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.
Run some code that causes the laptop to heat up - any CPU/disk intensive app will do. The ants don't like the extra heat and will start streaming out.
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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.
Put the notebook on a table. Put a pile of sugar about a foot in front of the keyboard near the edge of the table. When they come out to get the sugar wait until there are several of them then cover them and push the sugar and ants off the edge into a sack or other enclosure. Dump them outside or somewhere else they will be out of the house. Repeat this until they are gone. If there are any left after a few iterations you may use a mist of diluted chrysanthemum oil to kill them. You can get it at a pet control store. Sorry to ruin the comical responses with a real one. Somebody had to do it. Here is a comical one a la Dale Enhardt to fit in: "Cover its legs with gasoline and light it on fire"
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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.
When ants get in my cereal boxes, I get a dinner plate, put some soapy water on it, put a bowl in the middle of the dinner plate, and balance the cereal box on the bowl. There is no way for the ants to leave without crossing the soapy water, and they will drown when they try. Eventually they will all be gone, as they have needs not provided by the cereal box and soapy water. Some periodic puffs of compressed air keep them stirred up, and increase the chances of them accidentally falling off the box.
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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.
Hmm.. that's a novel debugging task ya got there.. your last name Lovelace by any chance? :) Bake or freeze the laptop. Check its max and min storage temps and take it to one or the other for long enough to reach that all the way deep inside, then keep it there for at least a few hours or maybe overnight. Chances are, they won't be able to survive 24-48 hours of either, and probably not even more than a few hours of the high temp limit. Personally, I'd chill it overnight if it could withstand the freezer, but they might be able to survive that. Baking in your oven would probably be better, but ovens are difficult to control at such low temps, and cooking it too hot might kill the laptop too. Or you can just wait them out. They don't live forever without food and water, and may not do too much damage before they die. Just make sure to keep moving the laptop from place to place to prevent them from being able to import food and water back to a nest inside. Or perhaps encourage that by setting some poison ant bait out next to it for a few days and let them transport it back inside to kill the others.
patbob
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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 the notebook up and use a can of compressed air to shoot them out. You could always try a vacuum as well.
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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.
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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.
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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 heard this solution works if you get ants in your car. Place sugar under the car and wait overnight. In the morning the ants would be drawn to the sugar. You might try placing some sugar overnight near the notebook. Never tried it myself...
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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.
1.Use the dry chemical power available in the local shop.. will help, it is effective 2.Pack in the Notebook in airtight vaccum bag.. ants will die soon
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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 had exactly this problem with my laptop circa 1997. The ants had set up a nest in the harddrive, which I discovered by pulling the machine apart. I brushed out the ant nest gently, and liberally sprayed surface spray all over the outside of the hard drive, including electronics, allowed it to dry, then reassembled the laptop. Problem solved. YMMV.
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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.
Get a vaccum with a brush extension and suck the little buggers out. :wtf: