Hi all...
I have an insect INSIDE my screen....no joke!!
just appeared tonight???
http://vimeo.com/13468692 - Video...
He may be looking for a byte to eat.
yes well i tried knocking it out with the curser....
the jokes have started!!! bring them on....but this is real!!! I assure you....
I thinks its gone?? it crawled to the top of the screen into the black...so i gently squeezed
haven't seen it since!!!
Google the post title and you will find other people who have had this!
fingers crosses it doesn't die in the middle of the screen!!
In the old days we used to have insects running about inside our SLR viewfinders and the powerful magnification of same could make them look nasty and dangerous. They'd be quite sharp when they scurried about on the fresnel screen. Apparently they lived on shutter curtain fabric but a spell in the fridge would kill them off.
tom.
well no sign of it this morning!! is this a common thing??
i had never heard of anything like this until i google it, and saw other people having the same issue??
I had a small insect crawling about behind the front glass of my Hitachi monitor a while ago. I resisted the temptation to squish it, fearing it would leave an imprint as 'screenkill' !
Re-appeared several times over a couple of days, then finally wandered off, never to be seen again.
A colleague reported a similar event - so perhaps not so uncommon?
i just didn't want it to give up bang centre of my screen!! acting like a dead pixel...
It's not an insect, it's a bug
I believe this is quite common. I have a dead one in my Dell 2407 screen. The other day another live one was crawling about - now gone. "Thunderbugs?" - who appear more common in certain combinations of warm moist weather?
When I first see them, my heart sinks, until I wipe the screen and find out if they're outside :) or inside :(...
How strange.
I too have a bug crawling around inside my Mac Book Pro screen.
Have you got a name for yours yet?
Mine's been there since 2000, so it must be the mellium bug. Or great-great-great grandson of same.
mine seems to have found a new hone....
can you change your desktop to a nice big spider picture and see if he gets scared and clears off?
I have quite a few of the little buggers inside my Dell., about 8 between the lcd and the backlight. They happen in hot summers, I see them crawl about for a few days, then they stop. One of these days, when I've nothing else to do, I'll see if I can find out how to dismantle it and clean them out. I've also got a few on a 20" lcd tv that I use as an external monitor.
http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/
"Spider Productions" eh, Foxy!
Oh no! there's one in the forum... [img] http://www.headspin.plus.com/store/bug.gif[/img]
