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Tony Mokonen Win builds
ShouldntExist 0.3 TM (UCI)
Win32; mp
- build updated today
http://www3.telus.net/tmokonen/SE.exe (direct link)

Chess News
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Down/Problem Chess Websites

Bearded homepage down for 53 days
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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
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- release candidate software may contain minor bugs; crashes are rare

Adblock Plus 1.3.6 for Firefox
free, open source Firefox plugin that blocks most web advertisements
http://adblockplus.org/en/

Akka 1.1.1 Milestone 1
open source library for Scala or Java languages running on the jvm
gives developers a simpler programming model to develop highly reliable
asynchronous, non-blocking applications for concurrent or parallel operation
using Actors, STM & Transactors; multi-core scalable and fault-tolerant
- this is a *beta* release
http://akka.io/ (homepage)

Miranda IM 0.9.19
open source instant messaging program
http://www.miranda-im.org/

MySQL Community Server 5.5.11
free (Community Server Edition only!), and very popular open source SQL database
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ (download)

Vala/Genie software for Windows
Windows builds of software for the Vala/Genie languages
- Vala/Genie compiler 'vala 0.12.0' is updated: this is the latest stable version
http://live.gnome.org/Vala (Vala language page)
http://live.gnome.org/Genie (Genie language page)
http://code.google.com/p/vala-win32/downloads/list (download)

Val(a)IDE 0.7.1
cross-platform IDE for Vala/Genie languages
at this point it is only available as source code
- syntax highlighting for Vala and Genie
- project manager (build/execute)
- support for external building systems (waf, make)
- plugins: symbols browser, tasks manager, files browser, autocompletion
http://www.valaide.org/ (homepage)
http://launchpad.net/valide/trunk/0.7.1/+download/valide-0.7.1.tar.gz (source)

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Hi Ron, just a clarification regarding my ShouldntExist executable. It is not a true compile. It is merely a compile of the batch file that I use to launch the program in Arena, made with the program Bat To Exe Converter. I made this executable for Norbert Raimund Leisner so that he could run this program from within a Chessbase interface, which doesn't allow UCI engines to be launched from a batch file. I couldn't find a true Bash compiler for Windows, so I created this workaround.

I made the assumption that Cygwin's bash.exe would be in the same folder as this file, and that the ShouldntExist script is named SE.sh. To make sure this exe runs properly, the following files all have to be in the same folder (the exe and dll files are part of the Cygwin distribution):

SE.exe
SE.sh
bash.exe
cyggcc_s-1.dll
cygiconv-2.dll
cygintl-8.dll
cygncursesw-10.dll
cygreadline7.dll
cygwin1.dll

I wasn't sure if Cygwin's license allowed distribution of all of these files without source, so I didn't make a portable "all in one" package. Hopefully this helps anyone who may have had trouble using my compiled batch file.

There is also one side effect. An empty DOS shell window will open up when running my executable. Bat To Exe Converter does have an option for a windowless compile, but that didn't seem to work with ShouldntExist and Fritz 10,the product I was testing with, so one must make do with the empty DOS window.