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Jun 17, 2015 18:42
9 yrs ago
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French term

dépoussiérage

French to English Tech/Engineering IT (Information Technology)
Document dealing with information system (SI/IS) security.

"Contrôles anti-piégeages. Sur les SI particulièrement sensibles, il convient de mener des contrôles anti-piégeages réguliers, effectués par du personnel formé. Il peut être fait appel à des services spécialisés pour les opérations dites de « dépoussiérage »."

There are no other clues as to what this "dust removal" might involve, other than actual dust. The question is: presumably this is a figurative use, otherwise why say "dites" and why put it entre guillemets... Could it mean stuff like cleaning up hard disk space, defragmenting and performing similar chores?
Proposed translations (English)
3 +1 housekeeping
4 -1 cleaning
4 -1 dust-removal

Discussion

Graeme Jones Jun 18, 2015:
how about 'disk cleanup' as in the utility:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/delete-files-usin...
Daryo Jun 18, 2015:
well some comments (and answer: "malware cleanup") now gone would give the impression that these two aspects have been bundled together... I didn't dream it!
Mpoma (asker) Jun 17, 2015:
Oh, I see ... on the assumption that we're talking about the same document... yes, see your point. You appear to have deleted 2 of 3 discussion entries you made, which makes things a bit confusing. Yes, it's curious. Signing off...
DLyons Jun 17, 2015:
Google your text!!!
Mpoma (asker) Jun 17, 2015:
@DLyons This is slightly surreal: again I ask you: what on earth makes you think "physical" security is involved? Where O where do you see that in the original quote! signed: Baffled of Basingstoke
Mpoma (asker) Jun 17, 2015:
umm I'm astonished by the amount of heat and noise going on in this question. Daryo: er, yes, fine... did anyone say the two aspects were the same? Lis Askew: "despeckling" would work fine for a cleaning up an image... but this ain't to do with that. It is perfectly clear to me, since Phil Goddard's contribution, that the process here is "system or disk (IT) housekeeping" ... !
Daryo Jun 17, 2015:
you have here TWO separate/different aspects of IT security:

1) contrôles anti-piégeages réguliers
2) opérations dites de « dépoussiérage ».

two totally different kind of problems - "dépoussiérage" IS NOT a type of "contrôles anti-piégeages"
B D Finch Jun 17, 2015:
May be relevant? I wondered whether the use of the idea of "poussière" could have some connection with the use of the word "poussière" for low value coins e.g. 1 or 2 euro cents. That would fit with the idea of getting rid of clutter. Hoovering one's hard drive, by contrast, would not usually be a method of speeding it up.
Mpoma (asker) Jun 17, 2015:
@Philgoddard thanks... yes, yes... getting rid of clutter... or you could call it "housekeeping" of hard drives, etc.
philgoddard Jun 17, 2015:
Here's an example: Un dépoussiérage logiciel lui permettra de garder sa rapidité. Un ordinateur accumule des fichiers indésirables, exemple lorsque vous installez et désinstallez des programmes (la base de registre s'encombre), ou lorsque vous naviguez sur internet (fichiers temporaires,) ou bien encore un disque dur qui doit être défragmenté. XL pc vous formera pour maintenir votre machine optimale.

http://www.xlpcdepannage.fr/nettoyagedepoussierage.html
Mpoma (asker) Jun 17, 2015:
how do you mean? I'm not sure what you mean by saying the text lists this under physical controls... where do you see that? "Piégage" I took to be "(DDoS) entrapment"... what do you understand by this term "piégage" in an IT security context?
Mpoma (asker) Jun 17, 2015:
aha Before I am excoriated for not doing enough preliminary research, I did in fact do a search for "dépoussiérage informatique"... unfortunately this brought up nothing but clean rooms. What I *should* have done is searched on "logiciel de dépoussiérage"... this has indeed led to some interesting pistes... but I'd still be interested in any replies!

Proposed translations

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14 hrs
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housekeeping

How about "housekeeping", as used for cleaning up your computer?

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Note added at 1 day1 hr (2015-06-18 20:40:30 GMT)
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Yes, sorry, when I proposed the translation I hadn't read the oldest entries in the discussion.
Reference:

http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/h/housekee.htm

Note from asker:
see discussion... yes, this is what I came up with... but you can't answer your own question in Proz!
No problem... great minds think alike, as they say!
Peer comment(s):
agree Nikki Scott-Despaigne
4 mins
Thanks Nikki
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22 mins

cleaning

Beaucoup de logiciels faisant du depoussierage ont 'cleaner' comme suffixe

http://www.tomsguide.fr/article/logiciels-gratuits,2-82-15.h...
Note from asker:
Merci... mais je ne suis pas (encore) 100% convaincu, car l'expression "dépoussiérage" est absente de cette page en français. Pourquoi n'aurait-on pas choisi le mot "nettoyage" dans ce cas? Je viens tout juste de faire deux recherches: "logiciel de nettoyage" et "logiciel de dépoussiérage"... les 2 existent...
Peer comment(s):
agree philgoddard : Yes, it means getting rid of unneeded files.
1 hr
disagree liz askew : nettoyage = cleaning
2 hrs
disagree Daryo : "Beaucoup de logiciels ..." true, but what is relevant HERE is not some "general case", but the one in the ST
4 hrs
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-1
1 min

dust-removal

https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1...

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sorry

without the hyphen

dust removal

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Note added at 2 hrs (2015-06-17 21:34:23 GMT)
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How To Remove Dust From A Photo Scan Using GIMP
howtoscan.ca/remove-dust-photo-scan-gimp.html
Photo Scanning Tip: Remove Dust And Scratches Using FREE Image Editing ... Open your file. ... To use the Heal Tool, you'll need to "set image source".

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Scans, Photos et retouche d'images - Explore The Best ...
dmqeicu57st5j.cloudfront.net/.../scans-photos-et-retou...
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J'en ai testé plusieurs, avant de retenir The Gimp et Photofiltre. Mais chacun à des ... PhotoFiltre est un logiciel de retouche d'images très complet.Il permet d'effectuer des ... Retouche Photo - Dépoussiérage: Dépoussiérage, dépétouillage et ...

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The actual word you require is

Despeckle


same principle as dust removal!

La Pomme sans pépins-Gr.U.M.F - Yahoo Groupes
https://fr.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/la.../10632
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1 May 2015 - Tu peux toujours essayer le filtre "dépoussiérage" (despeckle); je me sers de ça pour des photos tramées avec un assez bon résultat, mais les

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Image processing functions performed by FineReader Engine
www.abbyy.com/ocr-sdk-windows/ocr-stages/image-processing/
... 180, and 270 degrees); Automated image de-skewing (up to +/- 20 degrees); Image despeckling (or image clean-up); Despeckling images in individual blocks

so nettoyage = clean-up

depoussiérage = despeckle
Note from asker:
umm... thanks for the quick response, but as ever a simple link to a google search using words in the question is of limited use, and presumably I have already done stuff like this myself! My close reading of the FR tells me that it is likely (although not 100%) that this is a figurative use...
Peer comment(s):
disagree Daryo : wrong context, 'm afraid // the ST is not about image manipulation/editing software, but about security and efficiency of computers.
5 hrs
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