This weekend is a very memorable weekend. A four-day continuous heavy snow has caused many inconveniences to the people around Portland. Power cuts, cars buried in snow, or skidded at intersections. Fortunately, due to the impact of Covid-19, there are not too many people who want to go out. However, this Saturday is the Chinese New Year, so my friends and I decided to drive to Portland for dinner. Chinese New Year is a very important festival to Chinese people, so even if we are both surrounded by endless tasks, we still want to go out and have a delicious meal. As a person from southern China, such heavy snow is unusual and seldom seen for me. The road surface marking is completely covered by snow, and the drivers don’t know how to maintain a safe distance from each other. Everyone can only drive slowly. On both sides of the highway, there are many vehicles that flipped out because of slipping and vehicles that broke down in heavy snow. When we were close to the restaurant, we arrived at a snow-covered intersection. Two cars stuck at this intersection and the cars could not move forward because of the snow. My friends and I immediately went to help them push the cart together, and finally, they left this intersection successfully. However, our car also is stuck at the intersection, but what makes people happy is that, just like we helped others, other people also helped us push the car out of this intersection. When we got back to the car, my ears and hands were numb. For a child who grew up in a city that has never snowed, this is really an interesting experience.
Last week I finally successfully deployed cfd3_input_generator.py to server.py. And Zhaoxiang re-modified the input form again so that the input form of the predict_input page can be better collected the data for the geometry preview generator to generate a better preview. But I still need to modularize cfd3_input_generator just in case I need to deploy that again in subsequent tasks.
For some personal reasons, I started to try to use Linux-like systems more proficiently. Since ubuntu has a fairly complete UI, I decided to choose it as my practicing tool for advanced technology. Since my laptop on the ubuntu system did not work well for some reason, I decided to use VMware to create a virtual machine to set up my Ubuntu system.
VMware Set Up Guide： https://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_newguest_setup_simple_steps.html
Ubuntu Practice：https://beginlinux.com/server_training/8-ubuntuadmin/6-ubmanual
