Reborn Ace Hack

Chapter 344 Millennium Bug

"Have a look." Liang Xin heard Xiao Yuan ask this and quickly gave an order. After the order, he saw Xiao Yuan standing up and asked, "Have you found the reason?"

"It's just a suspicion, it still needs to be verified." Xiao Yuan said.

"What exactly is the problem?" Liang Xin asked again. At this time, their conversation had attracted the attention of everyone in the computer room, including the technician sitting in front of the console.

"Have you heard of the millennium bug?" Xiao Yuan asked.

"What is the millennium bug? Is it a virus?" Liang Xin frowned and asked. It was obvious that he was unfamiliar with this term.

"Do you think the problem with the hotel's electrical system was caused by the Y2K bug?" The technician sitting in front of the console turned to ask. Obviously he knew about the Y2K bug.

"I just suspect that old-fashioned AS400 computers like hotels are the hardest hit by the Y2K bug. You are also a professional, so you should know, right?" Xiao Yuan said.

"I think this possibility is very small. If today is New Year's Day in 2000, it is very likely that it is a millennium bug problem, but at this time, it should not be a millennium bug problem." The technician said.

"What if someone deliberately tampered with the machine time?" Xiao Yuan said.

"If it is changed, it should be reflected in the power system, but the time of the power system is normal." The technician added.

"So I asked you to check whether the machine time and the power system time are consistent." Xiao Yuan said.

"Why are you talking so much nonsense? If you are asked to check it, just check it. Hurry up. Every minute you delay will cost you another minute." Liang Xin heard the technician and Xiao Yuan arguing and urged impatiently.

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When the technician saw that his boss was angry, he naturally did not dare to waste any more time. He tapped the keyboard a few times, and the power system that covered the screen turned into a command line. He entered another command in it and responded crisply.

Amid the sound of cars, a line of time was displayed behind the command line, jan-1st- 00,00:55:45, 0:55 on January 1, 2000.

"How is it possible?" The technician immediately screamed when he saw this time. Other technicians had the same reaction as him, and there was a lot of discussion in the computer room for a while.

"Change the time back immediately!" Liang Xin also saw this time. Although he didn't know what the millennium bug was, he also knew that the time had been tampered with. He immediately realized that there was a problem with the hotel's power system, and it was probably at this time.

question, his spirits were immediately lifted, and he quickly ordered.

The technician looked at his watch and quickly adjusted the time to the correct value. Then, without Liang Xin's instructions, he switched out the power system and executed a restart command. After more than ten seconds, the power system restarted successfully.

Liang Xin turned around and left the computer room, and found that it was bright outside and the power was back to normal, so he turned back to the computer room, looked at Xiao Yuan with admiration, patted his shoulder vigorously, and laughed: "Xiao Yuan

, you are amazing."

"A blind cat has encountered a dead mouse. You don't have to look at me like that." Xiao Yuan said. Seeing that the system returned to normal, he breathed a sigh of relief and felt very happy at the same time.

"You are too modest. They have been looking for an hour without finding the problem. You have been here for twenty minutes and you have found the problem. You cannot explain the problem by saying that a blind cat will kill a mouse. No matter how you say it, you are too humble.

, you have made great contributions this time, how do you want me to thank you?" Liang Xin said, the electricity problem was solved, the stone that was weighing on his heart fell to the ground, and he became more relaxed when talking.

"They are all friends, just helping. To say that the reward is ridiculous is ridiculous." Xiao Yuan waved his hand and said, and then did not forget to remind Liang Xin, "Let me remind you, your hotel's power system should also be upgraded, otherwise

If it comes to 2000, the millennium bug will still break out."

"What exactly is the millennium bug? Is it a virus?" Liang Xin then remembered that he still didn't understand what the millennium bug was, so he asked curiously.

"The millennium bug can also be said to be a virus, because once it attacks, the consequences may be comparable to or even worse than some malignant viruses. However, it can also be said that it is not a virus because it cannot be programmed by people.

, it is a legacy issue from history. Early computer hardware was very limited, so when programmers at that time designed software, while considering software functions, they also considered how to save computer hardware and reduce memory usage."

Xiao Yuan first briefly talked about the background of the emergence of the millennium bug. Seeing that Liang Xin was listening attentively, he continued:

"In this context, in many early computer systems, the year in time was expressed with two digits. For example, our current year of 1999 is expressed as 99 in the computer. Then, a problem arises.

When January 1, 2000 comes, the computer time becomes January 1, 2000, but many computer software will regard this year 00 as 1900 instead of

In 2000, as a result, the computer time was messed up, and many time-related programs would run incorrectly or even stop running. This was the millennium bug."

"So the hotel's power system server is too old, so the millennium bug is inevitable?" Liang Xin asked.

"Unfortunately, IBM's AS400 second-generation minicomputer just meets the conditions for the Y2K outbreak." Xiao Yuan said.

"Okay, I understand. I will inform my dad about this later, and then all the old computers in the hotel will be updated." Liang Xin said.

Xiao Yuan smiled. The purpose of the reminder was achieved. As for what Liang Xin did, it was not his concern.

"Xiao Yuan, you, Kunpeng, Xiao Jun and the others should go down first. I have some things to deal with here." Liang Xin said to Xiao Yuan.

"Okay, there's nothing going on here for the time being, so I'll go back to school first." Xiao Yuan said. It was already almost ten o'clock in the evening. If he delayed further, he would lock the door when he returned to the dormitory at night.

"Okay, I'll treat you to dinner another day. I'm really sorry that something like this happened today. Besides, you don't have to worry too much about the police. I can block it for you if I can. If necessary, I will also arrange for someone to go there.

I'm going to go through the motions with you, and you can just insist that it's self-defense at 1713." Liang Xin said, because there were still many things in the hotel waiting for him to deal with, and he was not in the mood or free time to entertain Xiao Yuan again, so when he heard Xiao Yuan

I was about to leave, so I agreed.

Xiao Yuan, Wang Kunpeng, Xiao Jun, Li Mingfan and Qiao Leping left Liang Xin behind and left the computer room on the 22nd floor. They returned to the VIP room on the 20th floor and called Duan Yanyue to leave first.

After returning to school, Xiao Yuan's life returned to normal. He went to class every day and spent time with Xia Jiuying in his spare time. In the evenings and weekends, he went to his office in the Entrepreneurship Center to do what he should do for the open source community.

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Three days passed quickly, and the police never came to him. Liu Dong officially resigned from Xuannie Company the day before at the request of Duan Yanyue and Xiao Yuan, and returned to school to work full-time in the open source community.

It was the weekend. The weather was a bit cold and the air was extremely humid. It looked like it was going to rain. Xiao Yuan sat in the Entrepreneurship Center office all morning. At twelve o'clock, he temporarily stopped what he was doing and prepared to go find

Liu Dong and Duan Yanyue were having lunch when the office phone rang. When he answered the call, it turned out to be Liang Xin calling, saying that he wanted to invite him to dinner again.

ps: The second update has been sent, and there will be a third and fourth update later.

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