Re: [silk] Pecular Behaviour of White Ants

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <silk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ramu Narayan [Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 05:46:56PM +0530]:

> their eating a particular book represent appreciation or criticism? Not
> that I care. I've had to junk about 40 books with much mourning and
> gnashing of teeth. Now will someone tell me, do they eat computers?
 
They dont - but having white ants (or any other kind of ants) crawling into
your comp is a great excuse to trash it.

This dude I know was running a server class machine in his house (he'd got
this w4r3z copy of peoplesoft / sap when that was all the rage and installed
it in that comp).

Problem is, he spends so much time in front of the comp, he even has food /
coffee sitting in front of it.

So, one fine day, his comp crashes and he calls me over to have a look at it.
I open it up and the HDD (and the innards of the comp) are _crawling_ with
red ants.

And Ramu, those termites have a really educated taste, I must say.  May I
recommend investing in some bug spray (or whatever)? :)

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