John Deere and fencing

[rockinmywaypa]

John Deere and fencing

Just now I was looking at the fencing post in the forums, Charlais gave some real good instuctions for testing ground rods so I thought I'd print off the page and save it till spring. Hit print button, printer starts but what comes out is that advertising from JD and double click that is being complained about in another post. Yes I'am also on xp pro and I am no pro at figuring out how computers work so it is a frustration for sure.

 

[bczoom]

Re: John Deere and fencing

No idea what caused that...

Can I offer an alternative?
Instead of printing (because I'll never find it come spring), I pull it into a word document and save to my PC in an appropriate directory. Reference and/or print when necessary.

Open a blank word document.
Come to the TBN thread.
If the thread is multiple pages, be sure to select "show all", then:
Press CTRL+A (select all)
Press CTRL+C (copy)
tab over to Word
Press CTRL+V (paste).
then save it.

 

[getut]

Re: John Deere and fencing

Download Mozilla firefox and install the adblock plugin. That combination is way better than Internet explorer and any popup blocker combo.

Ads that think they own your computer can be stamped out.
If you are interested PM me and I'll help you.

John Deere ads on a tractor site = OK
Any ad hosted from a doubleclick server (even John Deere) = Too intrusive with the scripting and tracking they do.

 

[getut]

Re: John Deere and fencing

Here is what your screen can look like with adblock and firefox. No flashies whatsoever.

 

[Cliff_Johns]

Re: John Deere and fencing

Which is what is looks like if you turn active scripting off in IE. Note though that you may have trouble filling in posts since TBN uses some of these features to do things like include URLs inline and the like.

Cliff

 

[shoppintractors]

Re: John Deere and fencing

<font color="blue"> so I thought I'd print off the page and save it till spring. Hit print button, printer starts but what comes out is that advertising from JD </font>

Scroll down to the bottom of the page, on the left...below the moderators, click on "Print Thread" another window will open...now do the 'Print' thing. Clicking on "Favorite Thread" will also 'save' it here on TBN under "My home."

<font color="blue">Charlais gave some real good instuctions for testing ground rods so I thought I'd print off the page.... </font>

If it's a single post you want to print....at the bottom of each post there is a "Print Post" feature.....

Don

 

[JayC]

Re: John Deere and fencing

Another thing you can do is manually highlight the text you want to print. Then, click File - Print. At the dialog box click the bullet next to Selection in the Print Range pane.

 

[getut]

Re: John Deere and fencing

With Firefox it looks just like the screenshot I took, but everything works as it is supposed to. Scripting is enabled. Firefox natively lets you disable scripts ability to resize windows, disable their ability to turn off features like the back button, print ability or entire toolbar, while still letting javascript that doesn't try to do that work normally. Firefox can be instructed to lie to the web server and tell it that cookies have been allowed normally. It lets the server set a cookie, but then deletes it at the end of your browsing session. So no tracking ability is given to the website.

Adblock, the plugin, even lets you filter for offending javascript, and flash based ads not messing with anything else that you want to let through.

I usually don't bother messing with static, non-moving, no sound type ads. Those don't offend, but the others do.

Dont get me wrong. I'm not entirely against IE, but Microsoft has to please both sides. If they give users too many features to tailor their browsing experience, then their corporate customers who want to force ads at you, give them flak. If they don't give enough control then the end users give them flak. They catch it from both sides.

The Mozilla project has only one side to please. The users, and they give you all the tools to make it pleasurable and controllable by YOU. Not the companies.

 

[rockinmywaypa]

Re: John Deere and fencing

Thanks for all replys. I'll check them all out. At christmas I got a printer which was missing the driver disc and printed instructions, had to download a driver off internet and tried to print off some of the startup instuctions. Well the page was pdf form and I could not get the thing to print it off because it said it didn't recognise the file. This was just to get some instuctions that I could read. I really don't like these wonderful things.