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John Moxon Samba Moderator
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Bobnotch Samba Member
Joined: July 06, 2003 Posts: 22410 Location: Kimball, Mi
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Yeah, it's hard to believe it's been 4 years now. It seems like it was almost yesterday. I still miss him when I get stuck on something, as he forgot more than I ever knew about VWs. Was a great guy to hang out with, drink a beer, and BS about VWs
John, you'll get to see my old T-34 (that I got from Russ) in your area, and at some of the shows there in the UK, as that's where it went. _________________ Bob 65 Notch S with Sunroof
71 Notch ...aka Krunchy; build pics here;
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=249390 -been busy working
64 T-34 Ghia...aka Wolfie, under construction... http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=412120
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EverettB Administrator
Joined: April 11, 2000 Posts: 69807 Location: Phoenix Metro
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 2:34 pm Post subject: Re: RIP Russ Wolfe (1943 - 2011) |
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KTPhil noticed that http://classicvw.org no longer works, which lost a lot of links / photos / articles that were posted here in the past.
It looks like it got taken over by one of those random companies that poach domains when they expire too.
I think his website was being hosted and run by Russ' son in San Diego, CA?
Does anyone have any contact information to see if we can either get it back up or maybe get the information moved elsewhere? _________________ How to Post Photos
Everett Barnes - [email protected] | My wanted ads
"Water is the only drink for a wise man" | "Communication prevents complaints"
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KTPhil Samba Member
Joined: April 06, 2006 Posts: 34002 Location: Conejo Valley, CA
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 4:19 pm Post subject: Re: RIP Russ Wolfe (1943 - 2011) |
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You can manually look for some pics using the "swayback machine" (aka, https://archive.org/web/)
Just enter the url http://classicvw.org
it looks like some of it was still up as of March of this year.
But it would be better to have it stored on a DVD (or archived on the Samba, though I don't know how large the total content is.
If there is anyone who has the gallery archived, please contact Everett or myself, and let's see what we can do.
The note from main page from the swayback machine archive states:
My son Mark is career Navy, and currently stationed in San Diego, CA, as a systems administrator. This page is being served from his server in his garage, on a DSL line. http://www.wolfenet.org
However, it looks like that wolfenet.org server is down. |
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EverettB Administrator
Joined: April 11, 2000 Posts: 69807 Location: Phoenix Metro
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 9:55 pm Post subject: Re: RIP Russ Wolfe (1943 - 2011) |
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KTPhil wrote: |
My son Mark is career Navy, and currently stationed in San Diego, CA, as a systems administrator. This page is being served from his server in his garage, on a DSL line. http://www.wolfenet.org
However, it looks like that wolfenet.org server is down. |
It's live, its just displaying nothing of use on the home page.
He appears to have done that on purpose, it's possible he has it set up to only show real content when you have an exact link to something.
wolfenet.org homepage wrote: |
move along, nothing to see here.... |
Anyway, if anyone knows Mark's contact info, please ask him
I made an educated guess that it's mark at wolfenet.org so I tried that. _________________ How to Post Photos
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John Moxon Samba Moderator
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markw Samba Member
Joined: December 13, 2007 Posts: 31
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 8:44 am Post subject: Re: RIP Russ Wolfe (1943 - 2011) |
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Looks like the domain expired. All the stuff is still there. I can move it under wolfenet. Will look at it tonight. |
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EverettB Administrator
Joined: April 11, 2000 Posts: 69807 Location: Phoenix Metro
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 10:01 am Post subject: Re: RIP Russ Wolfe (1943 - 2011) |
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markw wrote: |
Looks like the domain expired. All the stuff is still there. I can move it under wolfenet. Will look at it tonight. |
Great, I can do a bulk database update to change every link from classicvw.org to wolfenet.org if everything else in the URL is the same. _________________ How to Post Photos
Everett Barnes - [email protected] | My wanted ads
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EverettB Administrator
Joined: April 11, 2000 Posts: 69807 Location: Phoenix Metro
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Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 8:57 am Post subject: Re: RIP Russ Wolfe (1943 - 2011) |
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EverettB wrote: |
markw wrote: |
Looks like the domain expired. All the stuff is still there. I can move it under wolfenet. Will look at it tonight. |
Great, I can do a bulk database update to change every link from classicvw.org to wolfenet.org if everything else in the URL is the same. |
Someone asked about this recently, any update on making the content available again? _________________ How to Post Photos
Everett Barnes - [email protected] | My wanted ads
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KTPhil Samba Member
Joined: April 06, 2006 Posts: 34002 Location: Conejo Valley, CA
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2017 8:43 am Post subject: Re: RIP Russ Wolfe (1943 - 2011) |
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I am reviving this thread as a call to fellow Samba members and anyone who knows Russ's family. I'd like to gather many of the files he hosted, and I may be able to rehost it for us. So please reply (or PM or email) if you have either of the following:
1) contact info for his family, in case the server is available to down load from.
2) any large stash of files you downloaded previously from classicvw.org
There is a large body of documents and knowledge, and this would also be a way to keep Russ in our minds and hearts despite his passing. I think we all owe a debt, especially the Type 3 folks like me, whether we met him or not.
Please check your emails, posts, hard disks, etc, and post or contact me.
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EverettB Administrator
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markw Samba Member
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 3:43 pm Post subject: Re: RIP Russ Wolfe (1943 - 2011) |
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Just emailed Everett, this has been on my back burner. Time to figure out what he had posted, I've got all the files.
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hazetguy Samba Member
Joined: April 06, 2001 Posts: 10773 Location: iT StiNgeD iTseLf tO dEAd
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 5:54 pm Post subject: Re: RIP Russ Wolfe (1943 - 2011) |
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i just found a 3.35GB folder with a lot of factory manuals and parts catalogs that Russ had scanned for me. pretty sure this was the stuff that was on his website.
who and how can I get it to someone?
here's what I've got (yes, the folders all have lots of content):
_________________ thebucket: I invested in hoodride, now DBD won't return my call?
hazetguy: invested?
thebucket: Yeah Haze, its where people put money into a company in hopes of a return on their money |
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EverettB Administrator
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 6:32 pm Post subject: Re: RIP Russ Wolfe (1943 - 2011) |
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I asked markw what he has and if he can send me a USB drive with it and I can add it directly to the site here.
Now that you mention it hazetguy, I have a similar folder Russ sent me but you appear to have a couple more subdirectories.
If Mark can't provide a complete list, I would like to get what I am missing and see if I can add it here for reference at least.
I told mark that when I did a site search, it looked like most of the pics here I found right away are linked to files under classicvw.org/gallery/... or classicvw.org/gallery2/...
Gallery is a publicly available gallery program that Russ used to host photos. _________________ How to Post Photos
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oxsign Samba Member
Joined: February 19, 2006 Posts: 607 Location: Sanford, FL
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2017 12:33 pm Post subject: Re: RIP Russ Wolfe (1943 - 2011) |
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EverettB wrote: |
I asked markw what he has and if he can send me a USB drive with it and I can add it directly to the site here.
Now that you mention it hazetguy, I have a similar folder Russ sent me but you appear to have a couple more subdirectories.
If Mark can't provide a complete list, I would like to get what I am missing and see if I can add it here for reference at least.
I told mark that when I did a site search, it looked like most of the pics here I found right away are linked to files under classicvw.org/gallery/... or classicvw.org/gallery2/...
Gallery is a publicly available gallery program that Russ used to host photos. |
Any update on this by chance? I know there was a ton of stuff there. _________________ 1971 Squareback, fully bagged, 1776.
Build thread here.....
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=...mp;start=0 |
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KTPhil Samba Member
Joined: April 06, 2006 Posts: 34002 Location: Conejo Valley, CA
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2017 3:07 pm Post subject: Re: RIP Russ Wolfe (1943 - 2011) |
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Yes, I got sidetracked but this holiday weekend I will finish up. I have a thumb +drive of files from hazetguy, and will add a few I have as well, then send it to Everett.
What I am not finding is the set of photos in his gallery, so we'll still have a bunch of broken links. I've tried the "way back machine" but it only has the index pages, not the documents themselves. |
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oc92 Samba Member
Joined: November 30, 2005 Posts: 521 Location: NC
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Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 12:25 am Post subject: Re: RIP Russ Wolfe (1943 - 2011) |
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what a nice legacy... thanks for carrying the torch for Russ
He is leaning over the steering wheel on a bus giving the peace sign .... or the other sign if he disagrees with the random, flawed, unavoidable but easily correctable technical advice. _________________ " ... he walked the pavement of the city- a beggar and a king. Has it been otherwise with any man?" WOLFE
72 bus
70 bug
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