Xueba's computing system

Chapter 48 The clouds clear and the fog disperses
Lin Yuan quickly found the update and the comment according to the URL provided by the system.

This is naturally due to the fact that the internal network of the university can access the external network. This is unmatched in other places. Even visiting websites like GitHub in a good group company will not be as smooth as accessing the campus network.

Lin Yuan studied the comment carefully. It did not have any replies or likes, just like most comments under popular discussions online, falling into oblivion.

But since it was picked out by the system, there must be a reason.

Lin Yuan turned his gaze back to the system panel. According to the logical chain given by the system, this comment was linked to a web page.

Lin Yuan quickly entered the URL prompted by the system into the browser address bar.

The suffix of the webpage is HK, and Lin Yuan has already sensed something. Because the system just prompted that the OCR organization has a branch office in HK.

Since the HK network is directly connected to the international network, although it is geographically located in the mainland, it is separated from the mainland on the network. Therefore, the loading speed of this webpage is relatively slow, and the browser took more than ten seconds to finally display the entire webpage.

What caught Lin Yuan's eyes were a large number of pictures. No wonder the loading was so slow just now.

The people in the pictures were dressed in various costumes, including wizards, clowns, and headless knights, and the surrounding scenes were decorated with a large number of pumpkin lanterns with ghost faces. Lin Yuan finally realized that this seemed to be a Halloween-related event.

After a closer look, the title of the webpage also confirmed Lin Yuan's guess - Halloween Celebration. This is indeed a Halloween celebration.

The content of the webpage was a mixture of English and traditional Chinese characters, giving Lin Yuan a feeling of familiarity, yet also a sense of strangeness. Just like the men and women in the pictures, they had faces of the same species as his, but they exuded a sense of strangeness that they were not from the same region.

Lin Yuan continued to trace the source of this webpage and found that it belonged to a personal blog.

In his spare time, Lin Yuan has learned about the development of IT in China in recent decades. Nearly 20 years ago, blogs were very popular for a while.

In the era when microblogs had not yet appeared and smartphones were not yet popular, people accessed the Internet through computers. It was an era when bandwidth was precious, and blogs became the first choice for people to share their lives online. Through blogs, the public also had close contact with celebrity idols for the first time.

However, with the popularity of smart phones, the mobile Internet has swept in. Like many Internet products, blogs have been swept into the history books within a few years of their life cycle.

Nowadays, only a few nostalgic old-fashioned people still write blogs, treating blogs as small vegetable plots behind their houses. Just like farming, they don't care about what others think, but focus on pleasing themselves.

These people can generally only do this on a few remaining blog sites, because a large number of blog sites have been closed due to unsustainable operations.

However, there are occasionally some people who choose to build their own personal blog website, just like cultivating a unique area on a barren mountain.

Building a personal blog requires some knowledge of IT technology, and you also need to pay extra annual server rental fees and expend your own energy to manage and maintain the system.

This is of course not worth the loss, the only thing I get is spiritual satisfaction - because this blog belongs to me, inside and out, from the domain name to every character.

The group of people who are capable and willing to do this are mostly programmers who are both stupid and immature.

After Lin Yuan carefully browsed this personal blog, he was sure that it was built by an IT practitioner himself. The webpage was a page in his personal life record. According to the content of this page: Last Halloween, this person and his friends participated in a Halloween event.

Lin Yuan was not very concerned about the details of this Halloween event. Lin Yuan keenly noticed that this person put the code names of the participants, that is, his good friends, under a group photo.

Most people are not stupid enough to leak their personal information online.

Lin Yuan guessed that it was probably because of Halloween that these people gave themselves code names, such as Mysterious Masked Man, Halloween Nightmare, etc. But what caught Lin Yuan's attention was a nickname called "Bloody $ong1024".

Because when the system prompted the comment, it specifically highlighted the nickname of the comment owner. That nickname was exactly: Bloody $ong1024. That's what the system meant.

The owner of that comment is the same person as "Bloody $ong1024" in this blog post, because their nicknames are exactly the same.

Lin Yuan had thought about the possibility of coincidence in the nickname. However, the nickname used the "$" symbol, which is similar to "S", so the guy's surname was most likely Song. Few people would think of using this symbol as a substitute.

This guy must be an IT practitioner, otherwise he would not have mentioned the use of computing equipment. The number 1024 has a special meaning to IT personnel because it is 2 to the 10th power. The computer world is a binary world, and 1024 is a perfect number in the eyes of programmers.

So, all this combined, it's not a coincidence.

Lin Yuan quickly turned this personal blog upside down, but did not find anything related to OCR.

After thinking it over, Lin Yuan had no choice but to turn to the system for help.

【System, help me! 】

[Requires additional computing power consumption: 10P. ]

[You are such a black-hearted fortune teller, you charge me again for interpreting the divination. ]

It's not that Lin Yuan can't afford 10P computing power, but he is stubborn and doesn't believe in evil. He just used his ultimate skill with no mana left, and now he's charging me for asking one more question. He must get out of here, even if it's the system.

After scratching his head for a long time, Lin Yuan suddenly had an epiphany as if he was looking back at the dimming lights.

He quickly captured the root domain name of the web page, and then used the domain name ownership search tool to search for the domain name holder.

Simply through the free whois service in Hong Kong, Lin Yuan found the owner of the domain name.

The owner of this domain name is OCR's branch office in Hong Kong.

Lin Yuan jumped onto the chair excitedly because all the logical chains were connected.

Just now Lin Yuan was thinking out of habit.

He subconsciously thought that the domain name used for a personal blog must be applied for by the individual himself. But perhaps the owner of this blog is not from Hong Kong, and it is probably not very convenient to apply for a Hong Kong domain name, so he used the domain name under OCR's name.

Through a blog post about the blog owner's Halloween party last year, it can be confirmed that he has a friend with the nickname "Bloody $ong1024". The account that commented on the face saying that he had applied for OCR computing resources also has the nickname "Bloody $ong1024".

Putting the whole chain together, we can be sure that OCR opens up free applications for computing resources to the outside world, and will give a certain amount of free-to-use computing power quota to resource users (that's what the comment said).

At a time when computing power is money, providing large computing power resources to the outside world for free is already a very unthinkable thing. Lin Yuan doesn't think that those NGOs that claim to be non-profit organizations are really kind-hearted.

For users who use their own computing resources for free, they will also be given a certain amount of free-use computing power quota.

How should I understand this?

(End of this chapter)