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"humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor)

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  "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-11-21 13:10 +0100
    Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-11-21 13:40 +0100
    Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computermonitor) "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-11-21 15:40 +0100
    Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer  monitor) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-11-21 16:10 +0100
    Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor) "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2020-11-21 16:20 +0100
      Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-11-21 20:00 +0100
    Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer  monitor) Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2020-11-22 12:40 +0100

#228843 — "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor)

Hey, I've got a bug in my computer monitor -- I wonder if I'm the first 
(probably not ;-).

I believe it is a fungus gnat, and it has been crawling around within my 
screen for the last 3 days.  (There must be a (probably very thin) hollow 
space between the backlight and the LCD (? or whatever) layer that actually 
displays the characters).)

I was hoping that I could crush it by pressing (reasonably gently) on the 
somewhat flexible front protective layer of the screen, but apparently not -- I 
guess I'll just have to wait him/her out -- I hope it is not a (mating) pair. 
;-)

Oh, in case someone thinks it is a computer virus, I'm about 99.99+% sure it 
is not -- the monitor runs from 3 different computers (via a KVM switch) and 
the gnat appears on all 3 and in the same position (probably with a slight 
delta to account for crawling during the KVM switching time).

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#228844

On Saturday, November 21, 2020 07:09:29 AM rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> (There must be a (probably very thin) hollow
> space between the backlight and the LCD (? or whatever) layer that actually
> displays the characters).)

Correction: On more careful examination (when there are colors on the screen), 
the hollow space must be in front of the LCD surface, behind the protective 
(clear) flexible front cover.  (I had trouble determining that against black 
text, but it is clear when there is color on the screen.)

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#228848 — Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computermonitor)

Hi,

> I believe it is a fungus gnat, and it has been crawling around within my

Or maybe a springtail ?
They are good at crawling in narrow environments.

Regrettably the "CD fungus" was never properly cultivated and identified.
Maybe you can get a close-distance camera and take some evidence photos
before Isotomurus televisificum gets extinct ?


Have a nice day :)

Thomas

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#228849 — Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor)

On 11/21/2020 06:09 AM, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> Hey, I've got a bug in my computer monitor -- I wonder if I'm the first
> (probably not ;-).
> 
> I believe it is a fungus gnat, and it has been crawling around within my
> screen for the last 3 days.  (There must be a (probably very thin) hollow
> space between the backlight and the LCD (? or whatever) layer that actually
> displays the characters).)
> 
> I was hoping that I could crush it by pressing (reasonably gently) on the
> somewhat flexible front protective layer of the screen, but apparently not -- I
> guess I'll just have to wait him/her out -- I hope it is not a (mating) pair.
> ;-)
> 
> Oh, in case someone thinks it is a computer virus, I'm about 99.99+% sure it
> is not -- the monitor runs from 3 different computers (via a KVM switch) and
> the gnat appears on all 3 and in the same position (probably with a slight
> delta to account for crawling during the KVM switching time).

"Computer bugs" are getting smaller.
The original "bug" [moth] had a 2 inch wing span ;/
[https://interestingengineering.com/the-origin-of-the-term-computer-bug]

Further references at footnoted 10-16 at
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug]

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#228851

On Sat, 21 Nov 2020, at 12:09, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:

> I was hoping that I could crush it by pressing (reasonably gently) on the 
> somewhat flexible front protective layer of the screen

- which would leave a splodge that you can't clean ...

If you turn the screen off, so there's no backlight and no heat from that
- I suppose that might take a while to cool, at least on the scale that the 
beastie is aware of - & mask the majority of the screen off from ambient 
light, can you tempt the thing to follow a focussed light (or unfocussed 
but revealed through a pinhole in a sheet of paper perhaps) off to the 
edge?


-- 
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

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#228860

On Saturday, November 21, 2020 10:17:44 AM Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> - which would leave a splodge that you can't clean ...
> 
> If you turn the screen off, so there's no backlight and no heat from that
> - I suppose that might take a while to cool, at least on the scale that the
> beastie is aware of - & mask the majority of the screen off from ambient
> light, can you tempt the thing to follow a focussed light (or unfocussed
> but revealed through a pinhole in a sheet of paper perhaps) off to the
> edge?

Interesting idea, might try that!

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#228907 — Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor)

In Germany (Europe probably) it might be a Fransenflügler or thrips.
See 
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fransenfl%C3%BCgler#Fransenfl%C3%BCgler_und_TFT-Monitore
for some suggestions. It's a german text. The english Wikipedia page doesn't 
have this section.

Regards,
Jörg.

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