[s-cars] 1988 Trans Am footage

[Evan Levine]

I agree with Lee on this one. Torrent is a pain in the butt. But hey, what
do I know about computers anyways ;-)

Regardless, for such a rare and sweet video I did spend the 5 minutes it
took installing things to download it. Well worth it!

Evan


On 1/14/06, Theodore Chen <tedebearp at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> lee,
>
> by now, you must have an old computer sitting around to
> use as a sacrificial machine.
>
> i use my old computer (933 mhz AMD athlon, 300 GB of disk,
> win2k) for downloading and uploading, and i don't keep any
> sensitive stuff on it.
>
> -t.
>
> --- Lee Levitt <lee at wheelman.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Joe. I'm not complaining, just voicing my opinion, which I've
> been
> > doing on the Internet since 1993, which is probably before you were out
> of
> > diapers. :)
> >
> > Lee
> >
> >
> >   _____
> >
> > From: Joe Pizzimenti [mailto:joe.pizzimenti at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 7:58 AM
> > To: lee at wheelman.com
> > Cc: brett at cloud9.net; quattro at audifans.com; 200q20v List; list s-cars
> > S-CAR at audifans.com; List Urq
> > Subject: Re: [s-cars] 1988 Trans Am footage
> >
> >
> > Well, philosophically, you're missing a pretty damn good video and
> > complaining about it to boot.
> >
> > Stop whining and welcome to the internet.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> >
> > On 1/14/06, Lee Levitt <lee at wheelman.com> wrote:
> >
> > Wow, that seems like a lot of work to watch a short video. And
> > philosophically, I'm against loading yet another piece of software on my
> > machine to conduct a single, one-time task. Pen and paper covers most of
> > those.
> >
> > Just one user's feedback. :)
> >
> > Lee
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> > > [mailto:  <mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com>
> > s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Brett Dikeman
> > > Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 12:43 AM
> > > To: quattro at audifans.com; 200q20v List; list s-cars
> > > S-CAR at audifans.com; List Urq
> > > Subject: [s-cars] 1988 Trans Am footage
> > >
> > > Hey all- a little friday evening treat; footage from Sears
> > > Point back in '88, with the 200 quattros ripping up the track
> > > (and then doing some serious power drifts in the rain...and
> > > some so-so AWESOME roaring 5 cylinder sounds!) You MUST have
> > > a bittorrent client to download (popular ones: the "official"
> > > client, uTorrent, and Azureus.  uTorrent is a very small
> > > download, about 130kB: http://
> > > www.utorrent.com/download.php)
> > >
> > >    There are 3-4 of us seeding the file, so there should be
> > > decent bandwidth available.  Yes, it's from a website, but I
> > > wanted a lot of people to see the file without swamping the
> > > guy's webserver, and bittorrent does that sorta thing well
> > > (your computer shares back to others pieces it has already
> > > downloaded.  If you want to speed up the download for others,
> > > continue to leave the bittorrent program open after the
> > > download is complete; you can adjust how much bandwidth it uses, too.)
> > >
> > > Here is the Bittorrent metafile (NOT the video- this is the
> > > file you use to tell the bittorrent client how to download
> > > the video file):
> > >
> > > http://24.91.173.75/~brett/1988searspointaudi.torrent
> > >
> > > Save that file, open it with the bittorrent client, and it'll
> > > download a windows media player file (sorry, only format it's
> > > available in) that is about 24MB.
> > >
> > >    If you are behind a home router, you will get much better
> > > speeds by forwarding the correct port number (which varies-
> > > uTorrent tells you which port , and allows you to 'test' it.)
> > >  If you need further help, please do NOT post to the list or
> > > ask me....google "bittorrent FAQ" or similar...there are
> > > literally dozens of guides out there to explain it all.
> > >
> > > Please do NOT publish on any bittorrent tracker sites or
> > > such, but feel free to share on Audi/car enthusiast email
> > > lists (and please mention my request not to post/publish it
> > > on trackers.)
> > >
> > > Brett
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