78. Seon Ninety-Seven
When In-cheol and In-cheol arrived at Yunseong Soft’s office, Assistant Manager Lee was in the midst of server recovery, and Yun-seok-yi and Eun-seong were assembling a new computer.
After a short greeting, I asked my brother.
“Are you assembling a computer for a server?”
“Yeah, I should have done it in advance, but I lost a cow and I’m fixing the barn. ha ha ha–!”
Incheol said while checking the computer parts boxes stacked on one side.
“Boss, can I and Jung-ho assemble a computer with the parts here?”
“ha ha ha–! After all, our In-cheol is the best! Even if you don’t tell me, you know everything!”
It didn’t take long to assemble the two computers.
Instead, it took quite a while to install the server OS and connect it to the original server computer.
When all the work was done, the clock showed 7 pm.
Yoon Seok-yi hyung said.
“Everyone suffered. I think I’ll have to go buy an air conditioner for the office tomorrow.”
I was thinking the same thing.
Because the Yunseong Soft office is located in the basement, it was very cold in winter, but tolerable in summer.
But now that we have three server computers, we will need an air conditioner to handle the heat from it.
But the real problem isn’t the air conditioning.
The problem was whether the three server computers could handle the average number of V-Stop downloads exceeding 10,000 units per day.
The size of the V-Stop installation package is about 15 MB.
Assuming that the average number of downloads per day is 10000, and it is evenly distributed during the 12 hours of the day, the outbound traffic will be about 27Mbps.
Internet connection is sufficient, but three server computers are too much.
In particular, it was clear that problems would arise again during the afternoon to night hours when the connection was congested.
How could there be no better way?
While thinking like this, Yoon Seok-yi hyung said.
“Let’s all go to dinner.”
“Senior, I have dinner plans, so I think I should go first.”
Yoon Seok-yi hyung opened his mouth at the words of Deputy Lee.
“ah… ! right. You said you were meeting your girlfriend? Isn’t it late?”
“I told you in advance that you would be late.”
As Assistant Manager Lee packed his bag and left the office, In-cheol held out a blue piece of paper and a name pen to Eun-seong.
“Eunseong-ah, can I sign Silver Castle here?”
There was a moment of silence at In-cheol’s words, and Eun-seong said with a slightly embarrassed expression.
“sign? I don’t have anything like that… .”
“Then, you can just roughly write Silver Castle like this. yes?”
Seeing In-cheol’s serious expression, Eun-seong took the name pen that In-cheol held out and said.
“Wait a minute.”
Eunseong brought back a piece of paper and practiced it a few times, and then made a nice autograph on the paper Incheol gave her.
A bright smile appeared on In-cheol’s face as he received the Silver Castle autograph.
“Wow! It’s really cool. This is something I will keep for the rest of my life. the best! best! ha ha ha!”
It’s been 6 years since I’ve been hanging out with Incheol.
In-cheol is a bluffer, so he often makes an exaggerated expression on his face.
The happy expression of 100% purity came out like this…
It’s probably the first time since the day In-cheol first held Ji-eun’s hand three years ago.
“Okay, let’s go to dinner now.”
In-cheol-i said at Yoon-seok-hyung’s words.
“president! Instead of dinner, please buy us 100 days a week.”
Come to think of it, there were about 100 days left until the entrance exam, and these days, there was talk of a 100-day week among my friends.
At In-cheol’s words, Yoon-seok-hyung had a bewildered expression on his face, and In-cheol continued to speak without missing a gap.
“It is said that if you want to show off your skills properly in the entrance exam, you must drink 100 days of wine. Besides, the president graduated from Korea University! There is a saying that if you get 100 days of wine from a graduate of Korea University and eat it, you will be a jackpot for the entrance exam.”
okay? It’s the first I’ve ever heard of it.
“What kind of drink is a minor? Never drink!”
That was then.
I could feel a subtle gaze passing between In-cheol and Eun-seong, but, as it should be, after a while, Eun-seong said to Yun-seok-hyung.
“Hyung, I want to eat a hundred wine, too.”
“Huh? no way! Be patient, and drink a lot later when you go to college. yes?”
Eun-seong thought for a moment at Yun-seok-yi hyung’s decisive reaction, and then opened his mouth in a low voice.
“okay? Hmm—. on a Monday evening Did I go for a walk to the entrance to the Grand Park? But I saw my brother there… .”
At Eun-seong’s words, Yun-seok-yi’s face turned to contemplation.
“hey… ! men and horses!”
“Did you look really good? Who was with you? Shall I tell my mother? Do you think your mother will like it? A few days ago, my mother told me to show my brother… Oops!”
Yoon-seok-yi hyung covered Eun-seong’s mouth and said.
“Okay, okay! Instead, it’s just one can of each of you.”
In response to his brother’s words, Incheol and Eunseong rubbed their palms together and said.
“Aww–!”
“Oh yeah–!”
Looking at it from the side, Eun-seong and In-cheol seem to get along really well.
Yoon Seok-yi hyung went out of the office to buy a beer, and while In-cheol ordered a pizza for delivery, I tapped Eun-seong’s shoulder and said:
“Eunseong-ah, thank you!”
“yes? what? One hundred weeks?”
I said with a smirk.
“No, I posted a notice.”
“ah… ! it! ah, thank you In fact, after hearing about it from hyung, I was so angry that I was scolded for writing it and controlling my emotions.”
“But I have one thing to tell you.”
“… ?”
“During the interview that day, the reporter didn’t record it.”
