Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!taco!mcnc!ecsgate!ecsvax!dlugose From: dlugose@uncecs.edu (Dan Dlugose) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Bug in my new LC!!!!! Message-ID: <1991Apr1.223759.22242@uncecs.edu> Date: 1 Apr 91 22:37:59 GMT References: <691@ssdc?> <1991Mar30.185522.19672@mcs.drexel.edu> Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 30 In article <1991Mar30.185522.19672@mcs.drexel.edu> tjferrar@mcs.drexel.edu (Jason Ferrara) writes: >In article <691@ssdc?> mbrenton@ssdc (mike brenton) writes: >>I've got a bug in my brand new LC. I don't mean that there is something >>wrong, it works great. I mean that there is a family of frigging spiders >>living in the damn CPU. It was shipped to me via Virginia Tech. What can >>I do about this since it cant be good for the machine??????? >> >Open the machine up and brush the spiders out, or if you're feeling nasty, >vacuum them out. (Hey, I used to have mice living in a set of 8-inch floppy >drives). > >- J >House of the Techno-Discordians It seems odd that someone would ask for advice about spiders; but here is my $.02: a) What do those spiders eat? Generally spiders eat samller bugs. Maybe the spiders are better than the alternatives, like perhaps dust mites. Or maybe they eat program bugs. b) Remember that these sentient beings were undoubtably your benefactors in a previous life. Tell them politely that you have found a nicer place for them to live... Dan Dlugose -- Dan Dlugose Internet: dlugose@uncecs.edu UNC Educational Computing Service Box 12035, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2035