The Goddess Shines on America

The human understanding of electricity is undoubtedly a long process. As early as 2500 years ago, the ancient Greeks discovered the phenomenon of frictional electrification, but the invention of alternating current still had to wait until the end of the nineteenth century before Edison and Nicholas- Tesla invented direct current and alternating current respectively.

　　 The Hong Kong Electric Light Company was established in this context. The date of establishment in 1889 made it one of the oldest electric power companies in the world. At the same time, looking at this ninety-nine-year history, the Hongkong Electric has always been among the best in the safety of power supply and has a reputation in the industry. This is evident from the fact that it was able to use computers for management as early as 1968.

　　 "We have a series of development plans."

　　 The rumbling of the motors kept roaring, but it was more salty from the sea breeze. The speedboat was heading towards Lamma Island, which was only a few kilometers away, where the HEC’s power plant was located. At this time, Mr. Wengerman was constantly introducing Alice, even if the sea breeze roared, he was indifferent.

"The expansion project underway at the Lamma Power Plant is a brand new project. After all, although the power plant in Ap Lei Chau used to be computerized, it was an old coal power generation system. This new project is to replace coal with natural gas. To achieve further emission reduction targets."

Facing the sea breeze, Mr. Wengerman had to shout: “This project covers a total area of ​​50 hectares. It is planned to be developed in three phases. The first phase includes three 250 MW coal-fired power generating units, which were completed in 1984. We are going to it now. In addition, the second phase includes three 350 MW coal-fired generating units, and one 55 MW and six 125 MW gas turbines. It is planned to be completed around 90. The third phase Including two 350 MW coal-fired units, they will surely be built before the millennium!"

"It's amazing." The speedboat is open, but Alice is sitting on it. She doesn't need to yell at all to make her voice resound in all directions: "In terms of thermal power stations, the pollution of natural gas is indeed much lower than that of coal. Your generator sets are Is it imported from Germany?"

"That's natural," Wengerman said with a smile: "Although I don't like West Germany very much, I must admit that their generator sets are really very advanced. Even several power plants in mainland China have been specially purchased in West Germany. A few, but the number is really pitiful..."

　　 Of course, Alice laughed secretly, not to mention the high cost added by trade barriers. How can the brain of my extremely smart Chinese person be controlled by others in key technologies?

　　 This topic was immediately forgotten by everyone, and the speedboat quickly docked at a pier on Lamma Island, just a few hundred meters straight to the power plant. Of course, I received the notice early that the director of the power plant and his main senior management were already waiting at the pier. When everyone got off the speedboat, the middle-aged man who was headed by the roof greeted him.

　　 As to who the director of such a power plant is, Alice is of course not interested in paying attention. This trip is just to visit for investment projects. Under their leadership, everyone quickly walked into the power plant and walked all the way to the main control room.

　　 "This is the information management system we currently use." When the factory director introduced, he was of course very proud and confident: "Its performance is very good, and the monitoring interval for the generator set has reached..."

　　 "Please let me." Alice didn't intend to listen to him, but simply patted the staff in front of the seat and said, "Let me use it."

　　 The director of the factory was a little panicked, and glanced back and forth between Mr. Wengerman and Alice: "This lady, the work of the power plant is non-stop, you are..."

The action is so fast. The director of Xie Ding didn't even finish her words. Alice was already operating the computer quickly with her fingers, unfolding a complex program tree diagram, water temperature and pressure, turbine rotation rate and natural gas consumption. As well as the power supply situation and voltage fluctuations per unit time, vital interfaces flashed to the front one after another.

　　 Seeing the girl's fast operating speed, the programmer on the side was stunned and couldn't help but stammered: "You, you, have you done this before?"

　　 The power plant executives who were onlookers also looked at each other, because Alice really didn't follow the procedure. In general visits, who doesn’t let the power plant employees introduce the details of the whole plant one by one? Many people see that the investor is just a little girl, and they are even ready to be asked a lot of white questions, but now?

"You are the framework of Unix." However, "after an instant for a long time," Alice said so: "For this kind of system, the stability of Unix is ​​indeed the most important. It can be powered on for several months. Not crashing is more important than anything else."

　　 Few people can understand the meaning of a crash, even if she is speaking in Cantonese, which is full of words, and Mr. Wengerman, who has also worked in Hong Kong for a long time, can certainly understand all her meaning across languages.

