Disk Crash !

Everything was up and running fine until last Tuesday when my Laptop Suddenly froze while i was working on some C# application in Visual Studio . I waited for about 4-5 minutes for system to become responsive again as I couldn't power it down as i had unsaved work in background ..Since it was around 3:00 AM in midnight so i thought that this might due to background windows 10 update being installed automatically (default timings are between 3-4 AM in most of Windows Devices)
After waiting for a little longer the system did became responsive again but the performance was so sluggish that i had to call it a day and shutdown the system  .

The Next Day when I booted up the PC the Thinkpad Diagnostic gave a beep during the error and when I ran the Diagnostics i showed that the S.M.A.R.T status had Failed ...WHAT ..it had been only two years since i got that HDD and my Disk is Failing now ..Back in Windows when i Ran Crystal Disk Info I got this result

Seeing that my Drive had got some bad sectors ...I immediately backed up all my drive and Data ..and created an Windows Image in case the drive fails completely (took about 8 Hours to complete the process ) and did some search online ..turns out sooner or later i have to get my Drive replaced in case the Bad Sector Count Increases ..(Will Upgrade to SSD :D ) but seeing the Cost of SSD I'm holding back the replace and taking the chance to run the Drive until the Bad Sector count reaches 2-3 or the system crash/freeze become intolerable ...So lets see how long the drive will work properly .

PS : Upgrading to SSD will be literally  like driving a Car on Nitro All the time ..pretty excited about ..if the upgrade happens 

Using AWS For First Time

The past week was all filled with all pages ..and pages of assignment from college as our Mid Semester Exams are nearing so all our subject teachers gave us assignment altogether to be submitted by week end  .As soon as i finished of with the college work the first thing I had on my todoist  to complete was getting started with Amazon Web Service , I have been been using Microsoft Azure for a while for website hosting and online database for   my project but always wanted to try out using AWS being one  of the biggest Cloud  Provider .

As novice at AWS I planned to start on by simply hosting a simple static web page online, while and Googling about it I came across this Tutorial video and found it perfect to start with ..

After Just one View of the tutorial I was up and running my static website in Amazon S3  with me setting manual permission of file settings rather than using the script .

Having tried out Simple website Hosting On Both Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Service ..I think that for First time Users Azure is more easier and fun  to use than AWS as when I used it, 

I managed to setup my website without any  need for a video tutorial .

Compering on the Interface of Both AWS and Azure , Azure is more colorfully and Rich in interface with its Blade Style GUI  which comes on the cost of bit heavy webpage . AWS on the other hand has a Classic old GUI .which you generally find at other Cloud software's and hosting solution but is fast to load in case if you have a slow Bandwidth or an old out-dated browser .

Will be using out Both Azure an  AWS in upcoming both for same purpose to check out which helps me better  .

Day 1: Starting Python

As per my Schedule with my friend the target we set for day one for starting of with python was that we would complete 10% of the course percentage at the Code Academy , since the code academy only has instructions about the  code and not about the compiler setup and installation i  turned to on of my favorite youtubers for instructions and found this Getting started with python video more than sufficient of what i needed to begin with

For Downloading the Python I headed to  :https://www.python.org/downloads/

[Do note that python 2 and 3 have some small sytnax changes]

And for other reference and follow up material I headed to my all time favourite tutorialspoint and geeks for geeks to answer my doubts 

So far I found Python really cool and fun  to code and the syntax is really programmers friendly

  

Time to Gear Up

It has been a while I while i have been planning to learn a  new language  Like python and Java ,  being already familiar and comfortable to code in C++ , C#  and using Qt framework for c++ and Visual Studio and Xamrin for C#  . I thought of Learning Java as it was quite popular among my peers as almost majority of them had learnt Java in the summer break and were now working on android app development using it , so my first thought was to learn java and switch to android studio since Xamrin was giving me a hard time due to some error in the libraries which i messed up myself while making in it .

So when the college started and I sat down to give a start to java i found it very much similar to c# in terms of syntax and implementation but was lot boring than c#  as being a fan of C and it its children languages i just didn't like java from the very beginning  .

With many discussions on which language to start ahead which could help me  in scripting in cloud and in productivity my friend Sheryl suggested to start with python .  I myself had also heard about it being quite popular and powerful in the market and it being replacing c++ in K12 education  .So In the coming week ...ie from today I will be Starting with Python (fresh Start) , and Cloud  ( Azure and Amazon )  along with continuing  my work on Xamrin  side by side  (to make my Kick-ass App ideas a reality in android ) and Qt for Application Development for our Semester project with my friend Soham .

Will be blogging about my progress so that i can measure my output and see where i can fine tune my work efficiency .

So Eyes all set on the target ....and 1..2...3...GO