{"id":22203,"date":"2015-07-08T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=22203"},"modified":"2017-11-21T16:19:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T15:19:05","slug":"the-computer-magasin-getting-technical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/the-computer-magasin-getting-technical\/","title":{"rendered":"The Computer Magasin: Getting Technical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week <strong>mon ordinateur \u00e9tait en panne<\/strong> (my computer was broken) and I had to go to <strong>le magasin d&#8217;informatique<\/strong> (the computer store). I was worried that <strong>mon vocabulaire d&#8217;informatique<\/strong> (my computer vocabulary) wasn&#8217;t good enough and that I wouldn&#8217;t be able to explain the problem. On top of that, with <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/just-like-a-heatwave-heat-related-vocabulary-in-french\/\"><strong>la canicule<\/strong><\/a>, it was so hot I just didn&#8217;t want to do anything!<\/p>\n<p>I knew some basic <strong>vocabulaire<\/strong>, and that was enough to let me know that I might not be able to say what I needed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Par exemple<\/strong> (for example), I wasn&#8217;t quite sure how to say:<\/p>\n<p><em>There seems to be a problem with the boot sector, and I&#8217;m afraid the hard drive has failed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I had to try if I wanted my computer fixed! I walked in and said:<\/p>\n<p>-Il me semble qu&#8217;il y a un probl\u00e8me avec le secteur boot et j&#8217;ai peur que le disque dur <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/irregular-and-stem-changing-verbs-in-the-subjunctive\/\">ait<\/a> \u00e9chou\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>He understood! Although I quickly learned <em>boot sector<\/em> is <strong>le secteur d&#8217;intialisation<\/strong> and not <em>le secteur boot<\/em>. However his prognosis made my feelings of success short lived.<\/p>\n<p>-\u00c7a va prendre cinq jours au moins et si c&#8217;est le disque dur, \u00e7a va couter 500 \u20ac (cinq cents euros) pour le remplacer et l&#8217;installer, plus le co\u00fbt de main d\u2019\u0153uvre.<\/p>\n<p><em>It will take five days and if it&#8217;s the hard drive, it will cost \u20ac500 to replace it and install it, plus labor costs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t prepared to pay \u20ac500, so I asked:<\/p>\n<p>-Est-ce que je peux le faire moi-m\u00eame ?<\/p>\n<p>-En fait, si vous voulez, utilisez une live DVD Linux et voir si les donn\u00e9es sont toujours l\u00e0. Alors vous allez savoir si le disque dur est en panne ou non.<\/p>\n<p>-C&#8217;est une bonne id\u00e9e !<\/p>\n<p><em>Can I do it myself?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In fact, if you want to, use a Linux live DVD and see if the data is still there. Then you will know if the harddrive is broken or not.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That&#8217;s a good idea!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I bought <strong>un DVD<\/strong> and <strong>une fois \u00e0 la maison<\/strong> (once I was home), his idea worked! I could <strong>sauvegarder<\/strong> (backup, save) all my files and nothing was lost!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Voici une liste de mots d&#8217;informatique :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>La batterie\/la pile<\/strong> battery<br \/>\n<strong>Le bug, l&#8217;erreur<\/strong> glitch, bug (computer problem)<br \/>\n<strong>Le clavier<\/strong> keyboard<br \/>\n<strong>Le Disque Dur<\/strong> Hard Drive<br \/>\n<strong>Les donn\u00e9es<\/strong> data<br \/>\n<strong>L&#8217;\u00e9cran (m)<\/strong> screen<br \/>\n<strong>Effacer, supprimer<\/strong> to delete<br \/>\n<strong>Le fichier<\/strong> file<br \/>\n<strong>L&#8217;imprimante (f)<\/strong> printer<br \/>\n<strong>Imprimer<\/strong> to print<br \/>\n<strong>L&#8217;informatique (f)<\/strong> Computing, computer science, programming<br \/>\n<strong>Installer<\/strong> to install<br \/>\n<strong>Le lecteur CDROM<\/strong> CDROM player<br \/>\n<strong>Le logiciel<\/strong> program (software)<br \/>\n<strong>Le lien<\/strong> link<br \/>\n<strong>Le mat\u00e9riel<\/strong> hardware<br \/>\n<strong>La m\u00e9moire<\/strong> memory<br \/>\n<strong>La mise-a-jour<\/strong> update<br \/>\n<strong>Mettre \u00e0 jour<\/strong> to update<br \/>\n<strong>Le moniteur<\/strong> monitor<br \/>\n<strong>L&#8217;octet (m)<\/strong> byte<br \/>\n<strong>L&#8217;ordinateur (m)<\/strong> computer<br \/>\n<strong>Le plantage<\/strong> crash<br \/>\n<strong>Le r\u00e9seau <\/strong>network<br \/>\n<strong>Le site web<\/strong> website<br \/>\n<strong>La touche<\/strong> key (of a keyboard)<br \/>\n<strong>Le serveur<\/strong> server<br \/>\n<strong>Le son<\/strong> sound<br \/>\n<strong>La souris<\/strong> mouse<br \/>\n<strong>Le syst\u00e8me d&#8217;exploitation<\/strong> Operating system<br \/>\n<strong>La Toile<\/strong> The Web<br \/>\n<strong>La sauvegarde<\/strong> backup, save<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/07\/384080245_9489a17c36_z-350x253.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/07\/384080245_9489a17c36_z-350x253.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/07\/384080245_9489a17c36_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Last week mon ordinateur \u00e9tait en panne (my computer was broken) and I had to go to le magasin d&#8217;informatique (the computer store). I was worried that mon vocabulaire d&#8217;informatique (my computer vocabulary) wasn&#8217;t good enough and that I wouldn&#8217;t be able to explain the problem. On top of that, with la canicule, it was&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/the-computer-magasin-getting-technical\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":22204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22203","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28807,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22203\/revisions\/28807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}