Enabling/disabling applets from the Terminal in OS X

As of the massive security snafu, I to toggle applet support on and off fairly frequently in OS X. I've come to find that the Java Control Panel in OS X crashes (complaining about a problem with Sparkle) about 1 in 3 times and once it's crashed, it can't come back up again without restarting the machine.
Is it possible to toggle applet functionality at the command line instead of having to use this severely broken Control Panel?

Internet recovery has limitations on the types of wifi network it will connect to if you have an 'open' network it may not show up…
OS X: About OS X Recovery
If you can use a wired ethernet connection if available.
Rebooting the router may not hurt if you have access to that - but it will affect others on the network for a brief period.
It does sound like your router is setup not to hand out DHCP leases - these are responsible for giving the Mac a local IP address. Nowadays this is non-standard networking setup & will make recovery mode fail. One thing you could do is share the internet connection from your friends Mac, but that would require a cable between the two computers. At least then his Mac would run DHCP & give your Mac an IP address to make internet routing work.
This covers how to share an Internet connection assuming you have the required cable & adaptor.
http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/05/enable-internet-sharing-mac-os-x/
You could also resolve it by changing the router setup to hand out addresses via DHCP, but that requires admin access to the router, find the router manual & see how you enable DHCP on it.
The ethernet adaptor will also fail if the router is not giving out addresses on the wired LAN.

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brando56894 wrote:
I put it in my .bashrc and when I reload .bashrc I get this:
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