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- Aaron is the founder of Spicy Pixel and works in the technology industry on nifty projects that he likes to write about. The contents of this website represent personal opinion and not necessarily those of his employers or sponsors.
![Normally you can change the computer name on a Mac by going to System Preferences / Sharing. After binding a workstation to Open Directory I was unable to change this […]](http://aarononeal.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/image-184x115.png "Change the Computer Name on a Mac")
![Age of Mythology: Including Titans Expansion is a great game, and since the Titan’s Expansion was never released for the Mac, running the PC version is a job for Parallels. […]](http://aarononeal.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/AoM_thumb.png "Age of Mythology Under Parallels")
![One thing I have struggled with through the years is getting computers to sleep and wake up like they’re supposed to. I have usually found the culprit to be one […]](http://aarononeal.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/CatGuitarSleep.png "Mac With Insomnia")
![I noticed while playing Age of Empires III under Parallels that my settings weren’t saved. It turns out that the game uses a hard wired location for the path of […]](http://aarononeal.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/AoE3.png "Age of Empires III Settings")
![I recently experienced an issue where every time I launched iTunes it insisted on “Determining gapless playback information”. That wouldn’t be so bad if it didn’t freeze iTunes for 2 […]](http://aarononeal.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/iTunesPreview.png "iTunes Determining Gapless Playback Information")
![With Mac OS X Server you can configure network accounts that have user home directories hosted on the server. See the earlier post on Home Network Management Strategies as to […]](http://aarononeal.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/HomePreview.png "Mac OS X Server Network Home Directory Sharing")
![If you find yourself maintaining multiple computers, a reality in many homes today, you may be faced with the following administrative tasks. Creating user accounts Keeping user accounts and passwords […]](http://aarononeal.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/MeshNetworkPreview.png "Home Network Management Strategies")
![I recently bought an Apple Mac Mini Server to replace both a Windows Home Server and a Windows Media Center. That’s right, two for one! Why the replacement? Hardware failure in one […]](http://aarononeal.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/MacMiniPreview.png "Mac Mini Server")
![Welcome to my blog! I’m an engineer at a technology company, and so I’m usually up to my elbows in some kind of digital adventure. I hope to share details […]](http://aarononeal.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/WelcomePreview.png "Welcome!")
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