A Quiet November

posted by on 1st December 2009, at 4:29pm | 1 Comment

November was kicked off with Alex looking at the variety of changes that occured in his Runescape career. Marco gave us a rundown of one of the major changes to Runescape, The Grand Exchange. Jason further expanded his equipment series highlighting items that give a good attack, range, or mage bonus. Finally, Alex and Kirby both give their perspectives on Runescape Classic.

November was fairly quiet with respect to high profile updates. The most shocking of these would have to be the changes made to the Runecrafting skill, which you can read about in Davo’s guest article. Along with this update came tweaks to the high level Herblore potions and the “Surge” Magic spells, which were covered by Chris. November was wrapped up with the Thanksgiving 2009 “Cryptic Clue Fest” covered by Tim. With this being said Marco has added on a new weekly Economy article covering economy highlights of the week, this is usually released Friday.

In tech I wrote about the Apple Tax, it does exist, the question is if you can justify paying it. Kenny covered the release of the hyped and somewhat shunned (on the PC at least) Modern Warfare 2.

The November Skill of The Month was tied by Ataronchronon and Italy4life. They both gained 7,150,000 experience in this Woodcutting SKOTM. Congratulations to you both, here are your trophies:

Italy4life November 2009 SKOTM

Ataronchronon November 2009 SKOTM

You can observe December’s Magic SKOTM while you wait to sign up for January 😉

That’s all for November 🙂

The Apple Tax

posted by on 17th November 2009, at 10:13pm | 3 Comments
The idea of an Apple Tax is expressed in many ways from the traditional “z0mg!! MacBook costs $300 more than HP!!1!1!!” to cost analyses of the components going into each machine. The Apple Tax is often seen as an arbitrary price increase on hardware bought from Apple. The tax rate has fluctuated over recent years […]

October 2009 – A Not So Spooky Month

posted by on 1st November 2009, at 4:47pm | No Comments
Jagex kicked off October with the Display Name system (Alex). Which was later followed by the highly controversial High Level Herblore update (Shwa). We were greeted with two Ardougne centred articles, the Achievement Diary (Jason) and Within The Light (Mli), part 8 of the Plague series. Finally of course we have the Halloween update (Alex). […]

Basic Hardware Architecture

posted by on 20th October 2009, at 6:39pm | 1 Comment
Taking the next logical step after looking at various aspects of computer science and 64- vs. 32-bit it’s time to look at the model all modern computers use. This article covers general structure, CPU breakdown, memory breakdown, and IO breakdown. It is then all tied together with expaining the job of a motherboard chipset.

September 2009

posted by on 2nd October 2009, at 2:49pm | No Comments
This past month we had a rather condensed month on Informer. September started off with a wrap up in my Windows 7 and Snow Leopard series. Next up was a look at the upcoming Call of Duty game Modern Warfare 2 or Modern Warfare Déjà Vu. Runescape brought us the next quest in the Chaos […]

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