Update Information: February 17, 2012 (Updates)
Engine Updates
Zeta OpenCL 0.9521 (UCI)
this is an experimental, source-code-only engine that uses a GPU for calculations
special requirements: Linux64 with AMD OpenCL SDK or NVidia OpenCL SDK
this is not a complete chess engine yet: no ep or castling moves
- source code only
http://zeta-chess.blogspot.com/ (blog)
https://github.com/smatovic/Zeta/tree/zeta_nvidia_09521 (source)
Chess News
Nothing new today
Down/Problem Chess Websites
ChessAlex homepage is down for 59 days
Dann Corbit homepage down for 235 days
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
Calibre 0.8.40
cross-platform open source ebook manager for all popular ebook readers with format conversion,
news feeds, and integrated e-book viewer
http://calibre-ebook.com/
Firefox 10.0.2
popular, free, open source browser; recommended!
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html
Process Explorer 15.13
displays information about which Windows handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx
SeaMonkey 2.7.2
open source all-in-one Internet suite: browser, email, news feed, newsgroups, IRC chat, & html editor
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
System Explorer 3.8.3
free; detailed info about Windows tasks, processes, modules, startups, IE addons, uninstallers, windows,
services, drivers, connections and opened files; graphs monitor usage of system resources in real-time
http://www.systemexplorer.net/
Thunderbird 10.0.2
Mozilla's excellent open source email program
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ (homepage)
µTorrent 3.1.2 stable (26753)
very popular and fast open source BitTorrent client
http://www.utorrent.com/ (homepage)
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=112660 (3.1.2 forum thread)
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