. I just want to know how I can disable dashboardadvisoryd from interrupting my recording sessions. I am fed up with it trying to connect to Apple when I'm working. I've seen a couple of scripts to disable it online but some people seem to have problems with those.
Is there a quick and easy way I can disable dashboardadvisoryd permanently? What about "configd?" That's another I would like to make inactive (at LEAST, while I'm recording).
Thank you very much for your time and assistance.
G4 MDD Dual 1.25 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2 GB RAM

Bela
OK, try this. You will need to be logged in to an account with admin privileges.
Open the Terminal (from /Applications/Utilities) and copy and paste the following into the Terminal window, one line at a time, with a return after each line:
sudo -s
cd /etc/mach_init.d
cp -p dashboardadvisoryd.plist dashboardadvisoryd.plist.orig
defaults write /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd Disabled -boolean YES
exitWhen you first press return, you will be prompted for your password. This is not echoed for security reasons: just type it and press return.
If you haven't used 'sudo' before, you will receive a little lecture before being prompted for the password. Read it and continue, but be careful, because you are now root until the exit command (the prompt will change to end with a '#').
This may require a restart to take effect.
I hope Apple introduce a GUI way of doing this in the next release!

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