Engine Updates

Carballo (UCI)
- new commit(s) to the source, (rev = 3), no new build
http://sourceforge.net/projects/carballo/ (sourceforge)
http://www.alonsoruibal.com/dev/chess/ (homepage)

Jim Ablett Win builds
- Magnum 1.00 JA (UCI) for Win32
- Xpdnt 091007 JA (WB) for Win32
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Down chess websites
Averno geocities site down permanently, no more homepage
Chaturanga geocities site down 2 days, maybe gone forever?
Crafty Chess Interface site down today
DanChess geocities site down permanently, no more homepage
Fianchetto site down for 4 days
Frenzee site has no content for 8 days
Zebra Chess down for 8 days

Note: GEOCITIES is closing on October 26, 2009.
There are a lot of free engines hosted there that might disappear forever!

Warning: Fimbulwinter site is reported as an attack site!
Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.
3 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent.
Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 2 time(s) over the past 90 days.
Malicious software includes 9 exploit(s), 1 trojan(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 1 new process(es) on the target machine.

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

Maxthon 2.5.9.2246
free IE-based web browser with many extra features and plugins
http://www.maxthon.com/
http://www.maxthon.com/changelog.htm (changelog)

Photosynth 2.0109.1013.1319
free from Microsoft; create a 3D model based on muliple still photos
http://photosynth.net/Default.aspx

Puppy Linux 4.3.1 RC2
Open source, boots from a CD (your Windows installation is unchanged)
You will need to know how to burn a disk from an ISO image
The most easy-to-learn, easy-to-use Linux distribution for Windows users
- new release candidate (beta software)
http://puppylinux.org/ (homepage)
http://puppylinux.com/blog/?viewDetailed=01169 (info & download)

Meaning of Colors

Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

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