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<p>Farmer:</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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!<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Mark J, former Hoosier and lifelong Boilermaker...Purdue Ag Class of
1978<br>
Columbia, Missouri
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<div dir="ltr">Another option I have often used in the past is
dual booting... Windows / Linux and just keep everything on the
hard drive.
<div>"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.</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>One good info source is:</div>
<div><a href="https://distrowatch.com/" moz-do-not-send="true">https://distrowatch.com/</a><br>
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<div>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.</div>
<div>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.</div>
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aka "farmer"<br>
Central Indiana USA<br>
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