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[Mark Johnson]

Farmer:

As long as your Ethernet cable is < 300 feet you should be fine...get 
the best cable you can buy, though. Cat7 shielded cable will cost more 
but will be much more resistant to electrical noise for a lengthy 
underground run.

I don't know how well insulated your farm shop might be, but it's 
entirely possible, if your "temperature controlled closet" is built 
correctly, that just letting the computer run all the time through the 
winter will provide enough heat to keep the distilled water and weed 
chemicals from freezing. Some experimentation might be needed to get 
insulation/venting balanced well enough for that. 9 months out of the 
year it won't be a problem anyway!

Best regards,
Mark J, former Hoosier and lifelong Boilermaker...Purdue Ag Class of 1978
Columbia, Missouri


On 4/9/2020 1:37 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> Another option I have often used in the past is dual booting... 
> Windows / Linux and just keep everything on the hard drive.
> "Somewhere" here I have a fair sized laptop hard drive that I saved 
> from a laptop that had part of the motherboard fried by lightning 
> while in my lap (Yes, I did jump about 10') The hard drive was not 
> harmed so I bought a $10 converter case (came with a USB cord 
> hard-wired into it) for it so I could use it. I used to use it for 
> booting Linux like you are doing with a flash-drive. I just keep some 
> back-up files on it now.
> The Linux I was using then was Mandriva but I just couldn't get 
> "comfortable" with it... I think now it has been abandoned about 10 years.
> One kind of amazing thing about Linux is how much complex software you 
> can run on very simple distributions without all of the bells and 
> whistles. Puppy Linux was a light one I used to play with a lot.
> One good info source is:
> https://distrowatch.com/
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> OLD TRACTOR NOTE: I'm still trying to pick out one of my old desktop 
> machines to move to the farm shop in a small temperature controlled 
> closet so I can keep tractor info on it and get online to look stuff 
> up. The smart phone screen is just too small for more than something 
> quick. Son Scott is going to run a 2 1/2" plastic commercial conduit 
> for me that will hold a Ethernet cable, a new 1/2" PEX water line and 
> an air line for the basement wood-shop.
> A plastic tote in the bottom of that closet will hold some weed 
> control chemicals to avoid freezing and a shelf will keep distilled 
> water for winter use for batteries especially for the golf cart.
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> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
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