User Comments - pretzellogic

Posted on: Computer Problems and Tech Support

still a great database for tech terms.

Posted on: Computer Problems and Tech Support

Hey, I just observed that your Microsoft link doesn't give names of products like Tivoli Provisioning Manager, or Apple Remote Desktop. Do you know of a website that's more "vendor agnostic"? :)

Posted on: Computer Problems and Tech Support

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?

Posted on: Computer Problems and Tech Support

fair point. maybe I should have said, "ghosted" :) At least I used to hear that in the ancient past.

Posted on: Computer Problems and Tech Support

my take is that most "normal" people don't keep a 2 GB image of their operating environment and applications and data on their computer either. Then their machine dies, and takes critical data with it, and then people get religion.

Posted on: Computer Problems and Tech Support

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".

Posted on: Computer Problems and Tech Support

Thanks Jenny!

Posted on: Computer Problems and Tech Support

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?")

Posted on: Shut up!

lujiaojie, svik, thanks.  I am beginning to accept Chinese.

Posted on: Fire in the Hallway!

good story!! no beatings afterward??