Although Zhou Zhi didn't spend much time in school this semester, he was also involved in school affairs.
The main reason is that Clover's satellite network and the campus network are also interconnected.
As a direct user of network software, Zhou Zhi has become an in-depth user of network tool software in the past six months. Since his company has R&D capabilities, he boldly puts forward demands.
A lot of proposals have been put forward for real-time communication, network file sharing and transmission, chat tool improvements, various fancy functions, forum structure, service content, network yellow pages query, browser search engine functions, etc. Improvement suggestions.
The current use of the Internet has not been popularized, but the concept of Internet community has become popular on campus networks.
As a "small society", the university campus is actually the best touchstone for various Internet software.
Shu University’s Four-leaf Clover Forum started very early, and now its influence is comparable to that of Shuimu Tsinghua University, Under the Banyan Tree, Tianya Community, etc.
The popular real-time communication software Koukou on the campus of Shu University has become an indispensable novelty for college students. Several computer game rooms around the school are doing brisk business, and the most popular one is in Hongxing. The second floor of the film and television city.
The former video game arcade was transformed into a computer game arcade by Zhao Xing, with computer desk, leather seats, over-ear headphones, Pentium computer, 21-inch large screen, air conditioner, lunch box, Fat Boy Happy water.
The computer contains more than twenty popular games. Yes, they are all pirated, including the operating system.
In addition, there are several emulators developed by Hu Tianyu himself, which can simulate Famicom, Sega and other game consoles on the computer, and play old games such as "Contra" and "Super Mario".
The most attractive thing about the Red Star Computer Game Room is that its server can be directly connected to the campus network, and each computer is also connected to the campus network. Therefore, all information on the campus network can be accessed here, which is suitable for campus networks. All software can be used here.
And big bosses visit here from time to time. Many of them log in remotely and have network code names. They often don’t see the end, listen to everyone’s opinions and suggestions, and then quickly make improvements.
So everyone is happy to come here. This is not only the login interface for the virtual world, but also a good place for fans to communicate offline.
Battle games like "DOOM" can even support sixteen people to fight online at the same time. Zhao Xing also held two "DOOM" battle competitions, allowing experts from all walks of life to gather here to communicate.
The Red Star Computer Game Room has become famous not only in Shu University, but also in the entire Shu capital university circle.
Zhou Zhi is happy to see the results. These are actually preparations before the Internet is opened. The more problems discovered now and the more problems solved, the more opportunities they will have in the competition in the future.
Just the "requirements" he put forward often caused the technical team to collapse.
For example, the screen sharing function of an online video conference allows all participants to synchronize their computer screens with the speaker's computer screen while listening to the lecturer's lecture.
This function is very practical and will be a basic function in later generations, but it is not very simple to implement now.
The current network speed is extremely slow, and some functions are not as easy to implement as in later generations. For example, this function is still available. Later generations can directly transmit screen images synchronously, but it is not possible now. Nowadays, the only way to achieve this function is to first transfer the files required for the meeting to each participating computer, and then send the speaker's operating instructions to each participating computer through the video conferencing software to operate and control the meeting files on each computer. .
But this brings up another problem - using commands to remotely control files on other people's computers. Does this sound familiar?
Yes, some computer viruses attack in this way.
Therefore, there is another problem that needs to be solved - the problem of the system authorization system and the problem of system security.
From a layman's perspective, isn't this just a small function? However, in the eyes of experts, it is far from that simple. This has directly involved changing the underlying security framework of the system.
But Zhou Zhi doesn’t care about this. His current identity is Party A’s father. He just puts forward demands and sees to their realization, and resolutely refuses to listen to Party B’s explanations about the impossibility of realization.
“I don’t believe it can’t be realized.” This sentence has become Zhou Zhi’s mantra now.
He now has the confidence to say this. In the past, Clover Company also pursued INTEL's USB interface protocol, but Zhou Zhi finally decided to develop a separate TYPE-C interface. Countless technicians, including Mai Mingdong, Thinking it was too difficult, Zhou Zhi said this at that time.
I don’t believe it can’t be achieved.
In the end, it was indeed realized. The convenience of blind plugging regardless of front and back is indeed a lot more convenient, but the cost of the related signal generation and analysis module is much higher than that of the one-way transmission USB protocol.
However, this price difference was easily resolved by Zhou Zhi's use of domestic components and setting up factories in China. This made TYPE-C the mainstream external interface in this time and space, directly eliminating the USB idea.
This kind of "eating the whole eel" from the agreement to the product has brought exaggerated profits to Clover Company.
Tony Huang, who became Clover's overseas legal agent, even issued a serious warning to Zhou Zhi. Clover's overseas authorization and factory setting up of TYPE-C interface intellectual property must be completed as soon as possible to avoid monopoly litigation. risk.
Zhou Zhi was shocked when he heard that a small TYPE-C interface would lead to such a lawsuit?
Tony Huang rolled his eyes at Zhou Zhi over the phone. You have no idea how much profit this thing has brought you around the world? Although this thing is small, it is always placed in a bright place for people to see.
All current computer peripherals, or digital devices that can be connected to computers, if they don’t have a TYPE-C, can they be said to be new models?
I don’t even want to mention the flash drive you launched that combines a memory chip with a TYPE-C interface. You must also hurry up and get the overseas licensing and factory setting up of that thing!
If a lawsuit is really going to be filed, it will definitely be impossible to play online, but there has never been such an extreme situation so far. Therefore, in the past six months, Zhou Zhi found that although there are still various restrictions on remote working, in With the support of Clover supporting software, it is completely achievable.
Even the speed of the satellite line is currently faster than the campus network to access the external network. In other words, he and Li Laosan in Fog City, Lin Wanqiu in Hong Kong Island, or Tony Huang in the Big Apple The meeting was actually smoother than the meeting with the three little ones from Shudu.
This is also the tragedy of first-generation users. (End of this chapter)