Thank worked perfectly! Thank you very much. I'm able to mine through the wallet now. I didn't know the command to mine was "generate" so if I put "generate 4" does that specify that I want to use all 4 cores? Is there anyway to check the hashrate?
Thank you again, this totally made my night!
EDIT:
I think I figured it out, so the number does not refer to the number of cores you want to use, it is the number of blocks you want to generate. Right? So generate 1 means you want to mine until you find one block? What is the 500000 for? Is that the time or duration?
Sorry for all the questions, I'm sure you can tell I'm a total noob.