It’s been two weeks today since we moved into the new house. Just thought I’d say that. No, the IT sit­u­a­tion isn’t loads bet­ter, but I’m work­ing on it. Between assess­ments and other stuff.

If this stu­pid HP thing would play nice with hpoj and FreeBSD, I’d be sweet (well, you know, still gotta learn OpenL­DAP and the rest of it, but sweeter), but of course that’s not likely to hap­pen in a hurry. I’ve decided if it still isn’t work­ing by this week­end I’m going to revert to try­ing with Par­al­lel cables. Tis a sad day indeed.

In other news, the Com­man­der sys­tem has been work­ing okay, but there are more than a hand­ful of moments of frus­tra­tion when try­ing to get other devices to play nice on the sys­tem (e.g. not sanc­tioned HX308 phones), so for the moment we’ve installed a cord­less hand­set in par­al­lel to the Com­man­der sys­tem (that is, not on a sys­tem port) — that means it’s out of reach of the rest of the PBX, but at least it can make phone calls (which is good, see­ing it’s cord­less and the HX308 things all aren’t). Some issues with line noise, but then the cord­less thing is cur­rently con­nected by a socket hang­ing out of a wall con­nected in about 30 sec­onds by yours tru­ely. Oh, and if you’re from Aus­tel, I just made all that up.

Tags: Commander, FreeBSD, PBX