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    Help with a DOS command that isn't working for me

    8.3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename _________________________________ "Thank you for calling Technical Support. If you feel you have reached this number in error, please hang up and try again." ~Jane Barbe
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    Oracle Virtual Box

    Thank you, I thought I tried CD-ROM... _________________________________ "Thank you for calling Technical Support. If you feel you have reached this number in error, please hang up and try again." ~Jane Barbe
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    Oracle Virtual Box

    I have been playing around with VB making various Virtual Machines...just because. It was easy installing Windows Server 2016, Windows 11, Ubuntu and Kali, so I thought I would download other OS's and try it. Here is a screenshot of Ubuntu, Kali, Windows XP SP3, Windows NT Server 4.0, Windows...
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    Compensation for on Call

    Back in the 1990's I worked with an interconnect that paid $50 for the week you were on call and time spent on emergency service calls. The problem is the company would service any system whether they knew it or not: All the variations of Nortel, AT&T, Comdial, Iwatsu, TIE, Panasonic, Inter-Tel...
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    PAYING FOR USING WINDOWS 10

    Next version of Windows will be taking the best of Windows CE, Windows ME and Windows NT and will be called Windows CEMENT. _________________________________ "Thank you for calling Technical Support. If you feel you have reached this number in error, please hang up and try again." ~Jane Barbe
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    PAYING FOR USING WINDOWS 10

    The step from Windows 7 to Windows 10 isn't as strange as it was from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95. _________________________________ "Thank you for calling Technical Support. If you feel you have reached this number in error, please hang up and try again." ~Jane Barbe
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    PAYING FOR USING WINDOWS 10

    All version of Windows have had issues that why there are different versions/updates 1.0, 2.0 3.0 3.1 3.11 XP Service pack 1,2,3... Windows 10...Windows 11... There will never be a final Windows version. _________________________________ "Thank you for calling Technical Support. If you feel...
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    PAYING FOR USING WINDOWS 10

    Guess you should have migrated when Microsoft offered the Windows 10 update for FREE. _________________________________ "Thank you for calling Technical Support. If you feel you have reached this number in error, please hang up and try again." ~Jane Barbe
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    Backups

    The Cloud is just someone else's computer. _________________________________ "Thank you for calling Technical Support. If you feel you have reached this number in error, please hang up and try again." ~Jane Barbe
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    Backups

    6TB...too small? One Drive plans _________________________________ "Thank you for calling Technical Support. If you feel you have reached this number in error, please hang up and try again." ~Jane Barbe
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    Backups

    That's why I posted what I did. One Drive does it Live so there is minimal delay not a day or week delay. Each device probably has it's own user, so it has it's own account. _________________________________ "Thank you for calling Technical Support. If you feel you have reached this number in...
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    Backups

    If you are using Windows you have OneDrive: How to backup your computer to the cloud with OneDrive folder protection: Open up OneDrive settings via the system tray icon and move to the Auto Save tab. Click the Update folders buttons. Select which folders you would like to be backed up and...
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    Arlo camera app not responding

    I don't know what you have tried but try the easy obvious stuff first: Power to the device? Is the network seeing the device? Have you tried the Arlo support website? Arlo Support website _________________________________ "Thank you for calling Technical Support. If you feel you have...
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    Return Loss fail because of water leaching through cable jacket

    I will propose to customer to re-pull with outdoor rated and back charge EC for not using waterproof EMT fittings or rigid." Can you prove the EC didn't? While the slab was poured but before the walls and ceiling were installed...exposed to the outdoor elements (rain, perhaps?). Beside it...
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    Return Loss fail because of water leaching through cable jacket

    If it's in slab you shouldn't use your everyday Cat 6 cable: it's not manufactured for that environment and I would be surprised if an Electrical Inspector would allow it! Use the correct cable for wet locations. _________________________________ "Thank you for calling Technical Support. If you...
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