As early as 2,500 years ago, the ancient Greeks discovered the phenomenon of triboelectric electricity, but the invention of alternating current was not until the end of the nineteenth century, when Edison and Nikola Tesla invented direct current and alternating current respectively. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

It was against this backdrop that the Hong Kong Electric Company was founded, making it one of the oldest electric power companies in the world with its founding date of 1889. At the same time, throughout its 99-year history, HK Electric has always been one of the best in the industry for its safety in power supply. This can be seen from the fact that it was able to use computers as early as 1968 for management.

"We have a range of development plans. ”

The rumbling of motors kept roaring, but more of it was the salty smell of the sea breeze, and the speedboat was heading for Lamma Island, just a few kilometres away, where HK Electric's power plant was located. At this time, Mr. Wengerman was constantly introducing Alice, even if the sea breeze was howling.

"The expansion project being carried out at the Lamma Power Station is a completely new project, after all, the power plant in Ap Lei Chau in the past is an old coal-fired power generation system, although it has been computerized. This new project aims to replace coal with natural gas and achieve further emission reduction targets. ”

Faced with the sea breeze, Mr. Wengerman had to shout: "This project covers a total of 50 hectares and is planned to be developed in three phases, the first phase includes three 250 megawatt coal-fired generating units, which was completed in 1984 and is where we are now." In addition, the second phase includes three 350 MW coal-fired generating units, and one 55 MW and six 125 MW gas turbines, which are scheduled to be completed around 90, and the third phase includes two 350 MW coal-fired units, both of which will be completed before the millennium!"

"Remarkable. The speedboat is open-topped, but Alice sits on it, and she doesn't need to shout to make her voice sound in all directions: "In terms of thermal power stations, natural gas is indeed much less polluting than coal, are your generator sets imported from Germany?"

"That's natural," Wengermann laughed, "and as much as I don't like West Germany, I have to admit that their generator sets are really advanced. Even several power plants in Chinese mainland have purchased a few in West Germany, but the number is pitiful......"

That's of course, Alice smiled secretly, not to mention the high cost of adding trade barriers, just my extremely smart Chinese brain, how can there be a reason to be controlled by others in key technologies?

The topic was immediately put on the back burner, and the speedboat soon docked at a pier on Lamma Island, just a few hundred metres straight to the power plant. Of course, I received an early notice that the director of the power plant and its main senior management were already waiting at the dock, and when everyone stepped off the speedboat, the middle-aged man who led the way immediately greeted them.

Of course, Alice is not interested in paying attention to who the director of such a power plant is, and this trip is just a visit for investment projects. Led by them, the group soon walked into the power plant and made their way to the main control room.

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

"Please give way. 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 plant was a little flustered, and glanced back and forth between Mr. Wingerman and Alice: "This young lady, the work of the power plant is non-stop, you ...... like this"

The action is so fast, the director of Xie Ding didn't even finish speaking, Alice was already running the computer with her fingers quickly, unfolding a complex program tree diagram, water temperature and pressure, turbine rotation rate and natural gas consumption, as well as power supply and voltage fluctuations per unit time, and a crucial interface flashed in front of her again and again.

Looking at the girl's fast operation speed, the programmer on the side was immediately stunned, and couldn't help but stammer: "You, you, have you done this before?"

The onlookers also looked at each other, because Alice was too out of order. Many people see that the investor is just a little girl, and they are even ready to be asked a bunch of questions.

"You're a UNIX framework. However, after "a long time of tossing and turning in an instant", Alice said: "For this kind of system, the stability of UNIX is indeed the most important, and it is more important than anything else that it will not crash for several months in a row." ”

Few people can understand what death means, even if she speaks Cantonese, and Mr. Wengerman, who has worked in Hong Kong for a long time, can certainly understand all her meanings across languages.

"Miss Alice, maybe you can focus on the network infrastructure of the power plant, which should be the best help for Cisco, right?"

"That's a good thing to say, I'm looking at it. "Alice has indeed been busy, but she's just too fast. The onlookers only felt dazzled, and all kinds of data interfaces worthy of their concentration and research, she only needed a slight sweep to declare it over. So soon, when the sub-interfaces that seemed to be related to the network connection popped up one after another, the others could only barely follow her steps.

"Well, it's really simple. Then, after just a few moments of scanning, Alice said, "Your network structure is still at the level of the early eighties...... Well, that's before my Cisco was founded. So, should I also be thankful that it's a new power plant, that you're up to date enough?"

Wengerman could accept such a statement, because he knew exactly who Alice was, but it did not mean that the executives of the power plant could accept it.

"What do you mean by that?" Sure enough, a man with a badge marked as the chief engineer couldn't help but say: "Of course it's keeping pace with the times! Our first phase of the power plant has just been built in the past two years, and it is equipped with the most advanced equipment, and the computer you are using now is a new ...... from IBM."

The agitated Chief Engineer was stopped by Alice's smiling gaze, 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, for the sake of you and me with the same surname, let me ask first, have you heard of my Cisco?"

Not to mention the chief engineer of the power plant, even if it is the director of the plant, how much does he know about an American start-up company? When they received Mr. Wengerman's notice, they only knew that a Chinese-American investor from the United States was going to cooperate with HK Electric, so they came to visit. That is, Alice is really young, and Wengerman said about her age on the phone, but that's all.

What is Cisco? Can it be eaten as a meal?

"I don't think you know. Alice smiled and said, "My Cisco company was founded in '84, yes, at the same time as your first phase of the project. It's a company that specializes in the research and development of Internet hardware equipment, and we've been at the forefront of this new industry ever since. So no, it just went public on the last day of the year, on the NASDAQ. ”

"The new power plant uses natural gas as the thermal power source and uses computer information control, which is very good. However, without a better network system to support it, it will inevitably make your work efficiency much lower...... Of course, you may think it's fast now, but trust me, once you've experienced what hyper-networking looks like, you'll immediately understand the difference. ”

As she spoke, she looked at Li Zeju.

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

This doubling of words once again made everyone in the unknown power plant stunned. The appearance of a young investor was enough to surprise everyone who suddenly received the notice; Li Zeju, a shareholder of Cheung Kong Infrastructure, a holding company of HK Electric, personally accompanied him, was even more astonishing......

What the heck?

"I hope you answer. Furthermore, Li Zeju's answer made the group of soy sauce parties who didn't even bother to be remembered by Alice by their names grew up in surprise.

"Structural redundancy is a certainty. Alice said, "I haven't read the code yet, and I definitely haven't refined it." In terms of the interface of the operating system alone, it is well known that Unix is a multi-user, multi-task time-sharing operating system......"

When they heard this, the computer operators in the entire main control room were silently engrossed.

"But the current treemap of the system is clearly ...... The image shop said that there were too many branches, and some places could be cut down. Maybe you're used to the current program running steps, but again, trust me, it's faster to cut off the fork. ”

A simple self-introduction was followed by a long silence. As the accompanying power plant personnel, there was no interference at all, even Wengerman wisely chose to remain silent, and handed over the decision to Li Zeju, who was the master.

"Looks like you'd like us to change to a new system," he smiled after a moment, "but that's not my right to decide, Alice, would you be interested in meeting my father?" )