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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbugs
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Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> [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