Update Information: March 3, 2011 (Updates)
Engine Updates
Capivara LK 0.07s2 (WB)
C source; Win32/64; TSCP derivative; requires VC runtimes
- no info about update
http://vivaxadrez.wikispaces.com/Capivara
Chess News
Nothing new today
Down/Problem Chess Websites
Aristarch homepage down for 6 days
Bearded homepage down for 21 days
Brutus homepage down for 20 days
Fianchetto homepage down for 51 days (configuration error)
Frenzee homepage down for 196 days (webpage down until new engine release)
Genesis homepage down for 49 days
Sorgenkind homepage down for 62 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Usurper homepage down for 61 days
Monik homepage back up
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
Game Booster 2.3 (0303)
free; increases performance by temporarily shutting down background processes
and maximizing available RAM; Recommended!
http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html (homepage)
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Game_Booster_d5952.html (download)
IzPack 4.3.4 RC 1
IzPack 5.0.0 beta 6
free Java cross-platform installer for packaging, distributing and deploying applications
- this is a *beta* release (experimental) and a *release candidate* (mainstream/stable preview)
http://izpack.org/
LibreOffice 3.3.1
cross platform open source fork of OpenOffice project; word processing, chart, spreadsheet, database, etc.
"The OpenOffice.org trademark is owned by Oracle Corporation"
"Since Oracle's takeover of Sun Microsystems, the [OpenOffice] Community has been under 'notice to quit'"
Oracle wants to make OpenOffice into a commercial product with closed source
- sorry, I missed this update from 2011/02/23
http://www.libreoffice.org/download
PHP 5.3.6 RC 2
PHP is a very popular open source scripting language for web applications
- this is a *release candidate*
http://php.net/ (homepage)
http://qa.php.net/ (RC page)
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Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only
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