July 19, 2011
Posted in Society at 06:53 by graham
The News International phone hacking scandal is the case of a British tabloid’s staff hacking into several thousand people’s voicemail, over a period of at least six years.
They listened to voicemail of the 7/7 terrorist attack victims, politicians, a murdered schoolgirl (including erasing some messages, leading the family to think she lived), the British Royal Family, various celebrities, and other journalists.
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July 7, 2011
Posted in Software at 06:01 by graham
Instructions on how to setup a development environment to work on Django core, for example to review proposed patches, and prepare your own.
pip and virtualenv
Make sure you have pip, virtualenv, and virtualenvwrapper installed. On Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install virtualenv
sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper
Edit your .bashrc and add this line ABOVE any mention of /etc/bash_completion
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
Close your terminal and re-open.
Django
Create a virtualenv for your Django development, and switch into it (your prompt should change):
mkvirtualenv --no-site-packages django-dev
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