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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Amiduffer on May 21, 2008, 09:13:15 PM
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Hi all. The other day, I was scanning some items with my A3000 and had a visit from some nature.
(http://www.termite.com/images/wolfspider150.gif)
Imagine seeing one of these appearing on your keyboard (while its in your lap):-o. Well, I grabbed my pliers to order to grab it, and it then slipped under the keypad keys. After taking the keyboard apart and squirting some cleaner, it finally ran out, allowing me to squash the little bugger. :python:
Since I had the thing apart, I did a thorough cleaning, since it needed it.
Anyone else had this kind of experience with unwelcome visitors in your computers?
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Yes. I had a friend who fried his motherboard...well ants did anyways. He came home from work and there were a trail of ants climbing up the telephone cable inside the internal modem. Computer never worked after that!
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I had a spider short out my C64 internal power regulation area a long time ago, back when I was living in NM.
That's the last time I allowed wee beasties free pass into my stuff.
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Sounds like Hitchcocks "The Birds" on the insect level. I think I read that the first computer bug was an actual insect that got fried by one of those old room-sized vacuum tube computers.
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I was typing away today, when I felt a tickle under my chin. Yup, a small spider was crawling up my neck. Spring is nice, but stuff crawls out of the woodwork. We probably all swallow a few spiders every year in our sleep.
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Still, be glad for spiders. They eat other more annoying bugs =).
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odin wrote:
Still, be glad for spiders. They eat other more annoying bugs =).
Like mothers in-law? Wasn't there an "Amazing Stories" episode about some giant spider in a warehouse?
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Hmm, well I'm a bit biased... I have a pet tarantula, so I like spiders. And, as odin said, they eat other more annoying (and dangerous) bugs like mosquitos, etc.
Oh, and yes, the average person inhales/swallows a number of spiders/ other small insects evey year, not sure the exact number, but around 8-10 per year, IIRC.
(http://www.tarantulas.us/forums/images/smilies/tarantulas/T-mo-mad.gif)
(Just had to add that, a Tarantula 'smilie' from my other favorite forum, tarantulas.us)
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allowing me to squash the little bugger
:boohoo:
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After taking the keyboard apart and squirting some cleaner, it finally ran out, allowing me to squash the little bugger.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!! :boohoo:
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This whole thread should be deleted as it is giving me the creeps.
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At least these bugs are easy to detect...
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A6000 wrote:
This whole thread should be deleted as it is giving me the creeps.
Would this thread be considered a personal attack on spiders?
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A6000 wrote:
This whole thread should be deleted as it is giving me the creeps.
Me too! I just know that when I'm asleep snoring with my mouth open tonight a spider is gonna start decending down from the ceiling on its webbing. Gulp!
I was computing the other evening when a monster of a spider dropped onto my shoulder. I've also found giant ones in boxes of old Amiga books. The scary thing is that when you find a big dead spider it is usually only the skin that has been shed by one. This means that it is really still alive but now even bigger :nervous:
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LOL
"Well, I grabbed my pliers"
Which is the normal tool for chasing spiders around with, everybody knows.
I have seen little critters run in or out of electronics but never a pop or short from them, lucky for both of us I guess.
:lol:
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Yeah iv had little ones inside my PC once (out of storage), its still fine today too.
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Just so long as it's not a brown recluse spider... their bites are nasty! If you live in the southern USA...
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Brown_recluse_spider%2C_Loxosceles_reclusa.jpg/250px-Brown_recluse_spider%2C_Loxosceles_reclusa.jpg)
(http://thefuntimesguide.com/images/blogs/brown_recluse_spider_bite_Day9.jpg)
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Wolf Spider
Venom toxicity - the bite of the Wolf Spider is poisonous but not lethal. Although non-aggressive, they bite freely if provoked and should be considered dangerous to humans. The bite may be very painful. First aid and medical attention should be sought as soon as possible, particularly as to children or the elderly. Spider Identification - an adult is 1/2 inch to more than 1 inch in body length - mottled gray to brown in color, with a distinct Union Jack impression on its back. The female carries it's young on its back. Habitat - this spider is a ground dweller, with a burrow retreat. It has a roving nocturnal lifestyle to hunt their prey and can move very rapidly when disturbed. Commonly found around the home, in garden areas with a silk lined burrow, sometimes with a lid or covered by leaf litter or grass woven with silk as a little fence around the rim of the burrow.
