It's cool that cpod is adding technology lessons. I recall that much of the tech dialog in this lesson (internet, websites, mouse, "computer froze") has been taught in other lessons. I don't recall that virus and operating environment have been, so that's helpful.

It would be helpful for those of us that have technology backgrounds if there could be additional dialog around some of the steps that IT would take in troubleshooting. Certainly, reinstalling the OS is one answer to virus infection, but another intermediate step might have been to install and run anti-virus, anti-spyware, or anti-spam programs.

Plus, reinstalling the operating environment means potentially losing data. It would be helpful to have dialog around "backup", "saved files" and "reimaging" so that the panicked user with slow websites wouldn't be scared that he lost the Word document he spent the last 2 weeks working on for an important client.

So, how do you say in Chinese in context:

Anti-spyware

Anti-spam

Anti-virus

Reimage

backup (as in, "did you backup your files so that you have a copy somewhere else besides your computer?")

anti-spam: 反垃圾邮件

anti-virus: 防病毒

backup copy: 备份副本

Source: http://www.microsoft.com/language/en/us/search.mspx

This page gives the translations used by Microsoft in their products so they're pretty well guaranteed to be current.

anti-spam: 反垃圾邮件/an3 la1 ji1 you2 jian4 or 垃圾过滤/la1 ji1 guo4 lv4 (过滤 means 'filtering')

anti-virus：防毒软件/fang2 du2 ruan3 jian4

backup: 备份/bei4 fen4

I don't know what 'reimage' is though.

minor mistake: the 对了 from the line 对了，有时候还会出来一些乱七八糟的网页。is not in the lesson, but in the pdf and the dialogue tab.

For the rest: awesome lesson!!!

汉语真实的。为什么动不了的了盒饭死了的了一样的？

Reimage: 重新安装, install once again. There's no set term for this.

a1pi2, thanks for the link. I was casually doing a search for the Chinese term for "virtualization", and was hoping for both pinyin and characters, but I see it only does characters. Next time, I should try "cloud computing".

Yeah, this page is intended for people who already know Chinese : ) I learned about it when I had a coworker translate some slides for a talk I gave in Beijing from English to Chinese.

It's amazing how difficult it is to keep track of technology terms. Most Chinese at work just use English terms in Chinese conversations.

I suggest you use one of the many Pinyinizer programs to transcribe this from Hanzi to Pinyin.

cyberattack

web censorship

freedom of information

i am having difficulty accessing google

I asked my two Chinese native speakers and they both individually told me it's 4th tone and not neutral. I have a feeling that Beijing people are the only ones who use neutral tone for that

Where are the Chinese guys from?

Great useful lesson for me. I wonder if anyone could kindly tell me how to say something in Chinese?

"Recover Lost data"

我是技术部的人， 死机了的时候， 有人总是需要recover what they were working on. 很多中国人学生。

实践中文的机会

For the first time the "Paste from Word" button showed up on my computer, so I'm going to try to post this way. I hope you all don't end up with a lot of coding. My internet truly is so slow and spotty, the graphics most often don't load.

我 的 网 速 这 么 慢！我 经 常 不 能 用 Skype.

wǒde wǎngsù zhème màn! Wǒ jīngcháng bù néng yòng Skype.

My internet is so slow! I often can't use Skype.

What I'd like to say, and it's true...

My internet is not reliable.

Usually it is very slow, even slower than dialup.

Any corrections or suggestions appreciated. This is a great lesson for picking up useful vocabulary.

Ah thanks. So 'data' is 数据 (shùjù)?

huī fù shù jù

需要恢复数据马？(xūyào huīfù shùjù ma?)

other useful ones:

打印坏了吗? (dǎ yìn huài le ma?) - is the printer broken?

上不了网吗? (shàng bù liǎo wǎng ma?) - Internet down?

not sure if 上不了网 means "internet connection is down" or "can't get online personally" or both.

arg how do you get rid of this crazy spacing between lines?

[enter] makes crazy spacing.

[enter]+[shift] makes normal spacing.

Hm, seems it doesn't work with the new threaded posts though.

oooooohhhhhhh...... sounds interesting. Don't the OEMs just use System Center Config Manager? :) Well, maybe not HP. Dell and Lenovo perhaps? Or is Lenovo just using Tivoli Provisioning Manager for IT?

汉语真是的。为什么动不了的了和烦死了的了一样呢？

继续努力！！加油加油

We now need to learn html code.
For a new line without spacing, type
< b r >

newline one.
newline two.

"keep a 2 GB image of their operating environment and applications and data on their computer either"

..有意思和我觉得明显是很好的主意。麻烦你，你有没有一个链接为了显示那怎么办？

"then people get religion"

。。呵呵，好笑的说法。。我喜欢。我猜意思是他们“看到一个灯”。。换句话说他们以后学习他们的错误和备份，对不对？

baba, In answer to your first question (I think), here are some handydandy links that are probably more than you really wanted to know about imaging. By the way, I probably should have better called it cloning. Do not consider the links below an endorsement of any product or methodology.

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=418

http://www.bay-wolf.com/ghostclone.htm

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.operatingsystem.clone.aspx

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

http://www.symantec.com/norton/ghost

Another by the way: I'm not quite sure if you're a Star Trek fan, but if you are, cloning is a Genesis device for PCs. (Recall the Wrath of Khan) It can replicate the Eden that was your pristine computer before those nasty viruses and spyware attacked your machine and made it foul. But in the wrong hands, it will erase completely and permanently everything that went before, including those rare pictures of your teenager when she was 2.

Cloning has advantages, but mere backup gets much of the data protection job done.