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Chapter 189 Parcel Mail

Saturday morning, SAM Association Activity Room. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Latin School SAM quartet is testing the strength of the infrared signal emitted by the CDAD in the activity room.

"I was able to receive it, the signal was very strong! There are five bars of signal. Matthew, standing against the wall, was the first to report his test results.

Following the rules of radio signal strength, Lin Hong divided the infrared signal strength into five levels, which were represented by five small grids, five grids were the strongest, one grid was the weakest, if there was not even one grid, it was completely no signal and could not transmit data.

"The signal strength here is okay, the signal strength is four bars." Arthur was a little farther away than Matthew, to the far corner of the room.

"Four squares." Pissen's words were brief, and he was about as far away as Arthur.

Next, they started the synchronization program in the calculator separately.

This program is specially designed to communicate with CDAD, and when launched, it will automatically query the server for what is available, such as a list of the latest announcements and a list of software.

The functional testing of this software has been done a long time ago, having previously been run in an improved calculator and can be successfully run. Now that the database was transferred to the server, there were no surprises, Matthew and the others were able to establish a connection to the server very smoothly, and downloaded the game from it very quickly and installed it.

"Stone, you send an announcement to try." Matthew said to Lin Hong.

"Okay."

Lin Hong quickly wrote a sentence in the software, and then clicked publish.

"Alright."

After Matthew and the others synced, an announcement popped up on the calculator display in his hand, and it would disappear until the confirm button was pressed.

Next, they continued to test from other angles, and the results showed that the acceptance was also very good, and they were able to download all the information on the server.

"Great, everything works!" Matthew couldn't help but cheer. This time the debugging test went so smoothly that he was a little unaccustomed to it, before that, no matter which test had to fix a lot of various subtle bugs, he didn't expect this time to pass in one go.

After the debugging was completed, the CDAD equipment was optimized, and basically the upgrade of the SAM Association was almost the same.

The next thing is up to Matthew, if he wants to install this device on the top of the cafeteria, it is not allowed to be allowed casually, he must personally go to the principal's office and get the principal's signature.

Of course, they also have to assemble a PC themselves, which is not very well configured, as long as it can be connected to the Internet and can run synchronization software.

However, there is another problem, that is, the activity room is too far away from the canteen, it is not good to lead the network cable directly from the activity room, if possible, it is best to open another network, only need an ordinary telephone dial-up network, and do not need a fixed IP service.

"The day after tomorrow is April Fool's Day, we will try to complete all this work, and then surprise everyone!"

Matthew made the final mobilization.

He has now decided to go to the principal's office to find the principal, and if the principal is on vacation today, he will go to his house and talk to him personally.

Arthur Linhong and the others went to the electronics market to buy the right computer accessories and assemble a cheap computer that could meet their needs.

"That...... There's one thing I'd like to tell you. Lin Hong saw that Matthew was about to leave in a hurry, and immediately greeted.

"What's the matter?"

"It's the same thing I told you about communication software last time, I ......"

"Stone, don't bother with that, not many people use software like this now." Matthew directly interrupted, "Chat tools appeared very early, and now there are similar software on major platforms, and the software in this area has been developed very maturely, which is enough to meet everyone's needs." ”

Arthur didn't say anything, but it was clear that he wasn't very optimistic about it.

Lin Hong didn't be able to say what he wanted to say, originally he also wanted to release his cqcq together on April Fool's Day and give it to everyone for free, since they are not optimistic, then forget it.

Lin Hong pondered in his heart, it seemed that he was going to remove the software running on this server, after all, it seemed that now it seemed that this software he was doing in private was not very suitable to occupy the resources of the association.

Then, they split up to prepare for the final work.

Lin Hong, Arthur and Pissen went to the electronics market and finally purchased a batch of accessories, most of which were second-hand, but it didn't matter, as long as it was easy to use.

They went back to the activity room, assembled the computer, didn't even have a monitor, temporarily borrowed the server for the time being, installed the operating system, and then installed the server-side synchronization software into it.

