Archive for April, 2008

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The History of Bungie is the history of a small (2 person) independent gaming software company that became a landmark in gaming with the Halo series.

Fate/stay night

From anidb:
Emiya Shirou is a highschool boy who lives in Fuyuki City. His parents died in a fire when he was young, after that he was adopted by an old man who refer himself as a sorcerer, but he died too.
What Shirou doesn’t know, is that the underground of Fuyuki City is the place [...]

def simpson(f, a, b, n):
    "Approximate the definite integral of f from a to b by Simpson's rule."

    if n % 2 != 0:
        print "Ups: n must be even!"
        return -1
        
    h  = (float(b) - a)/n
    
    si = 0.0
    sp = 0.0
    
    for i in range(1, n, 2):
        xk = a [...]

My friend José Gaspar will be teaching an Advanced Administration Course (Curso Administração Avançada de Servidores Linux)
Some highlights/keywords:

Servers: WWW, FTP, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, E-Mail
Samba (with quotas)
Security
XEN

Location: Rua da Boavista, Porto Portugal (link)
Date: From April 22 to June 3.
Schedule: Tuesday and Thursday, 19h-23h (4h)
Duration: 72h
Price: 300 euros
More information (in portuguese):
http://moodle.libhertz.com
http://www.solutionsout.com/cursos.htm

MNUM - Gauss

# this requires numpy get it from http://numpy.sf.net

from copy import deepcopy
from numpy import *

# this function, swapRows, was adapted from
# Numerical Methods Engineering with Python, Jean Kiusalaas
def swapRows(v,i,j):
    """Swaps rows i and j of vector or matrix [v]."""
    if len(v) == 1:
        v[i],v[j] = v[j],v[i]
    else:
        temp = v[i].copy()
        v[i] = v[j]
   [...]