Engine Updates

Bouquet 1.6 (UCI)
Win32/64; Ippolit derivative
https://sites.google.com/site/chessbouquet/descarga-bouquet-chess-engine

Nebula 1.0 (UCI)
original new engine by Dragan Zdravkovic
Win32/64; mp; multi-pv
- "multi PV mode, multi-Processor support (up to 16 processors) and Nalimov endgame tablebases"
- there are 2 useful pgn utilities at the site too
https://sites.google.com/site/nebulachess/

Chess News

Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Bestia homepage down for 37 days (a 110mb.com site)
CCCP homepage down today (not found)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 522 days
Denis Mendoza homepage down today (empty page)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 37 days (a 110mb.com site)
OChess homepage down for 37 days (not found)
Powder homepage down for 36 days (project removed)
Revati homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)

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

FileZilla Client 3.6.0.2
open source cross-platform ftp client; recommended
http://filezilla-project.org/

FrostWire 5.5.0
open source, cross-platform Java-based BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) client
http://www.frostwire.com/

MariaDB 5.5.28a Stable
MariaDB 5.3.11 Stable
MariaDB 5.2.13 Stable
MariaDB 5.1.66 Stable
open source fork of MySQL; completely compatible w/MySQL; w/extra db engines & extra features
"MariaDB is a binary drop-in replacement for MySQL"
MariaDB restores several significant features that Oracle has dropped from MySQL
- this is an important security update
http://kb.askmonty.org/ (homepage)
http://kb.askmonty.org/v/mariadb-versus-mysql-features (extra features)
http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5528a-release-notes (release notes)

Puppy Linux 'Fatdog64-610'
Puppy is a popular (#12) and easy-to-learn, easy-to-use Linux distribution
Open source, boots from a CD (your Windows installation is unchanged) w/ simple instruction manual
old, slow computers run very well using Puppy's all-in-memory Linux kernel
There are many versions of Puppy available, each with a specific purpose
You don't necessarily use the latest release, you use the version with the software you want
You will need to know how to burn a disk from an ISO image
- Precise Puppy is binary-compatible with Ubuntu LTS 12.04.1
- Wary Puppy is intended to run on older hardware
- Racy Puppy is a mod of Wary Puppy, supporting the newest machines
- Slacko Puppy can use Puppy, Slackware, Salix, or Slacky software repositories
- Fatdog64 is a 64-bit Puppy distro; it is larger than most other Puppys
http://puppylinuxnews.org/ (news)
http://puppylinux.org/ (PuppyLinux homepage)
http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/ (Fatdog homepage)

Qt libraries 4.8.4
open source, cross-platform windowing system / GUI builder / C++ library; includes a Visual Studio add-in
http://qt.nokia.com/downloads

Speccy 1.19
free Windows system information tool
http://www.piriform.com/speccy (Speccy homepage)
http://www.piriform.com/blog/2012/11/29/speccy-v119 (announcement)

Meaning of Colors

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

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