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

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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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"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

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