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[dkellis]

I think I may have figured out why the computer sometimes crashes unexpectedly.

It's buggy, literally. Ants got into it, for no reason I can discern.

Comments

[jarodrussell]

Anthill inside?

[dkellis]

Yeah, I was trying to find a way to fit that pun in, but I couldn't think of a graceful method.

[crisuskeer]

roflmao..

Did you have spills near your desk at all recenty?

So are ants capable of conducting an electric current? Or maybe they just provide enough resistance to throw off some voltage values to cause crashes, hm.

But at least with ants you can easily tell what they're targeting. Or is there nothing inside the case of interest, but the ants depth-first search method happens to go through the computer case?

[dkellis]

No spills. No food near my desk recently, in fact. Not that I'm all that concerned about cleanliness, but rather the opposite: my desk is covered in so many books and DVDs that I don't really have any place to put a plate.

I'm actually just seeing dead ant corpses inside the computer case. Said computer case is otherwise clean, even of dust: I'm assuming that the ants got lost or something.

[kwsapphire]

A friend of mine got ants in her mouse. Will got roaches in his microwave. They were literally living in the back of the micrwave. Ew.

[kelessa]

Incidentally, that's apparently where the term computer "bug" came from; a moth got into one of the first, very large, computers, and ended up screwing the thing up royally.

[irishninja]

Dude. What?

(No, I never have anything intelligent to say in my comments.) :D

[siliconhero]

Yours too, huh? That sucks. I still haven't figured out what keeps making my computer crash. The only thing I've done to remedy it is turn the damn thing off at night when I go to sleep. Stupid Compaqs...