Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> [11-07-10 08:12]: > On 07/10/2011 03:23 AM, Dale wrote: > >Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>On 07/10/2011 12:59 AM, john wrote: > >>> > >>>Help. > >>> > >>>I have tried everything to remove thunderbugs which are causing > >>>havoc > >>>behind my screen. Small black mites have taken over xorg-server! > >>> > >>>rm -r thunderbugs > >> > >>I'm having trouble understanding what the issue is. I assume you're > >>not talking about insects stuck on the TFT panel of your monitor. > >>That > >>what exactly are you talking about? > > > >I was wondering the same thing. I was to chicken to ask because I > >thought it might be some fancy new software that I haven't heard about > >yet. Could it be thunderbird? That's the only thing I could find in > >the > >portage tree. > > > >At least I wasn't the only one confused. Sort of had that a lot here > >lately. :/ > > Well, I guess it's really thunderbugs then :-P Sometimes very small > insects get inside the monitor, and get fried when they walk on the TFT > panel. They're visible and pretty much equivalent to a bunch of dead > pixels. It's virtually impossible to get them out again. > > This is the reason I never bought a TFT monitor with cooling slits on > it; only tightly closed ones with external power supplies. No insects > can get in that way. > >
There are sealed ones, too. Best regards, mcc
