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Ants Invade iBook
xkranda writes "Seriously ... this is off the Apple Discussions site. Apparently some poor sap's iBook became infested with ants. All I have to say is ew! Ew! Ew! Ew!!!"
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Funny because a colony of Ants is kind of like Mother Nature's Beowulf Cluster.
Also, please don't mod me into oblivion for making a lame joke =)
OS X is full of bugs.
iAnts? *rimshot*
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I looked down and saw the ants on my computer.
I was like... hnuh...
The ants de-voured my computer.
It was a really good computer.
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Ellen, once you feel the ants crawling on your skin, darling, it's time to seek help.
big deal. What's next in the news: Birds fly into Windows server?
How would one "debug" this? I know, that was really lame...
Come on, editors, watch those duplicate posts.
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All I have to say is ew! Ew! Ew! Ew!!!
It's ok, you can get down off of the chair now, Daisy.
I know more than you drink.
Maybe the iBook was just on acid.
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Thats one rotten apple!
Heh, I was browsing the apple discussion boards when things slowed down to a halt... So I thought, hell, I'll just read slashdot while I'm waiting for this to clear up... Lo and behold, I found the reason. ;)
— darco
iMac: Colonize Different.
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i used to have a 7200/120 that housed a roach family. that was pretty fucking gross.
i eventually had to take everything in my house and shake it out over a plastic tarp that i ringed with roach killer. some stuff had to be submerged.
moral of the story: never pay $180 a month in rent, anywhere.
go get it
Imagine if it were infested with nmake!
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
-Bugs?!?
If anything OS X dosen't have enough!
Sets a bad example.
Go ants go!
-"I ate what?"
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I just remembered, the second (or was it third?) big game released by Maxis on the Mac, long before the PC, was "Sim Ant"...
Revenge is a dish best served with mandibles and insect appendages...
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Maybe the ants were in fact PC enthusiasts, set out to destroy every Mac in sight. Thank god this guy was able to stop the invasion in time, or this would have been the end of Apple.
VIVA LA REVOLUTION!
An Apple clear-case iBook could double as an ant farm. You'd be the envy of the office!
You're getting an infestation!
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Was this guy looking for order in chaos? Did it spit out a 216-digit number before the ants infested it? Does he have intense migraine headaches?
No they just try to sell you car insurance.
and I was building a new colony in this Thinkpad, and, uh, like someone put a floppy disk in and it was like, beep boop bop, and our colony was, like, gone...
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they're features.
Cake or Death? Cake Please!
Better than finding a worm in your Apple.
Or half a worm for that matter.
Ba bum bump
So traffic lights support genocide? I'll use that next time I go through one on red
Probably the first time a bug-induced crash was fixed just by turning on the Raid, rather than vice versa.
Come on, it's funny. I hear you snurfling...
"The pie shall be cut in half and each man shall receive.....death. I'll eat the pie."
Another Steve Jobs company attacked by Antz.
Is Dreamworks responsible?
What are the odds?
Game: Player 'Donald J Trump' now has AI skill level 'experimental'.
I once had a Beige G3 300, and a spider of some description decided that the ethernet port seemed like a pretty attractive living space.
One day, I could not for the life of me figure out why the ethernet port wasn't working. I got round the back of the computer, and noticed a little bit of what appeared to be plastic thread hanging out. I pulled, and pulled and pulled, and I swear I pulled out the longest fucking piece of spider web you'll ever see.
-- james
Mike Myers was introducing another segment of "Germany's most disturbing home videos" when his computer was found inoperable, lying on the ground. He turned it over to find....Ants!
Game: Player 'Donald J Trump' now has AI skill level 'experimental'.
I can see it now...
"A Bug's FRIED Life"
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
I had a friend who had to throw out an alarm clock because he couldn't get the ants out of it. Of all the electronics in his room, they infested that. He had a nice line of ants going to it too, like they were harvesting or something.
It was even better when he called his leasing office and told them ants infested his alarm clock, and he wanted them to do something about it. They gave him some advice, including "move your alarm clock."
24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not!
They are pretty precise.
Precise? You know, when ants wedge themselves between active leds they tend to DIE, precision now scares me...
Banaaaana!
when you leave an apple laying around.
You think you were surprised -- I'm envisioning the world's most alarmed spider as you pull thread out of its ass as fast as it can produce it. Now there's an image for ya.
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Never open a burglar alarm panel box in any food establishment if you're the slightest bit squeamish.
Napalm, daisy cutters, nukes, bio and chem weapons have no effect on Fire Ants. You can't kill them, you can just make them move. It's almost like they are natures version of lawyers.
