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This standard writes to DVD+R media and is write once read many (WORM). It is being pushed by HP, Dell, and others as the next de facto DVD writing standard, along with DVD+RW.
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DVD+R - In article ,richards1052@comcast.net says: Qwest, how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways ...I switched from Qwest to McLeodUSA. Nothing by trouble. I suspectedmuch of it was actually caused by Qwest, since it was their line.CallerID would not work correctly, instead of it sending 319-334-xxxxand the Callers Name, it would say, xxxx Unavailable. Only the last 4digits. Only on local calls, and only on local calls from a business.Weird. McLeod had no clue, and blamed Qwest. Long Distance wouldn'twork either. At all, no LD could be dialed out. I couldn't evenforce calls to another carrier using the 1010-XXX numbers. McLeodsaid Qwest had screwed something up in the switch that prevented LDfrom working.And then, Qwest has the nerve to send me a postcard asking me Are youhaving problems with your new provider? We bet you are, Come backhome to Qwest ...So I did, I couldn't live with all the problems, I hate Qwest, but atleast my phone worked. Took 3 weeks to get McLeod to release the lineback to Qwest.The long distance problems remained, although I could now dial calls,they were now being routed to McLeod long distance, instead of AT&Twhich I asked for when switching back to Qwest!! And they werebilling me $.10 instead of $.07! So I refused to pay the extra$.03/min to McLeod. Eventually I got that fixed, a problem in Switchprogramming that nobody could find until the finally referred thetrouble to Switch Engineering.The callerID still did not work. It took me 14 months to get Qwest tofix it. They finally took a serious look at it after I complained tothe Vice President of Consumer Services at the Qwest Executive Officevia Certified Mail. They spent a week saying Gee, that's reallyweird, but how can it be our fault? Replace your equipment. Irespond with, Gee, that is weird, I got the freaking equipment fromQwest, it is BRAND NEW, it works exactly the same way as 3 modems, aDish Network receiver with CID, three CID phones, and about 6different CID boxes, some from Qwest/USWest, and some fromWally-World. Fix YOUR crap.Eventually, after much insistence from me, they turned the troubleticket over to the Switching Engineering Group who said, Wow, look atthis, we screwed up the programming on this guy's line when we switchedhim to McLeod, and somehow missed it for the last 14 months, eventhough he has been opening trouble tickets on it every two weeks forover a year!!I eventually got a credit for just under $100, for 14 months ofCallerID service at $6.95/month. I now have their unlimited plan for$44.95/mo that includes all my long distance calls, and for the firsttime in my life, I'm actually satisfied with my Qwest service. It hasbeen working perfectly. They probably have a note on my account thatthey can't screw up my line anymore or I'll bitch to the big shots!This is nothing though, the problems we had with Qwest/USWest when Iworked at a cellular company were really bad. T1 lines with two hourresponse time that were down for days, or months in one case. Butthey were way better than GTE, who always claimed they didn't evenprovide some of our spans, even when we gave them the circuit number.
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