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Five hacks for your entertainment gadgets

These five hacks will let you take greater control over your entertainment experience. Not satisfied with the puny hard drive in your TiVo or Xbox 360? We'll tell you how to upgrade your device's storage on the cheap. Tired of sitting through commercials with your lousy Comcast cable box? We have the code that lets you skip right past them. We'll show you how to play DVD movies and iTunes purchases on any media player, too.

Quadruple your fun with a four-monitor system

Now here's an alternative to consider: Instead of one big screen, use four smaller ones. You can get four 19-inch wide-screen monitors for significantly less than $800 total. Add $300 for an extra graphics board and a desktop monitor stand, and the cost is still lower than that of one 30-inch display.

Allowing VMware ESX Private Virtual Networks to Migrate

When you use a virtual firewall, it is with trepidation as the VMs protected by the virtual firewall may live only on a private virtual switch within a VMware ESX server. This leads to the inability to vMotion, or migrate the running VMs to other hosts without first powering them down. This is not very useful, but there is another VMware Virtual Center setting that could help.

wanting to start an IT company

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