<p>Perhaps influenced by industrial mandatory practices, I wanted to add an emergency button to my home server in order to shut it down fast. For example in case of power shortage, I’d like to trigger a clean shutdown before the UPS runs out of power and without requiring a screen or keyboard attached. Therefore I bought an USB “emergency” button.
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<h4>Example of USB emergency button</h4>
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Rummaging IT fields since the 8-bits personal computers era.
