RSBANDBUpdate! Episode 37 -- "Can I Quit You"

Shane · **Posted:** March 5th, 2006, 7:09 pm

Here's this week's show. This week we had Crysala as guest. Pretty good show.

A Fairy Tale Part I. Martin the master gardener is confused. What can have caused all his crops to fail? Pop down to Draynor Village and try to help him get to the root of the problem. Is there something more serious going on, or are these just growing pains? Players clever enough to solve the problem will be rewarded with a generous dose of xp, and even a new farming tool to help you get the most out of your crops.
Quest info: 2qp, 3500 farming xp, 2000 attack xp, 1000 magic xp.
New readers letters. Some good ones this month and humourous as always. Featuring the goblins this month and the age old question of whether or not the world is round
Zanaris graphics upgrade, all blue now.
You can see some pics on the blog here: http://shane.rsbandb.com/2006/02/27/the ... tale-pt-1/
9 people voted on the rsbandb news poll, (yes there is a poll, you can see it when you view the news on our forums) 10 people voted and it was classed as average by 7 of these folks.
Rule 12 reminder, which is the no trading rs items for real life cash. Recently launched a new system which can detect these types of trades. 992 people have been banned thus far. There are no official runescape gold websites. "We've even had queries from players complaining they didn't receive an item they paid real-life money for - which given it's against the rules anyway seems a strange thing to tell us!" More on this in questions...
Listener Questions - Lots
This week apple released an intel Mac mini and some ipod speakers. The new mini's are reportedly faster than the old ones, no doubt. The core solo goes for $599 US and the core duo goes for $799 US. Apple says they are 2.5x - 3.2x faster than the old power pc ones. Based on looking at some benchmarks we can see that they are definately faster. The processor is upgradeable if you do it yourself and void your warranty. All in all they should be good. Very media centric, would make a good media center pc. The speakers are good for pop/rock but apparently don't sound too haot on classical. If you want more check out macbreak.
I was getting tired of thunderbird errors and what not, so I decided to move my email over to gmail and use it as a client. However as I did that someone wrote a guide to do just that. It does require that you can forward your emails somewhere else. good guide, i thought i'd mention it: http://www.zymic.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=8665
Windows vista will support upgrades on the fly. Meaning if you want to upgrade, no need to go out and buy another CD, just buy it online. "Microsoft is going to pack all four operating systems versions into a single disc package. Once installed, a quick trip to the Control Panel is all you'll need to upgrade from Home Basic all the way to Ultimate, should your heart desire. That, and a credit card." If you have too much vista you'll be able to downgrade =) They say people won't be able to hack their version up. More here: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060301-6295.html
Rants++
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