“Okay.”
“Did you know that?”
Eunseong nodded her head with a calm expression at my words.
“Well then… why? Did you write it like that?”
“just.”
just say that?
I knew it, but you just wrote it like that in the notice?
Seeing my bewildered face, Eunseong just smiled without saying a word.
* * *
The day before, Daedong Ilbo’s social department desk.
The social worker said to reporter So-jung, who returned to the desk.
“Cow reporter! Come into the conference room.”
The social worker said to reporter So-jeong, who entered the conference room.
“Close the door and sit down.”
After a brief silence, the social worker spoke.
“What did you say in the audit room?”
“… .”
The social worker asked again as if frustrated.
“Cow reporter! What did you talk about? What do I need to know, can I help you?”
Reporter So-jeong opened her mouth with a short sigh.
“You know how to write your resignation?”
“therefore?”
“I said I couldn’t write.”
Reporter So So-jeong continued speaking with a bitter smile.
“I said I couldn’t die alone.”
At her words, the social worker opened his mouth in a low voice.
“There is a story that if you are looking for that recording, the prosecution will apply for a search warrant.”
At his words, reporter So-jeong said with a smirk.
“Don’t try to scare me with that. I’m a reporter from the police department. Are you saying that the prosecution is conducting a search and seizure of the press for this? Is that also the Daedong Ilbo? I do not know. ha ha ha–!”
“Public opinion is not good. If this atmosphere continues, there could be a real search warrant for finding the recordings.”
“There really are no recording files! GNOME’s recording file! There’s no way to record it unless I’m crazy!”
In response to reporter So-jeong’s nervous reaction, the social worker said as if in anger.
“Reporter So, don’t make a big deal, write your resignation and be quiet. Once this is over, I will introduce you to a good local newspaper.”
“ha ha ha–! Manager, isn’t that a line from a third-rate gangster movie?”
“… .”
“I didn’t get thousands of dollars to buy an apartment like the kids from the economic department, and I didn’t receive entertainment in the room like the kids from the political department! Don’t be too hard on your manager, even if you’ve earned some pocket money. Again, I cannot die alone.”
At her words, the social worker raised his voice with an angry expression.
“You can’t die alone? her–! really! What if you can’t die alone? Do you have any evidence that the reporters here are getting paid?”
“How… ! Are you saying the same things you heard in the audit room?”
Reporter So So-jeong continued with a smile.
“Whether I have evidence or not… No one knows.”
* * *
After a while, Seok-yi Yoon returned to buy beer and snacks, and soon the bulgogi pizza that In-cheol ordered also arrived.
The four of us sat around the office table, and Yoon Seok-yi poured beer into a paper cup and handed it to us one by one.
When my brother handed me the paper cup, I shook my head and said,
“I’ll have a Coke.”
paroxysmal epilepsy or epilepsy.
It is a disease that has tormented me in the past life, and it has also affected my death to some extent.
Although a direct link between alcohol consumption and epilepsy has not been established, it is true that alcohol impairs the brain’s judgment and cognitive abilities.
I wanted to be careful from now on.
So we filled paper cups and toasted.
“For the great success of the 1999 SAT!”
When I got a little hungry, I said to Yunseok-hyung.
“Hyung, will three servers be enough?”
My brother shook his head as if he knew my question.
“It will probably be difficult.”
“How are you going to do it? It is also difficult to increase the number of server computers.”
“Well. First of all, we have to watch a little bit more.”
Yoon-seok-hyung continued speaking with a bitter smile.
“But isn’t this a really funny situation?”
He seemed to know what his brother meant.
It is true that the number of downloads of V-Stop has increased, which is good, but it means that we cannot afford to increase the capacity of the server now.
“Hyung, how about looking for a server company outside?”
“It’s not that I didn’t think of that either, but we have an image of our company.”
Although the number of downloads of V-Stop increased and most of the company’s sales came from V-Stop, the main product of Yunseong Soft in our opinion was Michael Security.
Michael Security is an Internet security software, a program package that protects public institutions or corporate servers from external attacks or hacking.
For reference, Yunseong Soft’s server is protected in two or three layers based on Michael Security.
Does a three-employee IT company really need such an over-the-top security system? may be questioned, but it had a symbolic meaning.
If Yunseong Soft’s server is breached, this means that the reliability of Michael Security will be hit directly.
For this reason, there were quite a few white hackers targeting the computer networks of Internet security companies such as Yoon Sung Soft.
A white hacker is the opposite of a black hacker who performs malicious cyber attacks, and refers to an Internet security expert who tries to hack into a specific website and finds security problems.
In other words, it was not because of Yun Seok-yi’s company image, which meant that Yoon Sung Soft, which focuses on server security business, could not operate the company’s website through an external server company.
“I know that. So how about doing this?”
“… ?”
“We only send the download path of the V-Stop installation package to an external company.”
Yoon-seok-hyung, who had a blank expression for a moment at my words, started laughing out loud.
“ha ha ha–! what? Was I stupid? Why didn’t you think of that? ha ha ha–! I’m not going to buy the air conditioner tomorrow, I’m going to go look for a server company?”
“Hyung, when I go to meet a server company, can’t I go with you?”
“Jeong-ho, are you? Do you think I can do this by myself?”
“I have a story I want to talk to a server company.”
“You guys are in high school right now, so you don’t want to waste your time. Is it something important?”
I laughed at my brother’s question and said.
“Yeah, it’s a really important story.”
“… ?”
“I am going to sell Michael Security to a server company.”