ant inside my display.
 

Well this is a first, I am looking at an ant running around inside thats right on the inside of the display!

I use an Apple cinema display.

I guess it went through the vent.

I went to swish it off and low and behold its running around inside! It must be running around on the backlight.... Apple's newest killer hardware the cinema ant farm display.

Just hope it doesnt die and get stuck on the display, talk about a dead pixel!

Re: ant inside my display.
 

Haha! You had my wife and I crackin' up on this line.. :)

Sorry to hear about your ant, let us know what comes of the colony. Be sure to take pictures!

Jacques

That's quite a bug report.

ants in your pantz
 

Maybe if you put a piece of sugar near the vents the ant would smell the sugar (maybe smell is not the right word) and come out.

I don't think there's any high voltages in there that would short the monitor or the ant out.

tgp

Re: Re: ant inside my display.
 

I'm new at this computer stuff but...
I recommend SnapzProX. Takes the best screenshots. Then, I read about this Apple RAID thing, I think that's what keeps the critters out of my system. Finally, get rid of all the "food" clip art in MS Word. Like I said, I'm new, but I think that's what people mean when they say MS has a lot of bugs.

mike

Hmm, have you tried...
An industrial vacuum cleaner against the nearest (to the ant), vent...
OR
very slowly immersing the monitor in a brimming bathtub, the ant should climb out like rat deserting a sinking ship... (remember to unplug from your Mac first or you will ruin that as well ;))
OR
scaring ant away with desktop pic of anteater?

nice story :) dD

perhaps you should try contacting apple...that sounds like a hardware bug to me.

The ant is gone, all is well!

Where did it go??

I guess it got out in one of those vents in the back of the monitor. I assume it was walking on the backlight, craziest thing I've seen awhile for sure.

err Did you file a Bug Report with Safari :)
 

err Did you file a Bug Report with Safari :)

I remember laughing when reading this thread.
But I just found an eyelash inside my screen.
I'm very maniac when there are fingerprints on my screen... but an eyelash inside... :mad:

I searched for this thread hoping for an helpful tip, but it seems the ant just walked out by itself.
I wonder how long it takes to an eyelash to learn to walk.
With what kind of food can I attract it? Eyelash make-up?

I'll try to suck it out with a vacuum cleaner.

A friend sent me an email and when I opened it, a (graphic) ant ran all over my display. When I closed the email, the ant disappeared.

Someone at work told me he got an email that caused a (graphic) bug to follow his cursor no matter where it was, even in an app. He had to reboot to get rid of it.

Vacuum cleaner didn't work.
Any other idea?
I would appreciate something less extreme than take the display apart.

Happy me!

The eyelash inside my screen disappeared.
It was very disturbing at first (I hate even fingerprints on my screen), then I got used to it, then I forgot about it. And now it's gone!
I'm glad I didn't decided to open the screen or pay for a repair.

Maybe the ant from jhillestad's display changed home, elected my screen as new residence and decided to clean it a little.