Ants in my Notebook : Any solution ?
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I am currently in country side and yesterday I left my notebook on the floor and ants seems to have found new home in it. There are lots of tiny red ants coming out of keyboard every now and then and I can see them through the spaces between keys. Any solution to get rid of them ? :confused: I command them to get out of my notebook but they are very tough and didn't listen to the command. :)
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
Open up the notebook and place it in a containter. Then close the container and light a cigarette and blow the smoke into the container. Eventually the smoke should kill them off. :)
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What crappy solution is that? It should read 1. pour gasoline on it 2. light it on fire 3. Any other problems? --> goto 1 Code reuse, bro, code reuse.
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I am currently in country side and yesterday I left my notebook on the floor and ants seems to have found new home in it. There are lots of tiny red ants coming out of keyboard every now and then and I can see them through the spaces between keys. Any solution to get rid of them ? :confused: I command them to get out of my notebook but they are very tough and didn't listen to the command. :)
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
Suspend the machine 5mm above the surface of the planet. Place a volatile sweet liquid nearby. The ants will leave the notebook in search of the nectar, and will fall, crashing to earth. They will then be unable to return to the notebook! Simple engineering problem. (Unless ants learn to build scaffold towers or pater noster lifts!)
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I am currently in country side and yesterday I left my notebook on the floor and ants seems to have found new home in it. There are lots of tiny red ants coming out of keyboard every now and then and I can see them through the spaces between keys. Any solution to get rid of them ? :confused: I command them to get out of my notebook but they are very tough and didn't listen to the command. :)
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
You seem to have taken performance profiling to the extreme, most people just buy the software ANTS Performance Profiler[^] they don't actually employ ants
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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You seem to have taken performance profiling to the extreme, most people just buy the software ANTS Performance Profiler[^] they don't actually employ ants
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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But we all know that goto is bad[^]!!!
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No all goto is bad. Go to hell is quite useful at times :-D
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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Then he needs termites not ants
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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No all goto is bad. Go to hell is quite useful at times :-D
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
True, but going to hell here would be much help. Then he'd lose the laptop for good!
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow
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I am currently in country side and yesterday I left my notebook on the floor and ants seems to have found new home in it. There are lots of tiny red ants coming out of keyboard every now and then and I can see them through the spaces between keys. Any solution to get rid of them ? :confused: I command them to get out of my notebook but they are very tough and didn't listen to the command. :)
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
Try... Compressed Air Can, Vacuum, Air Blower, or put your laptop in Sunlight for few hours (lid open)... dont try to type on it until you get rid of ants, otherwise you will kill them with the key stroke and then it will be difficult to clean up the sticky key... :)
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Then he needs termites not ants
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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I am currently in country side and yesterday I left my notebook on the floor and ants seems to have found new home in it. There are lots of tiny red ants coming out of keyboard every now and then and I can see them through the spaces between keys. Any solution to get rid of them ? :confused: I command them to get out of my notebook but they are very tough and didn't listen to the command. :)
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
a good debugging tool :-D
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a good debugging tool :-D
:laugh: Looks like he got 'Ants Profiler' for free... Too late...
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I am currently in country side and yesterday I left my notebook on the floor and ants seems to have found new home in it. There are lots of tiny red ants coming out of keyboard every now and then and I can see them through the spaces between keys. Any solution to get rid of them ? :confused: I command them to get out of my notebook but they are very tough and didn't listen to the command. :)
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
I remember somebody asking the same question here in the lounge some years ago. My answer back then was (and still is): Put the notebook in a plastic bag, put in CO2 and seal it airtight. Leave your notebook in the bag overnight, that should kill the little buggers for sure and doesn't harm your computer at all (CO2 is used to kill fire near computers or other sensitive machines, where water can't be used cause it would harm the circuits - believe an old volunteer firefighter).
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
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Open up the notebook and place it in a containter. Then close the container and light a cigarette and blow the smoke into the container. Eventually the smoke should kill them off. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
Or place a candle into the container to burn up all of the oxygen and seal it off. That will teach them.
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I am currently in country side and yesterday I left my notebook on the floor and ants seems to have found new home in it. There are lots of tiny red ants coming out of keyboard every now and then and I can see them through the spaces between keys. Any solution to get rid of them ? :confused: I command them to get out of my notebook but they are very tough and didn't listen to the command. :)
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
Sounds like the so-called Rasberry Crazy Ants[^]. Which are attracted to electronics. Which they will eat.
There is water at the bottom of the ocean. My Mu[sic] My Films My Windows Programs, etc.
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But we all know that goto is bad[^]!!!
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow
Jim Crafton wrote:
But we all know that goto is bad[^]!
See also this illustration[^].
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
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I am currently in country side and yesterday I left my notebook on the floor and ants seems to have found new home in it. There are lots of tiny red ants coming out of keyboard every now and then and I can see them through the spaces between keys. Any solution to get rid of them ? :confused: I command them to get out of my notebook but they are very tough and didn't listen to the command. :)
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
They sound like raspberry crazy ants, and they actually eat the insulation on wires and stuff, and have been known to completely ruin eletrical and electronic devices. To make matters worse, they're very difficult to kill. I think your only recourse is to completely disassemble your laptop as much as possible, and use compressed air to blow them out of the system - or buy a new laptop and let the ants have the one they live in. If you pick the compressed air approach, have a bunch of large plastic bags to put the sanitized parts into so the ants can't reacquire them. Finally, stop eating food while seated at your laptop.
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
Sounds like the so-called Rasberry Crazy Ants[^]. Which are attracted to electronics. Which they will eat.
There is water at the bottom of the ocean. My Mu[sic] My Films My Windows Programs, etc.
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But you can't pull the legs off the spider! Not very realistic. :-D
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