{"id":25,"date":"2016-08-11T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2016-08-07T18:15:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T04:15:23","slug":"projects-and-distractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/11\/projects-and-distractions\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects and Distractions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being able to focus on positive things during severe depressive episodes is a critical thing. \u00a0For me besides my artistic projects which were more therapeutic focused I also tried to spend time working on various technology oriented projects (this blog and a revamp of my neglected for years website).<\/p>\n<p>One of the\u00a0last projects I worked on was very much off the wall. Building <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\" target=\"_blank\">VMware ESXi<\/a> systems and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/server-cloud\/solutions\/virtualization.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Hyper-V<\/a> testbed system out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intel.com\/content\/www\/us\/en\/nuc\/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\">Intel NUCs<\/a>. \u00a0In my youth I probably would have tinkered with a car, or lesser scale an RC car but these days it&#8217;s things that can overlap with my work. Perhaps owing to the same mindset that causes my depression to get me into a negative loop, I&#8217;ll typically bulldog problems in projects until I can find solutions.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-secret=\"uBwfdjDoSQ\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virten.net\/2016\/01\/vmware-homeserver-esxi-on-6th-gen-intel-nuc\/\">VMware Homeserver \u2013 ESXi on 6th Gen Intel NUC<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/www.virten.net\/2016\/01\/vmware-homeserver-esxi-on-6th-gen-intel-nuc\/embed\/#?secret=uBwfdjDoSQ\" data-secret=\"uBwfdjDoSQ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;VMware Homeserver \u2013 ESXi on 6th Gen Intel NUC&#8221; &#8212; Virten.net\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s several great resources. \u00a0While my generation of NUCs are all 5th Generation, it sounds like the newer devices can be made to work with ESXi as well and there&#8217;s an interesting community that use them for the same purpose as I was, test labs and home servers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being able to focus on positive things during severe depressive episodes is a critical thing. \u00a0For me besides my artistic projects which were more therapeutic focused I also tried to spend time working on various technology oriented projects (this blog and a revamp of my neglected for years website). One of the\u00a0last projects I worked &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/11\/projects-and-distractions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Projects and Distractions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,8],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-projects","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PG4O-p","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}