Engine Updates

Pupsi2 0.08 (UCI)
Win32; engine requires .NET 3.5 framework
- changed from .NET 1.1 to .NET 3.5
- performance improvements
- better default values for some options
- removed a number of options, no longer used
- new opening book
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/Pupsi.html

Down chess websites
Armageddon site down today
RBrChess site down for 5 days (exceeded quota?)
Smirf site down for 41 days
Sourceforge site still having troubles loading some sites in a reasonable amount of time
Amundsen site back up
Superchessengine site back up

Lyapko utilities site at 100mb.com listed as attack site by Google
- part of this site was listed for suspicious activity
- 5 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent

Chess News

SCID
2 revision(s) to the C++ source code today (patchset = 521)
no build for this version
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
- added Nero
- added link to Nejmet home page
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_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

AIMP 2.60 Build 520
free audio player with audio converter, recorder, and tag editor; Internet radio
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aimp.ru%2F&sl=ru&...

Amaya 11.3
open source remote web editor supporting HTML, CSS, XML, etc.
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

Audacity 1.3.10 Beta
popular open source sound editor/recorder
this is a new *beta* release
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Auslogics Disk Defrag 3.1.1.80
free disk defragmentation program. Recommended.
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag

Autoruns 9.57
free system information utility from Microsoft
shows programs configured to run during system bootup or login, and the order which Windows processes them
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/Autoruns.mspx

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 RC 2
excellent open source email program; this is a *release candidate*!
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ (homepage)
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/early_releases/downloads/ (beta page)

Meaning of Colors

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

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