Chapter 11 ten

The work of the housing reform office soon fell into a protracted battle. During the development of the program, various problems of unclear responsibilities and uncalculated workload occurred. Three people, Hou Ge, Kang Cheng and A-Gump, were involved in this unresolved program modification. war.But they haven't got a penny from Comrade Hao, they can only patiently accept all reasonable and unreasonable demands. During the program development process, because the bank interest rate was adjusted twice within a few months, the standard housing price and cost price in Beijing were also adjusted again and again, and there were many major changes to the program calculation formula.Comrade Hao is always ambiguous on how to calculate the price and how to deal with system changes and requirements.So many times, Brother Hou, who can endure hardship the most, also started to slow down. Brother Hou’s logic is that there should be a warm-up period before he is ready to work. Wait for a while. Maybe Comrade Hao will change in the evening, so he can’t start work in a hurry. Do useless work.Everyone listens to Brother Hou on the progress of the program.

Later, A-Gump said at a work summary meeting: "This is a common phenomenon between Chinese programmers and users. Users will never be able to provide the final complete system requirements, and programmers will always waste time in program adjustments. The lag period can range from a year to a few years, and the time cost cannot be calculated, and a programmer has to be hired to help them maintain the system." In order to get out as soon as possible, A-Gump stepped up his efforts to collect money from Comrade Hao. strength. The machines transferred from each branch factory are almost obsolete, and they often run into trouble. Three people are on duty in turn to maintain the hardware of the machines. Changing graphics cards, formatting hard drives, and reversing data are frequent tasks.The most troublesome thing is that the Housing Reform Office only has the right to collect money from the tenants, but not to spend money. Adding a hard drive requires three batches and five reviews.

As the amount of data increases, daily data backup becomes more and more difficult. The database of each machine is larger than the capacity of a floppy disk. Kang Cheng began to use the compression method for backup, and finally the compressed backup could not completely back up a database.This takes quite a long time to back up data every day.Brother Hou took a surgical operation on the database at this time. He programmed a program to divide the large database into several small databases for backup.Kang Cheng sighed: It is very difficult to be a programmer in China, and more experience is often spent outside of the program.

Due to the implementation of three shifts, there will be an hour break at midnight. Many operators have brought the game to the machine. minute.Can't wait, Kang Cheng and Hou Ge started to fight against the virus in the 30-square-meter computer room.Viruses often keep replicating in the memory until the memory is exhausted and the machine crashes.More powerful viruses will completely destroy the data in the boot area of ​​the hard disk, making the machine unable to start.They had to start with a floppy disk, and then copy the boot sector data of the same model of hard disk to the hard disk infected by the virus to make it run again.In order to crack down on the spread of the virus, Kang Cheng specially drafted an announcement on strict prevention of the introduction of the virus. The general idea is that everyone should focus on work and do not bring their own floppy disks to the computer. The virus has affected everyone's work and thus affected everyone's interests.Although we have made great efforts, virus removal is not a matter of intelligence, but a matter of mutual understanding. We have no intention of playing virus and anti-virus intellectual games with you.

The announcement had little effect.In the end, Brother Hou came up with a trick, to the effect that blocking is worse than sparse. It may be very difficult not to allow everyone to play games. The compromise method is to install genuine games on each machine.As a result, the game in the computer room was unified into DUNE. Although lesbians didn’t like to play this kind of game, they had to play simple Hearts, but everyone understood the good intentions of Kang Cheng and others, and the difficulty of the virus was finally brought under control. There are as many new problems as there are cockroaches hiding in a cupboard. Uncover one problem and there will be a nest of problems hidden underneath.The machines are not connected to the Internet, and the database on each machine has reached more than 2 megabytes. It is difficult to operate such a large database with 4 megabytes of memory. There is no change to the arrow, and the hard disk of the machine has been indulging in the flashing red light.

Brother Hou made an assessment of the performance of the entire computer in time, and made a report to Comrade Hao. He believed that the system resources of each machine had been fully utilized, but the current database could not be operated, and networking was imperative, otherwise the entire work would fail. Efficiency will be slower than manual era.Moreover, the current backup method is very risky, and once the database is lost, there is no way to recover it.The server on the network adopts dual hard disks or dual-computer backup, centralizes the data on the server, puts the application on the microcomputer, and adopts the CLIENT/SERVER architecture, which can greatly improve work efficiency and system security.

The network design report was completed by Hou Ge and Kang Cheng. In order to calculate the cost of the entire system, they bought professional newspapers and studied the best investment plan from the quotation page. This was Comrade Hao’s worry.A-Gump and Comrade Hao negotiated the system fee, because the network construction was not written into the contract at the beginning.Comrade Hao readily agreed to A-Gump's request and added 20,000 yuan to the project funds as the cost of network construction and system transplantation. But A-Gump and the others did not expect that their jobs were being secretly contested by a group of guerrilla programmers.

