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- From: jammer@eskimo.com (Lyle Harwood)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Will ants do harm to the computer?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.124054.11588@eskimo.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 12:40:54 GMT
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- chang hsu liu (cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
- : nks for the responses from the netters. The way I have done so far is
- : to clean up my desk, and isolate my desk from the wall. I used another
- : trick I remember my mother used to prevent the ants from going into
- the
- : powder milk can, i.e., I put rubber bands over the cables wires of
- the
- : phone and ethernet. Ants probably do not like the smell of the rubber
- : band. They probably will stop trespass the line due to the band. I
- don't
- : know if this will work. Let's wait and see.
- :
- : I found that ants doesn't like the smell of WD-40, and I sprayed some
- : into the hole on the wall where they hide. It killed some ants. (The
- : smell is so strong, and I feel a little sick. If they don't get killed
- : first, I probably died before them.) Hopefully, they would never like
- to
- : go to my room anymore.
- :
- : Another thing probably is even more important is not to put any food
- on
- : my table from now on. The food may be the main reason they came to my
- : table in the first place.
- :
- : I am not sure if they have built their kingdom in my computer already.
-
- : I used to see one or two ants climbing on the screen of the monitor,
- but
- : I thought they might not like the heat or even radiation :-) I lived
- : pretty peacefully with them until I saw so many in the transceiver.
- : Has anyone seen cases that ants live in the monitor. I checked my cpu
- : and didn't see any. It's hard to get the monitor open, and I don't
- want
- : to break the warranty.
- :
- :
- : Peter Liu
- : cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
- :
- That Macsbug was TRUELY bad! :)
-
- I've always found that a .45 M1911A1 worked best for ants.
-