Update Information: August 18, 2013 (Updates)
Engine Updates
Nothing new today
Chess News
Norm Pollock site
PGN, EPD & TXT Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- updated: "stalemates" (pgn database)
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html
Down/Problem Chess Websites
Alex WBTM homepage down for 27 days (a multimania site)
Bestia homepage down for 42 days (a 110mb.com site)
Bright homepage down for 18 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Fianchetto homepage down for 42 days (502 error: bad gateway)
Hamsters homepage down for 6 days (not found)
Kiwi homepage down for 6 days (not found)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 42 days (a 110mb.com site)
Nejmet homepage down for 26 days (a multimania site)
Spark homepage down for 18 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 10 days (a 110mb.com site)
T-Rex homepage down for 27 days (a multimania site)
Wing homepage down for 107 days (not found)
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
Aptana Studio 3.4.2
web software development in an IDE supporting HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, Rails, PHP and Python
w/ code assist, built-in debugging, Git integration, built-in ftp, and more
http://www.aptana.com/
CPU-Z 1.66
free utility to detect all PC hardware & system components
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Parsix GNU/Linux 5.0
Debian-based distro; GNOME 3 desktop; #77 in popularity
http://www.parsix.org/
Meaning of Colors
Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only
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