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  1. Yesterday... by Oscarfish · · Score: 2 · on Following April Fool's Day Around The World?

    ...I announced that I was closing down my site. It is a pretty popular tropical fish discussion board, and at midnight I put up a completely serious announcement that replaced the main page with this page. People started panicking at once. Some good information on how they felt can be seen on this BBS thread.

    I had planeed this out since mid-February and only a few other people (most not associated with the site) knew about it. I think it's pretty funny given the current dot-com climate.

  2. Yesterday... by Oscarfish · · Score: 2 · on Following April Fool's Day Around The World?

    ...I announced that I was closing down my site. It is a pretty popular tropical fish discussion board, and at midnight I put up a completely serious announcement that replaced the main page with this page. People started panicking at once. Some good information on how they felt can be seen on this BBS thread.

    I had planeed this out since mid-February and only a few other people (most not associated with the site) knew about it. I think it's pretty funny given the current dot-com climate.

  3. Yesterday... by Oscarfish · · Score: 2 · on Following April Fool's Day Around The World?

    ...I announced that I was closing down my site. It is a pretty popular tropical fish discussion board, and at midnight I put up a completely serious announcement that replaced the main page with this page. People started panicking at once. Some good information on how they felt can be seen on this BBS thread.

    I had planeed this out since mid-February and only a few other people (most not associated with the site) knew about it. I think it's pretty funny given the current dot-com climate.

  4. I see... by Zecho · · Score: 1 · on Boogie Bass Hacked
    Lots of you asking WTF anyone would want with one of these. The simple answer is...
    1. Remember the NetPliance I-Opener (or whatever it was called)


    Mine would say Hey! You fish lipped it! (from cheech & chong) or something stupid besides. "Take me to the river..."

    Where's OSCARFISH when we need some quick anecdotes?

    I see lot's of useless uses for it.

  5. Re:what happened to generosity? by Oscarfish · · Score: 2 · on RemarQ.com Shutting Down
    It's still around. At my site, for instance, in the space of three years I went from a Tripod piece of crap to what's currently there - and along the way I've built up a strong following, now about 6000 pageviews daily and a strong loyalty of my BBS members.

    I never went into it to make money, and despite the massive amount of ads on the site, I really don't. Hosting is very expensive, right, unless you're working with a stream of venture capital.

  6. Get a Duron. by Oscarfish · · Score: 3 · on Cyrix III Benchmarked
    I'm a proud Pentium III (500E @ 775) and Celeron II (566 @ 993) owner, but the recent benchmarks and overclocking reports (see Anandtech review here) say the Duron is the best deal now. I really hope it will get some decent motherboard support - with the exception of the ASUS K7* and Abit KA7 boards, AMD's chips have always suffered because of quality boards - FIC SD11 anyone?

    With the right motherboards, the Duron will be a real winner. Maybe stick a HighPoint chip on there, to circumvent Via's and AMD's disk transfer rates which are in the crapper...and give us some overclocking options...and you've got a great opportunity for overclocking heaven if you stick an Alpha on it!

    Hopefully Soyo will make a decent Duron board - the 6BA+ IV, their flagship BX model, which my 500E is on, is the best board I've ever used. It's incredibly stable even running 1.5 times faster than normal (image here), and if they make a Duron board I can't wait to see how far people take these things.

  7. Get a Duron. by Oscarfish · · Score: 3 · on Cyrix III Benchmarked
    I'm a proud Pentium III (500E @ 775) and Celeron II (566 @ 993) owner, but the recent benchmarks and overclocking reports (see Anandtech review here) say the Duron is the best deal now. I really hope it will get some decent motherboard support - with the exception of the ASUS K7* and Abit KA7 boards, AMD's chips have always suffered because of quality boards - FIC SD11 anyone?

    With the right motherboards, the Duron will be a real winner. Maybe stick a HighPoint chip on there, to circumvent Via's and AMD's disk transfer rates which are in the crapper...and give us some overclocking options...and you've got a great opportunity for overclocking heaven if you stick an Alpha on it!