There are many procedural guerrillas in China. Like Forrest Gump, there are two or three people, but they have not established a company, and they are likely to work in a state agency or state-owned enterprise. The standard attire is to carry a large canvas bag full of tools. Software, DOS6.2 and screwdrivers, a good machine can be broken, and you can only listen to their words, and a bad machine can be fixed, so good that you can't believe it is the original machine.Where they used to talk mostly about games, now they often talk about new development tools.They often accept the MIS of enterprises and institutions, the asking price is low, and the system is turned-key.At present, they are using DELPHI2.0 with ease, and they are also familiar with VB5.0. The important thing is that they can use SYBASE, ORACLE, and use POWERBUILDER as a development tool.They will mix the most primitive assembly and advanced VC programming, and the programs written are extremely concise and efficient, and the programs they write can only be understood by themselves.Obviously, these programmers have mastered weapons that the regular army has not.They are a group of newcomers to software. Their weapons are obviously more advanced and avant-garde than Kang Cheng's FOXPRO. Their ultimate goal is to start a company on the street in the future and compile software that is more powerful than Microsoft.This time, Kang Cheng and others encountered procedural guerrillas, which made the already complicated problem even more complicated.

The project dispute occurred with the participation of the gang of program guerrillas.Comrade Hao made a summary evaluation of the work of A-Gump and others for half a year: the whole system is far from the needs of the Housing Reform Office.The large-scale database system of the Housing Reform Office has not been established, and unified and fast query cannot be implemented. The system backup is manually operated, and a large amount of garbage data appears in the database. Frequently, there will be situations where the search for Zhang San pops up for Li Si.After networking, no large-scale database is used, which will cause obstacles to the development of housing reform work in the future... In the evaluation, Comrade Hao believes that the work is only half done, the whole program is very irregular, the system is also very unstable, and it needs to be completely redesigned.. ...During the project, the Housing Reform Office invited others to develop new system tasks, which did not violate the agreement signed by A-Gump and the Housing Reform Office...According to the actual work progress, only half of the project could be given to Yongtai Company The gold is 100,000 RMB, and must be responsible for the complete handover of the project and the maintenance of the later problems...A housing reform project that took Yongtai Company half a year made the three people lose confidence in the MIS system.The small company, low cost and irregular operation made them suffer a lot. In the past six months, the three of them worked so many overtimes and stayed up so many nights, in exchange for being kicked away by Comrade Hao.Especially the whole project hit Brother Hou very hard. The level of those program guerrillas is not above Brother Hou, but Brother Hou has almost lost his advantage in the face of new technical directions.In Hou Ge's mind, the language used for programming is not important, but when encountering a project owner like this, Hou Ge can't convince others.Brother Hou is better at skirmishing. If he develops a software by himself, he is a hero. Once he is caught in this kind of MIS construction that does not test a person's programming level, his energy will be consumed by the project owner. Changing system requirements.Your technology is often not an advantage in front of project owners who don't know much about technology. The project owner needs his results and often changes his original intention midway. Some of them are confused and don't even know what the result is.This incident prompted Hou Ge to make up his mind to become a software self-employed, compile general-purpose software, instead of doing MIS, dealing with project owners who have no ideas, and wasting enthusiasm.Brother Hou's goal is not to make a lot of money, but to satisfy his own pleasure with his software. The value of life is that many copies of his software can be circulated among users, not how much money he makes.This project made Hou Ge understand the value of life better.

A few years later, we saw a word processing software that competed with Microsoft in the market. The hero accompanying this software was Brother Hou, but we no longer called him Brother Hou, but honored him as a national hero, because only he could compete with Microsoft. Microsoft contest, and Bill.Gates vie for supremacy.In the face of different rules of the game, he has the power of tragedy. Regardless of success or failure, he is a force that shakes people's hearts. Kang Cheng gradually lost confidence in his entrepreneurship, and the gap between his understanding of entrepreneurship and reality was even greater.He joked that he relied on technology to beg for food. After a project, he suffered everything from physical strength to mental strength. In the end, it was very difficult to ask for money from the project owner, making the whole process seem to be the last goal. :money.The difficulty of the result makes the previous actions meaningless.