　　 "Miss Alice, maybe you can focus on the network infrastructure of this power plant. This should be the best thing Cisco can help?"

　　 "It's easy to say, I'm watching it." Alice has been busy indeed, but her movements are too fast. Those on the sidelines only feel dazzled, and she only needs to scan all the data interfaces that are worthy of their concentrated research to declare the end. So quickly, when the sub-interfaces that seemed to be related to the network connection popped up one after another, other people could barely follow her steps.

"Well, it's really easy." Then, after just a moment of scanning, Alice said, "Your network structure system is still at the level of the early 1980s... well, that's before the establishment of my Cisco. So, should I also be grateful that it is a newly built power plant. You have moved up with the times enough?"

　　 Such a remark, Wengerman can accept, because he fully knows who Alice is, but it does not mean that the executives of the power plant can accept it.

"What do you mean by this?" Sure enough, a man with the chief engineer on his badge couldn't help but said: "Of course it has evolved with the times! Our first phase of the power plant has just been completed in the past two years and is equipped with They are all the most advanced equipment, my child, the computer you are using now, but it's a new ibm company..."

　　 The excited chief engineer was stopped by the gaze from Alice with a smile, the same type of gaze as Wengerman.

"The computer is indeed very advanced, and the power plant is indeed newly built," Alice said with a smile: "Chief Engineer Wang, right? For the sake of the same surname as you and me, let me ask first, you have heard of my Cisco company. ?"

　　Don't talk about the chief engineer of the power plant, even if it is the plant manager, how much do you know about a new American company? When they received the notice from Mr. Wengerman, they only knew that a Chinese investor from the United States wanted to cooperate with Hongkong Electric, so they came here to visit. That is to say, Alice is really young, and Wengerman especially talked about the issue of age on the phone, but that was all.

　　 What is Cisco? Can that thing be eaten as a meal?

"It seems you really don't know." Alice smiled clearly: "My Cisco company was established in 1984. Yes, it was the same time as your first phase of the project. This is a company specializing in Internet hardware equipment. R&D company, and since we started this new industry, we have been in a leading position. So this is not, it just went public on the last day of the year, on the Nasdaq."

"This new power plant uses natural gas for thermal power generation and adopts computerized information control. This is very good. However, without a more complete network system to support it, your work efficiency will inevitably be much lower... Of course, maybe you think it’s fast now, but believe me, after experiencing the effects of high-level networking, you will immediately understand the difference."

　　 said, she looked at Li Zeju.

Yes, when Alice and Wengerman came together, Sophie and the big boss of Hongkong Electric, Li Zeju, of course must follow: "Then there is the optimization of the operating system. Through the browsing just now, I have a basic understanding. This system is now available. Brother Li, do you know what I would say about it?"

　　 This doubling of words once again made everyone at the power plant who did not know why they were stunned. First, the appearance of a teenage investor ~www.NovelMTL.com~ was enough to surprise everyone who was suddenly notified; the personal accompaniment of Li Zeju, a shareholder of the Hongkong Electric Corporation holding company and Yangtze River Infrastructure, is even more amazing; now , After the disclosure of a company, Cisco, the little girl who appeared suddenly wanted to express her opinion on the operating system again...

　　 What the hell?

　　 "I hope you can answer." Furthermore, Li Zeju's answer made the group of soy sauce parties who don't even bother to remember their names by Alice, their mouths grew in surprise.

"Structural redundancy is definite." Alice said: "I haven't read the code yet, it's definitely not my refinement. From the operating system interface alone, as we all know, the unix system is a multi-user, multi-tasking Time-sharing operating system..."

　　 When hearing this sentence, the computer operators in the main control room were silently and completely absorbed.

"But the tree diagram of the current system is obviously... The image store says that there are too many branches, and some places can be chopped off. Maybe you are very used to the current program operation steps, but still that sentence, trust me, chop it down It will be faster after the fork."

　　 After a simple introduction, there was a long silence. As the power plant personnel who accompanied him, there was no interruption at all. Even Wengerman wisely chose to be silent, and left the decision to Li Zeju, who was the superior.

"It seems that you want us to change to a new system." After a while, he smiled: "But this is not my right to decide, Alice, are you interested in meeting my father?" (to be continued .)