[AT] Remembering

Mon Mar 2 11:56:38 PST 2015

I don't have any of those problems... but then I don't click on just
anything.
Folks that play a lot of Facebook games seem to have a lot of problems.
I have been running Google Chromium for some time with no problems. That is
the Linux version of Chrome. I also run the Ad Blocker Plus. I used to run
Firefox and still do for a few things where I like the way it renders some
sites better but Chromium runs a lot faster for me.
I have been playing with another one called Slim-boat which seem decent (I
don't recall if it is Linux only or not).
I have been running Linux for years now and will never go back to windows.
Never... My old wide-screen laptop had a hinge breaking so I bought this
one so I would have it in the hospital with me in November 2013. Silly me,
I thought I would be able to function mentally after the surgery.
:-)
It came with Windows 8 on it and the third time it crashed it lost a good
sized picture file I was working with. I hated the way it worked anyway so
as soon as I could function I cleaned it out and installed Ubuntu on it.
It's not for everybody but I like it (me and Sheldon Cooper).
:-)
I follow a few old tractor groups on Facebook and one thing I do like about
it is the way it is so easy to display pictures. Some forums (using the
Shopsmith Forum as an example) have a picture size limit so if I want to
post a picture most of the time I have to re-size the picture before
uploading it. I usually use:
http://www.resizemypicture.com/
On a Facebook group you just upload about anything and it is re-sized as it
is posted.
Most of the time the groups don't have all of the drama and crap because
there somebody is usually "in charge" unlike the almost free-for-all
regular status feed.
I may not be fully productive yet but I can follow groups...
:-)
One downside to those groups is that they seem to post a lot of nice
pictures but often with only four word descriptions, not many stories,
"here is my tractor" type of thing.
 :-)

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Gene Dotson <gdotfly at gmail.com> wrote:

>     I bought my new? (refurbished) computer last June and tried to et it
> up.
> Was so frustrated with it, I gave up on it. Pop up ads and ads for programs
> to protect  my computer came up so fast I couldn't click them off as fast
> as
> they came up. Finally after is sit for several months, I was determined to
> conquer it. Did a little research and located a program called (Spyhunter4)
> and downloaded it. Cost $42.95 or so. Started it up and first run it
> identified more than 1850 threats. Took over 4 hours to run. Threats were
> mostly adware and spyware.
> Restarted the computer and all was well. I am running Windows 7. Money for
> this was well spent as I was just a short way from using it for target
> practice.
>
>     Also have a couple more cleaning programs that I run. Those too are
> paid
> programs. The free programs don't clean as completely.
>
>                         Gene
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rlgoss at twc.com
> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 12:21 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Remembering
>
> I run the same programs with the same setup on five different devices
> through the same router, same ISP, etc, but Facebook reacts differently on
> all five of them!  I've gone into the settings on Facebook to make make
> them
> as similar to each other as I can, but different software/hardware
> combinations simply act differently.
>
>
>
> Larry
> ---- Ron Cook <ron at lakeport-1.com> wrote:
> > Ralph,
> >      I certainly don't know for sure, but it just might depend on how
> > you are connected to the internet.  Who your isp is, etc.  I would find
> > it hard to believe that if you connected to the same youtube video as
> > me, you would first see an ad from a car dealer in Sioux City.  All I
> > know is that I had no problems with trakkers, etc. until this machine
> > was logged into facebook.  My old machine on my office desk that has
> > been online for probably 20 years does not do such things.  It has never
> > been logged into any social media or google stuff which I also try to
> > avoid.
> >      Tractor content......I need to go to the family farm and trailer
> > the John Deere M here to my shop today to finish a rewire job.  I think
> > you are letting a little snow sneak in here again.:-)
> >
> > Ron Cook
> > Salix, IA
> >
> > On 3/2/2015 9:55 AM, Ralph Goff wrote:
> > > On 3/2/2015 9:17 AM, Ron Cook wrote:
> > >> I have a highly educated liberal adult daughter that stopped by here
> > >> and
> > >> immediately used my new computer to get on facebook a few years ago.
> > >> Ruined my new computer.  I still have not got all the spyware, etc out
> > >> of it.  Constant problems.  Two other computers online here with no
> > >> problems at all.  If I catch anyone attempting to get on facebook with
> > >> them, firearms could be involved.
> > >>
> > >> Ron Cook., Salix, IA
> > > Ron, I've been on there for years and every day. Great entertainment
> and
> > > zero problems.
> > > Maybe google chrome browser is the reason? Or maybe it is like that old
> > > saying,
> > >    "you can pick your friends but not your family"? I even started my
> > > own
> > > Sask. history page
> > >    there a while back and got nothing but positive feedback and a lot
> of
> > > "likes". As I said before
> > >    facebook is, at least for me,  where you meet up with people who
> > > share
> > > common interests.
> > >    Much like ATIS, except with a few ads. Which apparently
> > > I could get rid of if I tried. I'll look into  that.
> > >
> > > Ralph in Sask.
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Francis Robinson
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Central Indiana USA
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