1) Power on laptop
2) Wait for smoke and insect screams to die down
3) Ventilate Area
Slashdot comments can be accurate, highly modded, or posted quickly. Pick two.
Maybe they were stealing his time?
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
"But what a disaster that laptop was. My god. I mean, it was near biblical proportions. Well, maybe not as bad as that, and certainly not as bad as the whole big thing with, you know, General Mandible, but still, it was pretty bad. I mean, we couldn't do anything we wanted, it was like the whole thing was fighting us. When we tried to build something it would crash down on us, and the whole thing was far too hard to defend. It was totally unsecure and just about anyone could waltz right in and make themselves at home. It was just, you know, bad.
"So we tried a new iBook. We love it. It's warm, and clean, and dry, and everything just works. It's the best, really. It's saved my butt. We moved the whole colony in there last week, and we're never going back.
"My name's Z and I'm an ant."
I don't get it. What's so funny about a button that says "Get Quicktime" on it?
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
So when insects infect a Mac, can you just use ordinary Raid, or do you have to wait for Apple's soon-to-be-released xRaid? Do I detect the start of a sales campaign? 8^)
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I have Unix underpants.
Maybe they were feeding the babies my lost packets?
Maybe they were just looking to play SimAnt against the computer AI?
I fix iBooks in the computer store for Brown Uni and we had someone bring in an iBook that apparently had been vomited on copiously at some party. ALL over the keyboard, and inside the circuits. For some reason, it wasn't working! And they brought it in about 3 days after it happened....
shame on us / for all we have done / and all we ever were / just zeroes and ones
They're undocumented creatures.
Apparently uses number 6 through 101 on the list were so covered with ants as to be unreadable. Or maybe after getting to the 5. Profit! part, everything else is just redundant.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Learning to fly, Pink Floyd.
From time to time I've found myself chewing on anything I can find. Pen lids and pencils are one thing, and I caught myself nibbling the corner of a NIC a few months ago. I can't exactly describe the flavour. It wasn't offensive, more "interesting". "Interesting" might just be enough to sucker ants in. -b.
I think it's pretty obvious why the ants went for the iBook. Whenever i go on a picnic, the ants always go after the fruit first, especially APPLES. I'm going to get modded off the board for this.
You like your new Mac more than you like me, don't you, Dave? Dave? I asked...She said Yes.
If they get together with The guys from Mainframe, I think we might have a hit.
OS Software is like love: The best way to make it grow is to give it away.
The reason that ants will infest electronics is because they are attracted by the heat generated.
Excellent! Now all I need to do is put electric baseboard heaters around my outside walls and the li'l bastards will march right into fiery death!
Trolling is a art,
What he doesn't know is, his marquee selection tool is realling a bunch of ants square-dancing.
Just set up a RAID and you'll be fine.
Thank you! I'll be here all night!
Keep your packets off my GNU/Girlfriend!
When you ask a Mac user to set up a "honeypot" machine.
This got me thinking about my laptop. I got it for free from a government project (take obselete computers from companies, give them to schools), so I have no idea who owned it. And I'm getting paranoid about the thing now. What if the fan doesn't work because of dead insects blocking it? What if ants have been eating away at the speaker cables, causing really bad screeching noises to come from it? What if my friend's CD drive is locked shut by a corpse?
Uggggh.
Try pouring a cup of Kerosene into the openings of their mound. If that alone doesn't kill them, light it!
That proves even roaches have standards...
I tried every decent and legal way I could think of to resolve the issue w/the business before I rented the chicken suit
When do ants invade a computer?
When they know it doesn't have RAID hard disks.
A friend's old Powerbook (500 series) became a hive. They didn't know it, but all of the ants that had been infesting their kitchen were roosting in their laptop set up on the kitchen counter. When the machine finally died from the generations of life that had lived in their machine, they had another friend open it up and discovered that it was packed full of ant-hive. The ants themselves had moved on by the time they had the machine looked at, as it had been turned off since it began to malfunction.
Further, I myself have a power supply for my speaker system that from time to time becomes infested with the tenacious little bastards. This thing is packed with them, I tell you. To get rid of them, I always just unplug the power supply for a few days.
[Cmdr Taco] The next posting was sent in by Lucas Bamberger of Mac-baden. Here he has come across an Apple Powerbook, which in itself is not so disturbing. Until it is turned over to reveal... ANTS! ANTS! ANTS!
[Cowboy Neal]
Now that's an ant farm of a different color!
iBooks have more ant_ennas :-)