This list explains terms used when discussing BitTorrent clients, and in particular the BitTorrent protocol used by these clients.
Famous quotes containing the words bit, torrent and/or terms:
“Sadie: How’d you get him here? He was out stiff.
Jack: Hair of the dog that bit him.
Sadie: Hair? He must have swallowed the dog.”
—Robert Rossen (1908–1966)
“The torrent of the reaching shade
Broke shadow into all its parts,
What then had been of shadow made
Found exigence in fits and starts....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“One of the most highly valued functions of used parents these days is to be the villains of their children’s lives, the people the child blames for any shortcomings or disappointments. But if your identity comes from your parents’ failings, then you remain forever a member of the child generation, stuck and unable to move on to an adulthood in which you identify yourself in terms of what you do, not what has been done to you.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)