When they successfully installed the software, Matthew also brought good news. Since it was the weekend, Mr. Brown, the principal of the school, had not really arrived at the school, but this did not discourage Matthew, and he drove directly to Mr. Brown's house.

It is unknown how he talked to Mr. Brown, who not only persuaded him to agree to install their latest product, CDAD, at the entrance to the cafeteria, but also to pull a cable from the school's LAN there to connect the device to the entire school's LAN network.

In this way, even the network problem is solved, and if you want to install other CDAD devices in other parts of the school in the future, you can also connect directly.

"Matthew, how the hell did you talk to Mr. Brown?" Arthur was genuinely curious.

"Actually, I didn't bother to say much, that old man had already heard about our SAM association, especially Stone, when he led our school team to win the game on the day of the Homecoming Prom, he was there to watch the game, he was full of praise for Stone, when I talked to him, he kept sighing, why didn't Stone join the school team and win glory for the school."

Speaking of this, Lin Hong was also a little helpless.

Since the last Homecoming Day ball game, a number of people have come to him for the same purpose, to get him to play on the team.

First Carter, then Walker, and then even the coach of the Bruins came on a special trip, and they all thought that it was a pity that Lin Hong didn't play and wasted his talent.

But Lin Hong is really not interested in taking this sport as his future career, it's okay to kick occasionally, if he puts all the events on it, it is too boring, this is not the life he wants.

When Matthew went to the principal's house, he brought an improved and enhanced calculator, on which he demonstrated several very useful functions for students, such as the class schedule, so that you don't have to worry about remembering the lessons incorrectly, and you can also arrange your study time and order according to this table. There is also the latest news of the school, through which you can get all the news about the school in a timely manner.

In addition, Matthew also said that he will continue to develop similar useful software, and maintain in-depth contact and cooperation with various clubs and student clubs of the school to create convenience for everyone's study and life. Finally, he also gave a forward-looking outlook on the next plans of the SAM Association.

So, Mr. Brown finally nodded under his attack.

At noon, the four of them hurried outside the school for a hurried meal, and then returned to get back to work.

In this way, I was busy until about four o'clock in the afternoon, and finally got everything done.

Because they also connected the server in the activity room to the school LAN, they could send data to the rudimentary computer in the cafeteria when necessary, so as to achieve a function similar to wireless broadcasting.

Next, they will also organize some commonly used software on BBS and then selectively publish it in the synchronization software.

However, Lin Hong will not participate in these things tomorrow, because he has something to do tomorrow and has to go to New York, so he asked for leave in advance, anyway, the next thing is very simple, and others can handle it.

When Lin Hong and Arthur returned home, it was already close to five o'clock in the afternoon.

"Stone, you have a parcel of mail today." Vina, who had already begun to prepare dinner, came out of the kitchen and said.

"Oh? It's mine? Lin Hong was slightly stunned.

"yes, from Finland, don't you know?"

"I remember, it was sent to me by my friend!"

Lin Hong was overjoyed when he heard this, and he remembered that Linus had mailed him a copy of the minix operating system two weeks ago, and he was so busy these days that he had forgotten about it. Also, he hadn't logged into his email for a long time, and he hadn't been in contact with Linus.

"What is this?"

Seeing Lin Hong's happy face as he unwrapped the package on the table in the hall, revealing two 1.44MB 3.5-inch floppy disks, Arthur couldn't help but ask curiously.

"This is an image file of the minix operating system." Lin Hong told the truth, "A friend of mine in Finland sent it from me. ”

“minix？” Arthur had obviously heard of this operating system, "It's just a teaching operating system, right?" The features are so simple that they are completely unusable and can only be used for learning. Are you going to learn to write an operating system? ”

"I'm going to look into this aspect, I'm more interested in the underlying stuff of the operating system."

Arthur was clearly not interested in it, and Mnix was too rudimentary in his eyes to be called an operating system at all, only a toy. Compared with other Apple Macintosh systems in use today, there is simply too much difference, one in the sky and one in the ground.

He doesn't plan to learn the underlying programming or principles of the operating system, but he is interested in web application software.

Lin Hong took the two floppy disks in his hands, as if holding a treasure in his hand, and returned to his room as quickly as possible.

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