{"id":52,"date":"2011-03-03T06:19:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T11:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unfortunateshit.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2011-03-03T06:19:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T11:19:45","slug":"how-hard-is-it-to-manufacture-a-power-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unfortunateshit.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"How hard is it to manufacture a power button?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So over the last couple of days, I have been building a new VMWare server \/ NAS in my basement.\u00a0 This involves ordering and assembling probably 50 different components.\u00a0 One of those components is the case that everything mounts to.\u00a0 Last night I completed mounting everything in the case, and began testing.\u00a0 I could not, for the life of me, get this server to turn on.\u00a0 Since I had assembled everything over a couple day span, I figured I must have missed or forgotten about something.\u00a0 I start double checking all of my work, and I can&#8217;t find anything wrong with it.\u00a0 Finally, I get frustrated and just short the pins for the power button with a screwdriver.\u00a0 The server immediately powers on!\u00a0 WTF?\u00a0 So I test the power button with an ohmmeter.\u00a0 It reads about 130ohms.\u00a0 That means the button <em>sort of works<\/em>, but isn&#8217;t quite completely making a connection.\u00a0 How the hell does that even happen?\u00a0 How hard is it to manufacture a power button?<\/p>\n<p>So my options are this:\u00a0 I either disassemble the entire server and return the case, for a new one (a huge amount of work), I install a secondary power button and stick it to the front of the case (cheese), or I just deal with a server that doesn&#8217;t have a power button.\u00a0 I have the server configured to automatically power-on when it receives power from the wall, but having to unplug the power cord to shutdown the server is not exactly what I had in mind.\u00a0 What a pain in the ass!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and to be clear, this is a rackmount case, with a very unique power button.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not something I can just purchase and replace.\u00a0 What a pain in the ass!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So over the last couple of days, I have been building a new VMWare server \/ NAS in my basement.\u00a0 This involves ordering and assembling probably 50 different components.\u00a0 One of those components is the case that everything mounts to.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unfortunateshit.com\/?p=52\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unfortunateshit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unfortunateshit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unfortunateshit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unfortunateshit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unfortunateshit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unfortunateshit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/www.unfortunateshit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unfortunateshit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unfortunateshit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unfortunateshit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}