Not something I want to share living quarters with! Squish em. There's plenty of prey outside. :lol:
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Others have more serious problems; link to computerworld (http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9086098)
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I have a number of these guys living in my apartment:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Phidippus_audax3.JPG)
I'd guess there are at least a dozen of those suckers inhabiting my space. It's quite common to see them crawling up the wall or across my desk. I never kill or remove them. Usually when I see one darting across the wall it's after a silverfish or a mosquito and that's fine with me.
Spiders serve a purpose (eating bugs and feeding cats). I don't buy that spiders crawl into peoples mouths during sleep. Spiders are scared to death of anything bigger than them that moves, there's no way they want to crawl into a giants noisy blow hole at night, c'mon.
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Some time ago I had a cochroache going out of my 5 1/4 disk drive. (I still have one to exchange data with my TRS-80...)
It came out, ran over my computer and when I was goin to smash it, it ran to the drive again. I had to disassemble my PC to get it
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koaftder wrote:
Spiders serve a purpose (eating bugs and feeding cats).
:lol:
Too bad. We could have used some of your friends at our old office. The silverfish were pretty bad there. Our apartment is relatively bug free thank goodness. A couple of apartments ago, I had an ant infestation similar to that mess in Texas. Thank god they stuck to the kitchen although that was pretty horrible.
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umm I see where this is going; you just wont be 'current' anymore:
OS3.9 - check
accelerator & gobs of fast ram - check
favorite killer apps and game - check
killer spider from South America - check
:-D
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Yeah, one of the first places I lived on my own was _infested_ with black widow spiders. At any point during the night, I could flick on the light and there would be 3 or 4 crawling around. The last few weeks I was there, I slept outside in my car. :/
It was miserable, especially since I used to have quite a spider phobia. (I spent a few years catching, examining, and reading up on them in order to conquer my fear.) Koafter is right, after a while you realize they want nothing to do with us... all they want is to dart around eating other insects, which is pretty cool.
These days I just leave them alone, or put them outside, unless it's something potentially harmful like a black widow.
Now... centipedes, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CL2hetqpfg) on the other hand... doubt I'll ever get used to those. ;-)
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Spiders are fine by me, they eat mosquitos which I hate far more. We have quite a variety around my house. Zippers, black widows, brown recluse, serveral types of garden spiders, green ones, brown ones, striped ones... they don't seem to bother any one thankfully. Besides, bugs actually own the planet you know. They just allow us humans to live here rent free because we taste good. :lol:
Plaz
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....black widows....3 or 4 crawling around.
Now that would be enough to put me out too. I can find them several places around my yard, but definitely never where I sleep. My mom was bitten by one while sleeping many many years ago. That caused a trip to the hospital for a bit of spider anti-venom. I guess they are just very painful for the average adult, but potentially deadly for small children or if you're alergic at all.
Plaz
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I think he's having us on and his USB hardware just fell out. HA HA HA, mister jokeyjokemeister. ;-)
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Nature inside computers -
Some of the machines we've repaired from our component schools have had -
Dead mouse inside. (Also, others with mouse droppings, etc.)
Ants inside on some form of sticky substance.
Spiders webs. (Must have been looking for the WWW.)
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Jumping spiders are the only spiders allowed to share my domicile. Every time I visit my family in the mid-west, I wind up with some kind of spider bite on a leg. It swells up very large with a huge puss-crater in the center. Visit the doctor, get some antibiotics to prevent infection, and let it run its course. Very gross.
One of the apartment complexes in which I lived after first moving to Tallahassee had a brown widow infestation. Luckily not inside, but all around the outside.