Install Python and Django on Windows

Reblogged from Mirko Bonadei's Personal Blog:

Install the great Django framework on your Windows PC is so simple, you only need to follow a couple of steps, and you will be ready to work.

Step One – Install Python for Windows:

1- On the Python.org Download Page you can simply discover your Windows version of Python. Download it.

2- Open the installer and follow the installation’s steps.

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This post is supercool and I used it to install Python and Django with less effort. In the third step, to set up the path variable, use the help from this site http://geekswithblogs.net/renso/archive/2009/10/21/how-to-set-the-windows-path-in-windows-7.aspx Also when you go to download pages, don't download the alpha or test versions, as no support is provided to them immediately. As of 10/02/2012, the stable Python versions are Python 2.7.2 and Django 1.3.1

Eff you Wazzub

I never thought of updating this blog any where in the near future, but after seeing a website, I have to write this post to stop a certain kind of madness from going viral. You must have already heard of “Wazzub” or here is a link to their blog post

http://heywazzub.blogspot.in/

In simple terms, the site is same as fb, but offers you a share in it’s revenue since you are content creators. It is going to be launched on April 9th, 2012 and by then it closes it’s doors, not to allow any new persons to join (A big joke). And the more, the people you refer and make them join before that date, the more you will earn ( A trick for making it viral).

You may ask

What is your problem ?

We get profit by doing the same things everyday that we do in fb.

I will answer it giving you an overview of the future.

1. The site launches

2. It says, we are feeling sorry that some people, who are your friends cannot join, hence we extend the joining date for one more week. Don’t bother we will extend it one more week. One more, it goes on and on

3. “The more you create content, the more you win”. In fb we are already observing a small number of useless posts, but we need to face a large number of useless posts. I will not wonder if after some months, every post is useless

4. People start sitting in homes, becoming more and more lazy. Filled with high levels of anxiety, calculating how much they can earn, not feeling the things around them living in their own virtual world.

5. And about getting money, it’s a big joke. There will be testimonials on the site giving details of how much they have earned in a month or how many thousands they are making on a day with fake id’s

The guy who created this site is too clever to quote that he is a Christian and everything is happening with God’s grace.

Well, I suppose you got it by now. If no, then read the book “Atlas Shrugged” or ask anyone who read the book to explain how the “Twentieth Century motor factory” collapsed due to the laziness of workers.

Taking leave again

Am a bit busy in my studies and also in job hunt. So, I couldn’t update this blog. Also, I am in the quest of writing a novel, which would take at-least 5-6 months to complete. So for the next 5-6 months, I will be engaged in writing the book and again, the blog will not be updated.

But, if I am free, I will surely try to update this one

 

Bye bye guys

Wikileaks

Every one, every where haunting Wiki leaks — I want to give a quick overview of how Wiki leaks has been staggering for the past few weeks.

It started with Julian Assange (Wiki leaks founder) announcement stating that they are going to release the war documents related to Iraq war.The next followed with America’s Secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s warning and then wiki leaks released those documents.I don’t know what is there in those documents nor did I try to explore, but I wonder why media is also like me.It went on haunting Julian Assange taking interviews from him, provoking him to give disputed statements.In one interview with CNN he even walked away, unable to bear the torture.And that video has been screened again and again with the tagline “Watch Julian Assange walking away from CNN’s interview in 5 minutes”.Then Julian had been accused of raping two women.The next followed Assange’s denial of accusation.Later on interpol issued arrest warrant and he is now in underground.

While this was happening on one side of the story after the release of documents, DDOS attacks, started on Wiki leaks website.DDOS attacks make the server so busy, that it cannot respond to user’s requests, due to traffic congestion.Quoting this as a reason, Amazon removed Wiki leaks from it’s website and then followed Every DNS, the main domain provider for wiki leaks.The site went down today because of this, but I can’t believe, the wiki leaks is still fighting.It shifted it’s domain to wikileaks.ch and continuing it’s fight for transparency.

Me – Cycle

Hall-2 (This is the hall in which I was staying)
Hall-7 (This is the hall, where my senior and his friend are staying and beside that hall, there is a cycle shop)

One month ago

My senior “Sri” gave me a cycle.It is not his, but one of his friends.I kept it in hall-2.I gave it to one of my friend who lost the key with out even using the cycle one time.Now Sri told me to take the cycle in any way to the cycle shop and change the lock with a new one.I forgot to do it.Sri too forgot it.

One day before End semester examinations

Sri called me and told me to bring the cycle back to his hostel at any cost.He told me that his friend is in a lot of tension and he himself is ready to repair the cycle.Sri told me to bring the cycle and keep it in hall-7.So I called my junior and we went to the cycle stand of hall-2 to take it back to hall-7.Since it’s one month, I couldn’t recognize the cycle.So I called Sri.
Me — “Hey Sri, give some info of cycle”
Sri — “Rey, it’s maroon color, citybike”

I cut the phone.

So I and my junior searched for a cycle that is maroon in colour and looks like city bike.Some how panting, we took the cycle finally to hall-7 and went to my senior’s room.I told him, the spot where the cycle is kept and handed money for the repair.After that I gave a small treat for my junior, for helping me to carry the cycle, all the way from hall-2 to hall-7

After two end sem exams

My senior called me.

