Creating a Shared Internet Connection for Gaming During Vacations

Why You Need This Quick WiFi Sharing Solution When staying at holiday parks or vacation rentals, internet connectivity is often limited or unreliable. This can be frustrating when you want to enjoy some gaming time with your kids. The solution? Create your own WiFi sharing setup using two wireless interfaces – your laptop’s built-in WiFi and a USB WiFi dongle. The Perfect Setup in 3 Simple Steps Requirement: a working internet connection. In my case: LandalPremiumWifi ...

February 28, 2025 · 2 min · thomasf

Build your own embedded XBMC HTPC

Earlier I wrote an article how to build a cheap XBMC media center with a XBOX1. But nowadays you want a high definition media center and XVID and DIVX isn’t acceptable anymore on your full HD television. So I read a lot of information how to make an nice media streamer like the popcorn hour, ac rayon and xstreamer but then highly customizable . ...

December 1, 2011 · 4 min · thomasf

Howto: Combine or edit subtitles

Run Subtitle Workshop. Tools > Join Subtitles Check the boxes ‘Load file after join’ and ‘Recalculate time values’. [it will load the new combined file and reset the values on the second part of the subs] ‘Add’ the subtitle files and click ‘Join’. The new combined files will load. Click ‘Movie’ and open the movie file and check the subs sync.

August 29, 2008 · 1 min · thomasf

How to shrink a SQL Transaction Log

For 2005: --\* you can get the logical log file name usingthe following command in Query Analizer: exec "databaseName".dbo.sp_helpfile Now execute the following command to shrink the database log to 200MB: DBCC SHRINKFILE ("logicalLogFileName", 200) BACKUP LOG "databaseName" WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY DBCC SHRINKFILE ("logicalLogFileName", 200) –if it doesn’t work, run the two commands again. –When done with that, do a full backup of your db as you will have broken your tlog backup chain. For 2008+ ...

February 20, 2008 · 1 min · thomasf