    Hopefully Soyo will make a decent Duron board - the 6BA+ IV, their flagship BX model, which my 500E is on, is the best board I've ever used. It's incredibly stable even running 1.5 times faster than normal (image here), and if they make a Duron board I can't wait to see how far people take these things.

  8. Get a Duron. by Oscarfish · · Score: 3 · on Cyrix III Benchmarked
    I'm a proud Pentium III (500E @ 775) and Celeron II (566 @ 993) owner, but the recent benchmarks and overclocking reports (see Anandtech review here) say the Duron is the best deal now. I really hope it will get some decent motherboard support - with the exception of the ASUS K7* and Abit KA7 boards, AMD's chips have always suffered because of quality boards - FIC SD11 anyone?

    With the right motherboards, the Duron will be a real winner. Maybe stick a HighPoint chip on there, to circumvent Via's and AMD's disk transfer rates which are in the crapper...and give us some overclocking options...and you've got a great opportunity for overclocking heaven if you stick an Alpha on it!

    Hopefully Soyo will make a decent Duron board - the 6BA+ IV, their flagship BX model, which my 500E is on, is the best board I've ever used. It's incredibly stable even running 1.5 times faster than normal (image here), and if they make a Duron board I can't wait to see how far people take these things.

  9. Is this different than... by Oscarfish · · Score: 1 · on Appeals Court Upholds COPA Decision
    ...the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act? The BBS software that I use at my site's BBS has a section dedicated to COPPA compliance; I wrote mine like this:

    • I do not comply with COPPA regulations. Government authorities may send threatening letters to legal@oscarfish.com.

    I don't believe in COPPA regulation and will not comply with it as long as I possibly can.

  10. Is this different than... by Oscarfish · · Score: 1 · on Appeals Court Upholds COPA Decision
    ...the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act? The BBS software that I use at my site's BBS has a section dedicated to COPPA compliance; I wrote mine like this:

    • I do not comply with COPPA regulations. Government authorities may send threatening letters to legal@oscarfish.com.

    I don't believe in COPPA regulation and will not comply with it as long as I possibly can.

  11. Fine without it by Oscarfish · · Score: 1 · on Dell To Make MP3 Home Stereo Component

    On my home LAN I have no problems streaming MP3 files from one computer to another. I can listen to music on my webcam machine streamed over the LAN from downstairs at my primary machine. Sure, there's a lot of data being transferred, but it doesn't really interfere with other traffic on the home LAN - the MP3 streaming is all within a firewall, which manages Internet access for...it's now five client machines...off of a single cable modem connection.

  12. Microsoft breakup parody by Oscarfish · · Score: 2 · on Microsoft Quickies

    On the news updates portion of the front page at my page I did a couple of short pieces as a parody of the latest Microsoft situation. Check it out if you'd like...

  13. Fish cam by Oscarfish · · Score: 2 · on JenniCam Celebrates 4-Year Anniversary
    "all I can say is it sure beats the Netscape FishCam"

    And now for something completely different...another fish cam

  14. It's better than Win98, that's for one thing by Oscarfish · · Score: 5 · on Microsoft Vows Security Commitment on Win2K
    I've been using it for a while now (build 2195 final) and I like the NT'ish multiuser, administration, and security options. It's not a "perfect" Windows, by any means, and I don't think it will have such a hold on desktop PCs as Win 98 did, but for NT users craving for more (plug and play is FINALLY here!) and those brave Win 98 people looking for a little more control, it's a good solution.

    I know I don't have to say it, but the security is nothing like what you'd find in Linux (or any UNIX that comes to mind). The Win 2000 "Administrator" account has nothing on root :)

    Thumbs up to Microsoft for (at least) making a decent effort at a flexible, easy to use, and relatively secure operating system (to say it bluntly, "as good as Windows will be for a long while").

    Build 2195 has also made some great strides from the bugged menus and SMP slipups of the early betas (you might remember even RC1 had some serious pitfalls). As much as I may hate to admit it, Microsoft did its homework on this one.

    Win 2000, although perhaps not the Ultimate answer to Linux, is IMHO better in most aspects than NT. It's going on my first personal box for the time being (Red Hat 6.1 on the other) - and also on my webcam server until there's decent USB support in Linux.