Me — “What?”
Sri — “He could not find the cycle in the place you told me that you kept it.He keeps on nagging me telling “I could not write the exam well, because I couldn’t get on time in to the exam hall.If there is my cycle, this would not have happened.Will you give me my marks back”.Please ra, once come to hall-7 and locate the cycle”
Me — “But, tommorrow there is an exam, I am preparing for it”
Sri — “Please come ra, he keeps on nagging me”
Me — “Ok, incoming”
Sri — “Roger that”

I went to hall-7 and when I reached there, I went straight to the cycle stand and the cycle that I kept there, three days ago was still there.I called Sri from there, and he along with his naggy friend, came outside of hall-7 and reached me

Me — “This is your friend’s cycle, I told you the location, it is in the same place”

For the first time, that naggying friend talked with me

“It is not my cycle”

Me — “Sri, you told me, it’s marron color city bike type”
Sri — “Not city bike type, it’s city bike”

Google Instant

Well, let me give you a short description of this feature, which Google rolled out two months back, as far as I remember.It is just another feather cap that is added to Google search.

You type few words and google automatically gives you the search with the most relevant result, even before you complete typing and pressing enter.As you go on typing the letters, the search page changes dynamically, showing you the most relevant result.If you type “T”, automatically, it searches and gives results for “Twitter”.It is like a jet speed, it armours our search and gives us more efficient fight with time.Get a sneak peak of Google Instant here, click here

Cross country race

Ran the cross country race (Our institute Marathon) today.Woke up early in the morning with the alarm in my phone ringing.Done brushing and started from hall-2.I went infront of hall-7 from where the actual race is about to start.They gave numbers for us to wear while we were running.Mine was “81″.

On the mark, get, set, go.The race began.The thing is for long distance running we need to keep our mouth shut and take breath only through nose, but after running till hall-2, I realised that I had cold in one of my nostrils.So I opened my mouth and used it along with nose during the run.Many people were ahead of me, but I kept my nerve and ran slowly since this is not just 100M or 200M but it’s like that of 8KM.Many people got stopped after running some distance but I kept running and with in 100M distance ahead all the remaining were running.I didn’t over react and try to cross them, but kept running, following the arrow marks that were drawn on road to show us the path,

The arrows took me through the way, normally the autos would run to get to the NIT main gate if you normally start from hall-7.So, I ran and ran, panted heavily till I ended myself at the NIT main gate(not the institute main gate).And I stopped there and saw my pals crossing me and the people who were 100M ahead of me, left me many hundred metres away then.

I didn’t go back, but I kept walking through the whole route of Cross country race, going all the way till the 11th street and came back to the hall-3 in the end, where they collected our numbers and fed us with break fast.Two eggs, one banana and bread if you want.

Last thing, the Athletics captain who arranged the race sat beside me.I wanna ask him “Did you participate in the race?”
Later I thought it was not a good question to ask, since he would get hurt if he hadn’t participated being himself a great sprinter.So I rephrased my question and asked him
“Who came first ?”
He told me–”Me”

He organised the race, he took the responsibility of collecting the names of participants, he ran the race and stood first.F***

Forgot to tell his name “Sunil Oram”

Set a video as your wallpaper

Bored of seeing your photo albums scrolling as your window’s wallpaper through the new feature of windows-7.Ever thought of watching videos as your wall paper.You just need to have a windows operating system with a VLC player installed in it.

Open VLC media player, goto Tools—>Preferences and click on the video tab, there in the output section change the “default” mode to “DirectX video output”.Now restart the media player and under the in the tool bar-video tab now, you can see “Directx Wallpaper”, click on it and you have the video playing as your wall paper and you can continue with your busy shedule.

Voicebase

Hey guys you must already be knowing of this site, Voicebase.com, the site which lets you upload your voice and send it like a mail to others.Also there are millions of recordings available(may be thousands for now, sorry may be hundreds since the site started a few weeks ago), you can search among them for your favourites and listen to them, just like you do in you tube.

Most important thing of all, first one year subscription is free, and later on money, money and money, also there is some limit for storage for free users which I don’t know clearly.Also for now I tried to play some audio’s by searching them from the site, but couldn’t may be a plugin problem in my browser I think.

100

Yup, you guys heard me right, this is my 100th post, and so I want to discuss with you how I started blogging and how it all went thru.

I used to be very eager to learn about computers during my first year at college.Well now I had only 1% of it.There was also only one computer during the starting days of our college and that one was Bala’s.So naturally he became one of my best friend’s (well later best enemies and again best friends and again ignoring each other for some days and again friends).One day, I went to his room and he showed me a site, and told me, it’s a blog.I was amazed by the concept behind it.We are getting one domain for free (well with the company’s name of course) and along with back end, front end assistance too.

Me—”Want to start a blog, which one is best ?”
Bala–”Wordpress”

And me, the same night created a blog and had lots of ups and downs, thought of removing this blog completely, but something kept pulling me back, back, again and again and again.There are only two posts that are very special to me.

1.And folks, this is my first post of my entire blogging career,April 6, 2009. ohh, it has got three comments, Click here for it.
PS:In the comments section, try to guess who Rohit Reddy is, itz easy

2.And I love and hate the date that this was posted April 12,2009.I love this post because it had me depicting my best friend as hero and I hate this because I started giving him reverence from that day on, and still couldn’t come out of it completely.Click here for it.