Engine Updates

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Chess News

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Down/Problem Chess Websites

Bearded homepage down for 2 days (not available)
Belofte homepage down for 45 days ("this site has been suspended")
ChestUCI homepage down for 40 days (a 110mb.com site)
Dolphin homepage down for 43 days (not found)
Igor Gorelikov Tools page down for 26 days (a 110mb.com site)
InmiChess homepage down for 40 days (no response in 60 seconds)
JavaRival homepage down for 7 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Pyotr homepage down for 40 days (not found)
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 40 days (a 110mb.com site)

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

FrostWire 5.5.6
open source, cross-platform Java-based BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) client
http://www.frostwire.com/

GPartEd 0.16.0
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)

MariaDB 10.0.2 Alpha
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
- I don't usually list alpha/beta databases, but this one is interesting due to the inclusion of multi-source replication
- "do not use alpha releases on production systems"
http://kb.askmonty.org/ (homepage)
http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-100 (What is MariaDB 10.0?)
https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.0/ (MariaDB 10.0 page)

PeaZip 4.9.2
open source cross-platform file and archive manager; available as portable app also
- create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, PAQ/ZPAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, WIM, XZ, ZIP
- extract 150+ archive types: ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA, RAR, UDF, etc.
http://peazip.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/peazip/files/4.9.2/ (4.9.2 downloads)

Meaning of Colors

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

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