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Tutorial 2: Setting local Django devlopment environment on linux mint

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I was introduced to Djnago some time ago, it was on amazon accessed using git. I did not set any local environment yet To make any change I would first edit it on my system then push to assembla git repo and then pull it on server and restart and if I made any silly mistake redo the same thing. So after 2-3 changes I got sick of it. There was a better solution that was hard to achieve in windows. So without wasting time I will list the steps and errors 1. Install any linux distro  (the one with which you are comfortable and have good software repo system), I am using mint which is ubuntu derivative 2. SOFTWARES from ubuntu repo sudo apt-get install python-django sudo apt-get install mysql-server sudo apt-get install mysql-python sudo apt-get install python-pip optional- sudo apt-get install python-dev sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin 3. pipy apps  If you have already been working on remote server you may have install some local applications like django-re...

Thought ( मनन ) - 5: (Technical) An OS can't make person Intelligent or dumb

Yesterday I was doing something on Ubuntu (which was installed on windows 8 via Virtual Box ), A Ubuntu user came and commented 1. ooh! You are using an open source OS on windows OS His expressions were like - The greatest sin is using an open source OS on windows OS. I was like - Holy Shit! What have I done? Why did I choose this course? 2. Is it virus free? 3. The wi-fi is not connecting because you are using ubuntu on windows Some people have requirement which can be fulfilled by one OS. Some people want to try all the things available. Some people believe that one OS is not enough even if it's free. I do web design , graphics design, video editing, animation design and little bit desktop programming. Now I took this course which teaches about shell scripting and python programming . So I installed Ubuntu on Virtual Box to skip the pain of restarting every time you want to use some software of different OS. Now coming to virus, I know Ubuntu doesn't have viru...