{"id":248,"date":"2008-02-09T01:11:25","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T08:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2010-05-05T00:53:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T07:53:07","slug":"messing-with-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Messing With Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to mess with my computers quite a lot. I enjoy upgrading and  tinkering, and it&#8217;s actually quite relaxing for me. As many of you know,  I have a Windows Home Server that is awesome. It is no less than  revolutionizing the way I store and access data. I am still tweaking it  and adding storage, but it&#8217;s a fun project.  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/redvsblue.com\/assets\/images\/emoticons\/smiley0.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However,  tonight I learned a few things about myself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Things I am good  at:<\/strong><br \/>\n1) Creating five units of work by attempting to skip a step  that saves one unit of work.<br \/>\n2) Not taking even a moment to complete  that skipped step, regardless of how much extra work it created.<br \/>\n3)  Stubbornly completing the now overly complex task, even after realizing  it won&#8217;t come close to solving the original problem.<\/p>\n<p>I had begun  to grow frustrated with my otherwise awesome Hiper 580w modular power  supply. It did not come with quite enough molex and SATA attachments to  connect all my drives and still route the cables in a non-insane  fashion. So, I started to wonder if the Antec 500w PSU that came with my  server&#8217;s case wouldn&#8217;t be a better option. After a quick check of the  power specs and run-down of the connectors, I decide to swap it in.<\/p>\n<p>Power  supplies are big. To make a long story short, I ended up having to  remove two hard drive cages and a CPU cooler to accomplish this. And I  did so without ever breaking down and unhooking the server so I could  put it on the floor. FYI, my server lives in the corner of our office,  and I had about two square feet of work space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My back hurts  now.<\/strong> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/redvsblue.com\/assets\/images\/emoticons\/smiley5.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And  initially, it created a bigger cable mess than I had before, but with  the creative placement of a few twist ties, I resolved it, and like heck  I&#8217;m putting the old power supply back in after all that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s  fine.<\/strong> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/redvsblue.com\/assets\/images\/emoticons\/smiley7.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to mess with my computers quite a lot. I enjoy upgrading and tinkering, and it&#8217;s actually quite relaxing for me. As many of you know, I have a Windows Home Server that is awesome. It is no less than revolutionizing the way I store and access data. I am still tweaking it and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}