Update Information: December 11, 2010 (Updates)
Engine Updates
Nothing new today
Chess News
Harry Schnapp books
Opening Books for Arena, ChessBase, Aquarium & Shredder Classic
- HS-Master 4.0 beta.ctg updated (book for Fritz, ChessBase & Aquarium)
http://americanfoot.free.fr/echecs/hsbook.htm
Down/Problem Chess Websites
Akiba homepage down today (404 error)
ChessAlex homepage down for 13 days (404 error)
Frenzee homepage down for 114 days (webpage taken down until new engine release)
NSVChess homepage down for 70 days (403 error: forbidden)
Prophet site down for 40 days ("This domain name expired on 11/01/2010 and is pending renewal or deletion")
Holger Schluckebier Mac builds homepage down for 50 days (internal server error)
Wiki Changes
Nothing new today
Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)
Warnings:
- do not install unwanted toolbars, etc.
- alpha releases have new features; crashes and bugs are to be expected
- beta releases have new features; they may contain bugs or crash
- release candidate software may contain minor bugs; crashes are rare
Drupal 7.0 RC 2
open source PHP-based content management platform for websites
- this is a *release candidate*
http://drupal.org/home
GParted Live 0.7.0-11
open source Gnome Partition Editor- resize, move, copy, check, label your hard drive's partitions
understands most file systems including all for Windows and Linux
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/ (project page)
Groovy++ 0.4.97
this is an extension to the standard Groovy jvm language; it supports better runtime efficiency
http://code.google.com/p/groovypptest/downloads/list
Thunderbird 3.1.7
Mozilla's excellent open source email program
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ (homepage)
µTorrent 2.2 (build 23703)
open source BitTorrent client
http://www.utorrent.com/
Meaning of Colors
Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only
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