Engine Updates

Nothing new today

Chess News

Norm Pollock site
PGN, EPD & TXT Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- new TXT program: txtAddString - adds a user-specified string to each non-blank line of the input file
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

XBoard Alpha News
- added new section: "Pausing a game"
http://hgm.nubati.net/news.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Alex WBTM homepage down for 57 days (a multimania site)
Bestia homepage down for 72 days (a 110mb.com site)
Bright homepage down for 48 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
EXchess homepage down today (misconfigured)
Fianchetto homepage down for 72 days (502 error: bad gateway)
Hamsters homepage down for 36 days (not found)
Kiwi homepage down for 36 days (not found)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 72 days (a 110mb.com site)
Nejmet homepage down for 56 days (a multimania site)
Spark homepage down for 48 days ("webspace-user is unknown")
Toledo Nanochess homepage down for 3 days (a 110mb.com site)
Tornado homepage down for 8 days (requires password for access)
T-Rex homepage down for 57 days (a multimania site)
Wing homepage down for 137 days (not found)

Wiki Changes

PGN Reader/Viewer/Writer List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added FEN-EPD Viewer
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:pgn_reader_viewer_writer_list

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

Auslogics Disk Defrag 4.2.0.0
free, extremely fast and effective Windows disk defragmentation & optimization program; recommended
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag

Auslogics Registry Cleaner 3.2.0.0
free Windows registry optimizer/cleaner; recommended
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/registry-cleaner/

Firefox 24.0
popular, free, open source browser
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)

MariaDB 5.5.33 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
http://kb.askmonty.org/ (homepage)
http://kb.askmonty.org/v/mariadb-versus-mysql-features (extra features)

NetWorx 5.2.10
free network traffic (bandwidth) monitor & usage reporting w/ real-time graphs
http://www.softperfect.com/products/networx/

Pale Moon 24.0
open source, efficency-optimized build of Firefox source code for Windows
- 32- and 64-bit versions
http://www.palemoon.org/

SeaMonkey 2.21
open source, all-in-one Internet suite: browser, email, news feed, newsgroups, IRC chat, & html editor
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Thunderbird 24.0
Mozilla's excellent open source email program
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ (homepage)

Meaning of Colors

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

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