Engine Updates

Jim Ablett Win/Linux builds
Betsabé II 1.0 JA (WB)
by Juan Benitez, Dieter Steinwender, & Chrilly Donninger
Betsabé II is open sourse and based on MiniMAX Chess, by Dieter Steinwender and Chrilly Donninger
C source w/ Spanish comments & var names; Win32, Linux32
http://jimablett.hostwebs.com/

See also: http://home.pacific.net.au/~tommyinoz/minimax.html
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&a...

JaksaH 1.10 (WB)
Win32/64
- no info on update
http://sites.google.com/site/jaksahchess/

Chess News
Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Aldebaran homepage down for 60 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Armageddon homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Bearded homepage down for 6 days
Brutus homepage down for 8 days
Fianchetto homepage down for 37 days (configuration error)
Frenzee homepage down for 182 days (webpage down until new engine release)
Genesis homepage down for 35 days
SharpChess, Sharper homepage down for 10 days (domain expired)
Sorgenkind homepage down for 48 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Usurper homepage down for 47 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

Ghostery for Firefox 2.5
free browser addon; alerts you about web bugs, ad networks and tracking widgets
on every web page you visit; "See who's tracking your web browsing and block them"
- only the FireFox version is updated
http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9609/
http://www.ghostery.com/download

GParted Live 0.8.0-1
open source Gnome Partition Editor - resize, move, copy, check, label your hard drive's partitions
understands most file systems including all for Windows and Linux
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/ (project page)

PHP 5.3.6 RC 1
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)

System Explorer 2.7.3
free; detailed info about 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/

VirtualBox 4.0.4
open source, general-purpose, full virtualizer for x86 hardware
runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris as host
install several guest operating systems onto the same computer
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes (list of guest operating systems)
http://www.virtualbox.org/ (homepage)

Meaning of Colors

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

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