This project brought a small sum of cash to Yongtai Company, and at the same time brought the fate of disbanding.Kang Cheng and Hou Ge took a sum of money and left the company one after another, leaving A-Gump alone, but he didn't want to write off the company, and decided to recruit troops to revive it. Brother Hou returned to his toilet studio and began to write down one of his great dreams, not using fancy language, but line by line of code. Kang Sung almost reached the breaking point, and he began to lose power for the future.On a boring afternoon, he took a small bus bound for Fangshan, a suburban county in Beijing. His clothes are disheveled, his eyes are slightly open, and he is holding a "Beijing Youth Daily" in his hand. There is a whole page in the newspaper about "bungee jumping"?? An extreme sport popular in Europe and the United States to China, the athletes are ordinary people, the heart Just be healthy.The method is to tie the two legs with a rubber band, dive down from a high platform, make a free fall at first, and then bounce up and down several times under Hooke's law of elasticity, and finally, it is like a fish tied on a fishing line. The fish were unhooked from the hook and transported to the shore. When Kang Cheng arrived at Juma River in Fangshan, it was already 10 noon.The scorching sun sent a cool breeze from the upper reaches of the clear Juma River.The high bungee jumping platform is like a giant arm stabbing wildly into the sky. Looking up from the opposite river beach, it is a huge black shadow. Not long after, the cable car transporting people to the bungee jumping platform began to operate, and the crowd snaked for a long distance like a python.The job of a bungee jumping instructor is to push people off a 50-meter cliff. Every 10 minutes, a person falls off the bungee jumping platform.Against the backdrop of the huge cliffs, people are like tiny rags, trembling back and forth on a thin white thread, quite like a giant beast fishing on the cliffs for bait. When everyone falls, there will be a huge sound wave around, and the screams of the beautiful girls make the fall of the young man tied to the end of the rope more glorious, and they will hook their heads upside down like earthworms hanging upside down to avoid trouble Dihao yelled twice, which showed that they were conscious, super courageous, and focused on styling. Everyone who jumps has a group of spectators cheering them on.If there is no applause from the audience, the whole process of bungee jumping will appear abrupt and a bit tragic. Jumping down in front of Kang Cheng was an obese middle-aged woman. She was a hero who lacked an audience. She was dressed in a brown business attire. Her expression was calm and somewhat depressed. Every movement of her was very calm and sad. With a big heart and a dead heart, there is no fear of heights.After the coach tied a bungee cord to her leg, she took the initiative to walk up to the ledge that protruded from the platform.The performance of ordinary tourists is like this: when they buy tickets and go to the platform, they are full of ambition, with a look of eagerness, and throw kisses to the cheering audience; when the coach tied the rope for him, his expression becomes solemn, His eyes seem to be looking at a small opening in the center of the platform for the warriors to look into the abyss; when the coach tells him to walk to the springboard, he consciously makes himself walk on the platform, but his legs are still stiff or too weak to stand upright , the expression was already stiff due to fear, when the coach helped him onto the platform, his upper body leaned back, the coach counted 3, 2, 1 twice, but he still didn’t dare to jump, finally the coach had to push the back picture and push it down, people Falling straight down like a bomb.When the end of the rope is reached, the rope will pull the person into a 180-degree turn. At this time, there is a loud "ah" from the bottom of the cliff, and the audience knows that the person is still sane.After the rope has been bounced in the air for five or six rounds, and the person is hanging upside down at the end of the rope, a small boat will unload the person who is still moving on the rope and transport him to the opposite bank, and then the person will sit on the river bank for a long time. Moving, as if reminiscing the taste of the death tunnel. Professional ladies stab into the blue sky and fall into the canyon in an extremely graceful diving style.Since no one in the audience is hers, her performance is beautiful and silent, rather like the crowd watching an irreparable suicide.This is the greatest evil under the sun. Kang Cheng was tied up after the professional woman jumped off, and he was not applauded.But he was not as calm as the lady. He kept pumping himself up and asking himself to be calm, but his calf didn't obey at all, and he began to twitch like a wiggle.He supported the pillar and moved step by step towards the protruding platform. The coach wanted to help him. He thought he was okay, but his legs seemed to be in shackles. It looks cool, and has a greater gravity than the center of the earth.People began to lose their center of gravity in the wind, and lost the ability to control their bodies precisely. This was the most frightening thing for Kang Cheng. He no longer has the correct concept of time. After an unknown amount of time, Kang Cheng finally raised his arms. At this time, he could no longer rely on his will, but instead relied on his imagination to guide his actions. He imagined himself as a giant black-body white-headed bird. The rock eagle spread its wings against the rising air current.He thought he had already done it, as long as his body leaned forward a little, he would fly in the wind.In the eyes of the audience, he actually has two arms one up and one down, and his legs are supported like an eighty-year-old man in a circle. He stretches his neck forward in a very funny way, and his whole body is like a piece of scrap iron being pushed down, dumbfounded. Fell into the air. The huge wind made him unable to hear the shouts of the audience, only the whistling roar in his ears. When he opened his eyes, the water rushed towards his face, and he couldn't help shouting: Ah...